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  • Posted By: aullman @ 07/26/2008 8:12:08 PM

    There is another option besides moving back to the city to fight the high cost of gas. Rather than move your home, you can move your office. The office does not have to move for everyone ??? just you.

    Rather than work in a centralized office, ask your boss if you can work in a remote office. Remote Office Centers provides office facilities, internet and phone systems to workers from different companies in shared centers located in the suburbs. There is a free web site for people who want to find a remote office near where they live.
    http://www.remoteofficecenters.com

    With the price of fuel as high as it is, people are going to have to move closer to work or move the office closer to home. Sometimes, moving is not an option or it is too expensive an option. The technology is already available. There are office buildings and under utilized commercial real estate facilities all over suburban America. Why drive to work through crowed roadways, when there are plenty of offices located within a mile of where you live?

  • Posted By: Island Press @ 07/15/2008 1:26:12 PM

    For more from Chris Leinberger about the move from suburbs to cities:

    http://blog.islandpress.org/author/christopher (his contributions to Island Press' Eco-Compass Blog),

    http://islandpress.org/bookstore/details.php?isbn=9781597261364 (his book, The Option of Urbanism)




  • Posted By: Island Press @ 07/15/2008 1:23:21 PM

    For those interested in more from Chris Leinberger about the migration from suburbs to cities:

    http://blog.islandpress.org/author/christopher (his contributions to Island Press' Eco-Compass Blog)

    Or read his book, "The Option of Urbanism" (http://islandpress.org/bookstore/details.php?isbn=9781597261364)




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