Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good. With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
People concerned with smart, sustainable development invariably end up talking about Portland (Oregon) or examples therein. This is because it has probably done more to apply the principles that we care about than any other region in the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
A major challenge that has come with sprawl over the last half-century has been that growing up, maturing, and growing older has required, more often than not, moving to a new community at each new stage. This is largely because...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I've reported a couple of times before about Walk Score, the handy-and-getting-handier tool for calculating the convenience of a given location to typical destinations like shops, restaurants, schools, parks, libraries, and so on. The more destinations within walking distance, the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Several times each day, a military helicopter flies over my house. It flies much closer to the ground than other aircraft, and it's seriously noisy. We don't know why, exactly, since in DC you tend just to accept these...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Prevention magazine has published a list of the cities that its editors believe are the best in the land for walking. There are no surprises in the top ten, unless you count Honolulu as one: San Francisco New...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Under the leadership of governor Tim Kaine, the Commonwealth of Virginia has adopted new requirements designed to make neighborhood streets more connected, walkable, and safe. In particular, the new regulations limit the number of new dead-end cul-de-sacs, require sidewalks in most...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
I spent the last few days at a meeting in Santa Monica. The meeting was intense, but the setting could hardly have been more hospitable. And it occurs to me that a community looking to reshape itself into...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
HOPE VI is by far my favorite government housing assistance program. Few in my world know how it got its name (Housing Opportunity for People Everywhere, Title VI - thanks, Payton), but we all know its mission of...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Today I am able to treat you to another guest post by my colleague Rachel Sohmer, who hits it out of the park: I grew up in a typical subdivision of detached single-family homes built in the 60s, where...continued→
