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• City using technology to remove snow, avoid blowing budget (Chicago Sun Times, November 12, 2009)
• Alternative energy projects stumble on a need for water‎ (New York Times, September 29, 2009)
• Clean water laws are neglected, at a cost in suffering (New York Times, September 12, 2009)
• Boulder's SmartGridCity brings Xcel up to speed on electric picture (Denver Post, September 9, 2009)
• Cities turn off streetlights to save money (USA Today, August 27, 2009)
• Deep in the wilderness, power companies wade in (Wall Street Journal, August 21, 2009)
• More use grazing sheep, goats against invasive weeds, vines (USA Today, July 2, 2009)
• Can Twitter help fix San Francisco's potholes? (Christian Science Monitor, June 6, 2009)
• Bringing efficiency to the infrastructure (New York Times, April 29, 2009)
• Power, and pitfalls, of an electrical smart grid (Los Angeles Times, April 27, 2009)
• Oregon's water issues run deep (Oregonian, April 25, 2009)
• New park under the new bridge (Providence Journal, April 23, 2009)
• Old water pipes becoming hard to ignore (New York Times, April 17, 2009)
• Companies pretty up prices to win stimulus projects (New York Times, March 28, 2009)
• City may replace parking meters with solar-powered kiosks (American-Statesman, March 3, 2009)
• Village automates water meter reading through Wi-Fi (Sun-Sentinel, February 11, 2009)
• As the economy slumps, so does trash (Los Angeles Times, January 25, 2009)
• Goodbye, icons; hello, infrastructure: Obama inaugurates a new era of architecture (Chicago Tribune, January 24, 2009)
• Roundabouts: efficient or annoying? (New York Times, December 30, 2008)
• Innovative stormwater plan with special pavement proposed (Tribune-Review Greensburg, PA, December 12, 2008)
• Rivers looking attractive for energy (New York Times, December 1, 2008)
• Sidewalk stanzas: A public arts project in St. Paul, Minn., inscribes poems on neighborhood sidewalks (Christian Science Monitor, November 18, 2008)
• Momentum might be building to build up the U.S. infrastructure (Baltimore Sun, November 17, 2008)
• As a road to a better economy, an old idea gains ground (Los Angeles Times, November 9, 2008)
• Hoping for a green renewal, Mich. city will turn sewage to fuel (Washington Post, November 2, 2008)
• Road salt shortage puts cities in a pinch (USA Today, October 5, 2008)