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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→
September 14, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
, Reviving the World's Oceans
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- coasts, development, greeninfrastructure, lowimpactdevelopment, NOAA, planning, smartgrowth, waterfront, watershed
Kudos to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a comprehensive new report and web site on best practices for smart development in coastal and waterfront communities. The report was issued in cooperation with the federal EPA,...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→
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 8, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- drought, runoff, smartgrowth, sprawl, watershed
You wouldn’t necessarily know it unless you live there, but the Southeastern US is undergoing a major drought right now. It seems to be at its worst in my “birth state” of North Carolina, which for months has been classified...continued→
