Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Please forgive the lame title reference to a 40-year-old (!) Joni Mitchell song, but my creative juices are running a little low today. Fortunately, they weren't running low AT ALL for the guy who made this video. I could try...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
One of the things that has challenged me as an advocate of smart growth is that, while we see substantial evidence of smarter development around us, we also continue to see a lot of sprawl. So it can really be...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
One of the biggest challenges to managing the way we grow and develop land, or the way we conserve land, is that our settlement patterns and our ecosystems do not match up with the way that we are organized to...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
If you know anyone who is still in denial that growth is real and that we had better get our act together quickly in figuring out how to live and develop sustainably, send them to Peter Russell's World Clock. The...
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 Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, has a wonderful character that is well worth preserving. The heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, Lancaster's most memorable landscape features are small Amish farms on beautiful rolling hills. It’s also the most productive farmland in the Commonwealth. ...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Sir Edmund Hillary died yesterday at the age of 88. I grew up in a mountainous region, and mountains have always held a special place in my heart. They had everything to do with my interest in environmental values and,...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Earlier this week, the National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy released a new report warning that more than a quarter of the bird species in the US are in danger of extinction. Suburban sprawl is among the principal...
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming
I’ve been mulling whether or not to post this particular blog entry because, truth to tell, it’s a little wonky and abstract compared to its predecessors. But it’s a great story that needs to be spread. In particular, ours is...
