Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
The National Building Museum is hosting a terrific series of short videos on what makes a "Great Green Place." The examples come from Washington, DC, and a while back I featured one on the revitalizing Columbia Heights neighborhood, narrated by...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
So said Rachel in this space last summer, and I've been pushing the city parks thing here for over a year now. Now we have some new research to back it up. In particular, Meghna Marjadi reports in...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
The image just below, which photographer Bill Lim has made available to us through the wonder of the Creative Commons, is of the beautiful Martin Luther King, Jr., memorial water sculpture in San Francisco's Yerba Buena Gardens. As we...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
In the first study to look at the effect of neighborhood greenness on inner city children's weight over time, researchers from the Indiana University School of Medicine, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and the University of Washington...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Over the last decade or two, cities have begun to reclaim their urban neighborhoods from freeways. Boston buried its Central Artery in the Big Dig. San Francisco tore down the earthquake-damaged Embarcadero Freeway and replaced it with a more...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , U.S. Law and Policy
Earlier in the week, I reported on the success of various transit measures in referenda around the country on November 4. According to our friends on the Trust for Public Land's excellent City Parks Blog, it was also a...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
(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→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
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→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Last week my longtime NRDC colleague Eric Goldstein posted a blog entry highlighting five laudable environmental sites (green apples) and five awful ones (bad apples). Eric got it right as usual. I am particularly a fan of his because, like...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
I’m a bit fickle about this. At first I was sure the country's best example of smart growth was Atlantic Station, in Atlanta. Then I thought it was one of the iconic transit-oriented developments in the west, The Crossings in Silicon Valley or...continued→
