Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Every now and then I run across a story that is so good, that feels so right, that I thank my lucky stars for the freedom NRDC gave me to evolve my career into working for better, more sustainable communities. ...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I know it may shock readers to learn this, but I am not a regular reader of the Financial Times. I do kind of like its flesh-colored visual tone, though, and my first-language reading options have been limited while in...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
My friend David Dixon, and his Boston-based architecture firm, Goody Clancy, has been doing some fabulous smart growth work, and I’m here to give them a well-deserved pat on the back for it. I mention this because I’m off...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
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...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I'm so looking forward to reading Occidental College prof Robert Gottlieb's latest book, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007). It promises as much cultural as environmental enlightenment, examining, as the publisher puts it,...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Ron Thomas, former director of the once-great Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, gets credit for alerting me to a riveting new book of photography, Beneath the Roses, by Gregory Crewdson. As Esquire puts it in a highly adjectival review: Cinematically lit....
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Trouble the Water is the name of a new documentary film about the survivors of Hurricane Katrina. At this point, I bet I’ve seen a half-dozen such films, but this one is the best.What sets it apart is that it...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
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...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Because of various remembrances of Dr. King on Monday, I reminded myself that no one has been hurt by sprawl more than low-income, inner-city, frequently minority populations. When jobs and investment have fled to new pastures (literally), their neighborhoods have...
