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Welcome to the Community Show

By Roger Vize

The Community Show is a one hour podcast focusing on activism and campaigning is recorded live every Monday at 5pm. The show aims to provide up-to-date news about community campaigns, actions and events from around Australia, including interviews with members of the climate action group community. …read more      

Seattle Celebrates Early Rollout of Light-Rail Expansion

By Sandy Smith

Crowds rung in Sound Transit’s new ULink light-rail extension in Seattle Saturday. (Credit: Sound Transit)

Our weekly “New Starts” roundup of new and newsworthy transportation projects worldwide.

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5 Beautiful Books That Belong on Every Urbanist’s Coffee Table

By Anna Clark

Transit Maps of the World by Mark Ovendon tells the fascinating stories of transit systems that collided with history.

These are the kind of books that aren’t meant to be read straight through, but rather, paged through luxuriously over many years. They are gorgeous enough to grace a coffee table …read more      

Iceberg wipes out 150,000 penguins

About 150,000 adélie penguins died after a huge iceberg grounded near their colony in Antarctica, forcing them to make a… …read more      

Scottish Salmon to get sustainable wheat feed

It’s not quite Marmite, but Scottish salmon are to be fed a type of yeast extract to make them more… …read more