Posted by Justin Horner in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
From Pricewaterhousecoopers, to the Urban Land Institute to real estate experts throughout the country, the consensus is clear: changes in American demographics and evolving market preferences mean that the clock is ticking on sprawl. Smaller households and a growing affinity...
Posted by Justin Horner in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
In twin events today in Washington DC and Chicago, the three partners who created LEED-Neighborhood Development (NRDC, the Congress for the New Urbanism and the US Green Building Council) announced the system’s official launch. Nearly a decade in the making,...
Posted by Justin Horner in Health and the Environment , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Like many of you, when I learned of the tragic Metro crash in Washington earlier this week, I was deeply disturbed. When you think about it, there’s something uniquely unsettling about being a passenger on something so big and powerful. ...
Posted by Justin Horner in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The more you learn about public transit, the happier about it you get. As I’ve written earlier, transit is essential to create more livable communities and to cut down on global warming pollution. Now, apparently, it’s also good for your...
