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June 24, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- community, neighborhood, publictransit, smartgrowth, suburbs, traffic, transit-oriented-development
Yesterday I wrote about how Arlington, Virginia’s redevelopment along one of the Washington, DC region’s Metro subway lines has created an amazing amount of new mixed-use development - all without expanding the region’s development footprint, while preserving the community’s single-family residential...
June 23, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- community, neighborhood, publictransit, redevelopment, smartgrowth, suburbs, transit-oriented-development
The image you see above, of Arlington, Virginia looking north to the Potomac River and Washington, DC, shows one of the country’s most stunning smart growth success stories. With amazing foresight and gifted planning, Arlington has transformed itself in...
May 13, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- cities, driving, green-cities, publictransportation, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, sustainability, sustainable, transit-oriented-development, walkable
After so many wonky posts in a row, this time I'm going to lighten up with one of those fun internet quizzes that I can do more or less all day when I have something I want to procrastinate. This...
May 13, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- carbon, co2, driving, growth-management, impervious-surface, runoff, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater
When faced with a situation where rapid growth is occurring, such as I discussed yesterday, the best thing to do environmentally is to manage and shape it so that a good quality of life is maintained with the least environmental harm. This...
May 7, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- airpollution, brownfields, congestion, emissions, infill, neighborhood, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic, transit, transportation
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released important new research detailing the benefits of smart growth on transportation emissions and air quality. In particular, the report reviews the effects on traffic and pollution that would occur if new growth and land development...
May 1, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- affordablehousing, cities, cityparks, community, driving, green-building, greenbuilding, neighborhood, newyork, parks, subway, sustainability, sustainabledevelopment, transportation, walkability, walkable, walking
Last week my longtime NRDC colleague Eric Goldstein posted a blog entry highlighting five laudable environmental sites (green apples) and five awful ones (bad apples). Eric got it right as usual. I am particularly a fan of his because, like...
April 29, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- art, Chris-Jordan, consumption, photography
Chris Jordan thinks big, and he wants us to think big, too. He makes large-scale fine art photographs of American mass consumption, the losses from Hurricane Katrina, and more. Have you ever wondered what the number of plastic drink bottles...
February 24, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Health and the Environment
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
- Tags:
- coalmining, KathyMattea, nodepression
While perusing the latest issue of the excellent and soon-to-be-lamented music magazine No Depression, I came across an eloquent review of Kathy Mattea’s forthcoming album, Coal. Mattea, of course, is the husky-voiced and melodic folk-country artist who has won numerous...
February 22, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- centralcity, commuting, congestion, pricing, publictransportation, smartgrowth, suburbs, traffic, transit
In the policy circles I inhabit, “congestion pricing” is all the rage. This is mostly because New York City’s mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed that anyone entering midtown or lower Manhattan in a motor vehicle during peak hours should pay...
