Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Herewith, readers, some of my very favorite smart, livable places that are contributing positively to the environment, as I've written about them over the past year. When NRDC's Ian Wilker first approached me about blogging, I'm sure that neither...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
The new issue of New Urban News has a great feature in which six leaders of smart growth and new urbanism express their wishes for the new administration. Excerpts from some of my favorites below, with links: John Norquist:...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Further evidence that sprawling outer suburbs are hurt more in the current economy (let's just go ahead and call it a recession, shall we?) than smarter locations: Last Friday's Washington Post took a look at recent trends in public...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
An important new report based on painstaking empirical research in 17 locations finds that, on average, transit-oriented development (TOD) reduces car trips by 49 percent in the morning peak period and 48 percent in the evening peak, compared to what...continued→
