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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

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→

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LEED-ND: why it matters, where it stands, and why enviros need to pay attention

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→

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: 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...; more→

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