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We must pay more attention to coastal development and sea level rise

January 27, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:: blackwater, chesapeake, globalwarming, sealevelrise, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment, wildlife

I spend most of my professional time thinking about where development should go, where it shouldn't, and what form it should take. A lot of my thinking is derived from wanting to reduce transportation impacts from sprawl and also...continued→

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Maryland wants to rejuvenate the state's smart growth efforts. Good idea. But.

January 13, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: chesapeake, glendening, greenhousegases, martino'malley, maryland, planning, smartgreenandgrowing, smartgrowth

Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley announced yesterday that he was introducing six bills in the state legislature to influence the state's land development in a "smart, green, and growing" way. Collectively, the bills would do the following: Strengthen...continued→

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: 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...; more→

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