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November 3, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- agriculture, conservation, density, florida, mining, smartgrowth, sprawl, watershed, wetlands
Lee County, Florida (Fort Myers) is moving forward with an innovative plan to use clustered, dense development instead of large-lot zoning to protect its water supply. Under current zoning the southeastern portion of the Gulf coast county has been threatened...continued→
August 28, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- architecture, community, density, greenbuilding, markettransformation, neighborhood, planning, smartercities, smartgrowth, vancouver
If the Reburbia contest sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat was all about flights of imagination to reconceive suburbs, then FormShift Vancouver, a competition sponsored by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver, was all about...continued→
August 18, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- architecture, community, density, markettransformation, neighborhood, NIMBY, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment, transitorienteddevelopment
Is it any wonder that neighbors continue to oppose density (oops, I meant "compact development") when this is what we have been giving them? We smart growth advocates have gotten lazy. The issue has evolved in the last decade but,...continued→
July 13, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- density, greeninfrastructure, lowimpactdevelopment, neighborhood, smartercities, smartgrowth, stormwater, watershed
My NRDC colleague Rachel Sohmer has produced a wonderful slide show illustrating how low-impact-development techniques for reducing stormwater runoff (sometimes called "green infrastructure") can successfully be integrated into the kinds of smart, urban environments that we need to revive cities...continued→
May 28, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- affordablehousing, community, density, neighborhood, parks, smartercities, smartgrowth
My friends at the Trust for Public Land have a new report on the relationship between city parks and the big role that we need cities to play in reducing our overall environmental impacts. Parks are especially important to disadvantaged...continued→
April 28, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- compactdevelopment, density, locationefficiency, markettransformation, neighborhood, smartercities, smartgrowth, sprawl
Later this week, I am going to be participating with my friend David Dixon and marketing whiz Laurie Volk in a seminar on development density at the annual meeting of the American Institute of Architects. Our session is titled "Making...continued→
March 20, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- density, epasmartgrowth, greeninfrastructure, markettransformation, smartercities, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater, watershed, worldwaterday
I am not an expert on water quality, but I have learned a lot about the subject over the last few years. My tutors have been my NRDC colleagues, my colleagues on the LEED-ND core committee, and the amazing...continued→
February 11, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- community, density, farmland, LEED-ND, location, markettransformation, neighborhood, smartgrowth, sprawl, standards, wetlands
As I suspect most readers of this blog already know, NRDC has been one of the founding partners in LEED for Neighborhood Development, the national program to rate and certify smart growth projects. (The other two lead partners are...continued→
June 19, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- community, density, development, housing, smartgrowth
The Urban Land Institute and National Multi-Housing Council, in association with the Sierra Club, have produced a terrific new book and toolkit for citizens, businesses, and advocates called Getting Density Right.As the description on the web site of the ULI...continued→
June 9, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- community, density, housing, neighborhood, smartgrowth, sprawl, sustainability
Raleigh, North Carolina is not a bad place to take the pulse of the country. And the local News and Observer has an article on how the living aspirations for Generation Y are differing from those of their parents, even...continued→
