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Neighborhood food choices may affect your health

May 6, 2008

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

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choices, community, diabetes, fastfood, neighborhood, obesity, simplesteps, sustainability

The balance of healthy-vs.-unhealthy food options near your home has a major impact on your health risk, according to a new report released this week by PolicyLink, UCLA's Center for Health Policy Research, and the California Center for Public Health...continued

Beyond the energy bill: on to transportation

December 19, 2007

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming

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choices, communities, efficiency, globalwarming, smartgrowth, sprawl, transit, transportation, walkability

 Warning: serious policy-wonk blog entry coming up.  This week’s enactment by Congress of a 35-mpg vehicle efficiency standard, using a formula that includes SUVs and other so-called “light trucks” (most of the SUVs I see aren’t hauling anything more than the driver...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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