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Smart growth improves air quality, says new research

May 7, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

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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...continued

Solving sprawl with basketball

January 18, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

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airpollution, downtown, driving, globalwarming, redevelopment, smartgrowth, transit, transportation

 Tomorrow I’ll be at Washington’s downtown sports arena, the Verizon Center, to cheer on all-American Roy Hibbert and my Georgetown Hoyas as they take on Notre Dame.  What does this have to do with smart growth?  Plenty.  Ten years ago,...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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