Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
On this Veterans' Day, when we remember those who have served, it is troubling to note that, although veterans make up around 9 percent of our population, they comprise 23 percent of our homeless population and fully a third of...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
For the past two years, the John S. and James L Knight Foundation, working with the Gallup polling organization, have been taking the pulse, so to speak, of 28,000 residents in 26 cities linked to the Foundation. Called Soul of...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I've written before about how rural utopias usually aren't as environmentally benign as they seem, while urban places - compact, walkable cities, suburbs, and towns - encourage lifestyles that are very low-impact on a per-capita basis. It's one of the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
I confess that the Talking Heads were more a band that I thought I should like rather than one I actually did. Maybe that's because I grew up in the South in the 1960s, where the good music had a...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Carol Coletta, head of the national network CEOs for Cities and host of the weekly radio show Smart City, writes on Good Magazine's web site: "It is increasingly clear that the old American dream is shattered, and we need...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
As some of you probably know, Smarter Cities is an initiative that ranks US cities on a number of key sustainability criteria as well as on overall sustainability. The system has been developed, managed and staffed independently of NRDC, but...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Several times each day, a military helicopter flies over my house. It flies much closer to the ground than other aircraft, and it's seriously noisy. We don't know why, exactly, since in DC you tend just to accept these...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Hey, Washington Post, it's good news and another sign that cities are back when crime rates drop. As the news outlet of record for a major city and metropolitan area, you'd think they would get that. But, instead of reporting...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I just ran across a very provocative report assessing the response of 40 large US cities to climate change. Published a couple of months ago by the philanthropic collaborative Living Cities, the report Green Cities: How Urban Sustainability Efforts Can...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Cut'n'Paste Cities is a web-based participatory project that invites readers to share what they like best (and least) about cities, through their own photographs: "A global call to action and an invitation to urban dwellers to describe through photography...continued→
