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Kansas City’s Green Impact Zone: making great use of stimulus funds

September 28, 2009

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

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climate, community, globalwarming, greenjobs, neighborhood, revitalization, smartercities, smartgrowth, stimulus, sustainability, transit

There has been a lot written about how federal stimulus money has not done as much as one might hope for existing urban communities.  By contrast, quite a bit of the money has instead been slated for highway projects. A shining exception,...continued

A sensible bill for California development – pass it now

July 8, 2008

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

Tags:
climate, greenhousegases, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic

 California has a chance to pass an exciting new law that gives its metropolitan regions the opportunity and responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through sensible land use planning.  This is long overdue – anyone can see the chaos on our...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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