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Florida county links density & conservation to restrict mining, protect water supply

November 3, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

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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

Boycotting Dolly’s Tennessee mountains to keep pollution alive

August 7, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
coal, dollyparton, mining, mountaintopremoval, tennessee

This isn't usually my beat, but as someone who grew up in western North Carolina, the southern Appalachians (pronounced with a flat "a" in the third syllable, thanks) mean a great deal to me.  And, like a lot of normal...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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