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Curbing Pollution

Smart growth improves air quality, says new research (05/07/08)
BP Could Learn A Lot from James Brown (05/06/08)
Do you want fries with that? (05/02/08)
Happy Bike Month! (05/01/08)
Five more green apples for NYC (05/01/08)
$25 million to paint a tar sands black hole green? (04/29/08)
Chris Jordan’s art: crushed cars, 1.14 million supermarket bags, and more (04/29/08)
Why Endocrine Disruptors Should Be a Household Word (04/25/08)

Environmental Justice

BP Could Learn A Lot from James Brown (05/06/08)
Five more green apples for NYC (05/01/08)
Green Apples and Bad Apples: 10 environmental sites in New York City (04/21/08)
Congestion pricing fails, but the goal of sustainable transportation remains (04/10/08)
When Power Goes to Your Head, and Lungs (04/08/08)
Congestion Pricing in the 9th inning... (04/06/08)
NY City Council Passes Congestion Pricing! (04/02/08)
Greening LA (03/31/08)

Green Enterprise

DOE Says We Can Have Carbon Caps and Economic Growth (05/02/08)
Five more green apples for NYC (05/01/08)
Bush's Rose Garden Energy Plan: Deja Vu All Over Again (04/30/08)
How to go green, according to architects (04/30/08)
Cleaner diesel fuel - at no extra cost (04/24/08)
World Series Champs are Champs of Going Green (04/22/08)
Green It. Mean It? (04/21/08)
SunChips, now with Real Sun (04/18/08)

Greening China

Bad Air: Some Photos from Beijing (01/09/08)
Game On: China Wind Comes to Montana (12/06/07)
What a difference a day makes... (11/26/07)
On Leaving My Wallet At Home (11/20/07)
Pollution Reduces China’s Rainfall (11/18/07)
Little Stiletto Heels and China’s Environment (11/06/07)
On “average,” there is no air pollution (10/16/07)
Dirty Laundry (08/25/07)

Health and the Environment

Survey shows rising honey bee losses (05/08/08)
Smart growth improves air quality, says new research (05/07/08)
Neighborhood food choices may affect your health (05/06/08)
Happy Bike Month! (05/01/08)
Five more green apples for NYC (05/01/08)
How to go green, according to architects (04/30/08)
NRDC and EDF blast White House interference in EPA chemical assessment program called IRIS (04/29/08)
Why Endocrine Disruptors Should Be a Household Word (04/25/08)

Living Sustainably

For the Love of Veggies (05/09/08)
Smart growth improves air quality, says new research (05/07/08)
Neighborhood food choices may affect your health (05/06/08)
Mother’s Day Gifts for the Mindful Buyer (05/05/08)
Turn Over Your Piggybanks. Now. (05/02/08)
Happy Bike Month! (05/01/08)
Five more green apples for NYC (05/01/08)
How to go green, according to architects (04/30/08)

Moving Beyond Oil

Cool New Car Sticker Shows Which Are Cleanest (05/08/08)
In hand wringing over biofuels mandate, safeguards at risk (05/07/08)
Happy Bike Month! (05/01/08)
Bush's Rose Garden Energy Plan: Deja Vu All Over Again (04/30/08)
How to go green, according to architects (04/30/08)
$25 million to paint a tar sands black hole green? (04/29/08)
Pay as you drive – too sensible for America? (04/26/08)
Connecting the Dots: Security and Climate Change (04/25/08)

Nuclear Weapons, Waste and Energy

Anything to Declare? Or, Radiation Monitors Cannot Reliably Detect Highly Enriched Uranium at U.S. Ports and Border Crossings (03/25/08)
Smells Like Radioactive Pork. Ew. (12/11/07)
Getting Our Priorities Straight (12/07/07)
The Galileo Syndrome (07/30/07)

Reviving the World's Oceans

If you're in Brussels next week, come talk about MPAs (05/06/08)
Salmon flunk (05/02/08)
The last one standing (04/23/08)
Cape Wind is needed now; MMS should move quickly (04/21/08)
Fishing makes fish populations unstable (04/21/08)
Can you hear me now? (04/09/08)
C is for...Could be doing more for oceans (03/31/08)
Jump, tuna, jump! (03/27/08)

Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Wyoming Legislators Might Not Like Wolves…Or Foreigners…Or Tourists… (05/09/08)
In hand wringing over biofuels mandate, safeguards at risk (05/07/08)
Being unreasonable about wolves (05/05/08)
Half the Buffalo. All the Problems. (04/30/08)
Paradise Paved - "Discover Kauai" (04/28/08)
Buffalo spirits on the wind (04/24/08)
Bees disappear and honey bee theft spreads east (04/23/08)
Remember Wolf 253: originally published in High Country News, Writers on the Range (04/21/08)

Solving Global Warming

Cool New Car Sticker Shows Which Are Cleanest (05/08/08)
In hand wringing over biofuels mandate, safeguards at risk (05/07/08)
BP Could Learn A Lot from James Brown (05/06/08)
DOE Says We Can Have Carbon Caps and Economic Growth (05/02/08)
Happy Bike Month! (05/01/08)
Five more green apples for NYC (05/01/08)
Bush's Rose Garden Energy Plan: Deja Vu All Over Again (04/30/08)
How to go green, according to architects (04/30/08)

The Media and the Environment

Press Clips: Food vs Fuel, Port Emissions, Patagonia and Water Quality in Miami (05/05/08)
Turn Over Your Piggybanks. Now. (05/02/08)
Happy Bike Month! (05/01/08)
Cleaner diesel fuel - at no extra cost (04/24/08)
Green It. Mean It? (04/21/08)
Press Clips: We’ve Got It Covered -- Global Warming, Energy Efficiency, Plastic Bags, More (04/18/08)
Press Clips: President Bush, "Totally Irrelevant" (04/17/08)
He Never Promised Us a Rose Garden (04/16/08)

U.S. Law and Policy

Cleaner diesel fuel - at no extra cost (04/24/08)
Polar bear pileup (04/18/08)
Congestion pricing fails, but the goal of sustainable transportation remains (04/10/08)
Wolf # 253, R.I.P. (04/04/08)
NY City Council Passes Congestion Pricing! (04/02/08)
April Fools, Plus One (04/02/08)
Is this a “Fossil” Fools’ Day prank? (04/01/08)
Gov. Paterson supports congestion pricing! (03/21/08)

Kaid Benfield

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Kaid Benfield

The director of NRDC's smart growth program, Kaid Benfield is the author of several books, including Once There Were Greenfields and Solving Sprawl.

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