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Great short video on greening smart growth with living nature

August 17, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
affordablehousing, biophilia, community, greeninfrastructure, neighborhoods, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment

I want to do a new series of occasional posts on greening the urban density that we need for sustainable growth.  And I can think of no better way to kick it off than with this 5-minute video featuring my...continued

Pocket parks rejuvenate cities (guest post)

October 6, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
biophilia, cityparks, greenacrepark, newyork, paleypark, parks, pocketparks, tudorcitygreens

  (I am honored today to present another guest post from Rachel Sohmer, one of my smart growth colleagues here at NRDC.) Did you catch the New York Times article about tiny parks tucked among the concrete of Midtown Manhattan? It...continued

Biophilia: greening our cities (literally!)

July 24, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably

Tags:
biophilia, cityparks, greeninfrastructure, smartgrowth

 Today we have a guest blogger.  I've invited my NRDC colleague Rachel Sohmer, who is a smart growth advocate and conservation biologist, to share some thoughts and images on the subject of biophilia.  The rest of this post is Rachel's,...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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