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When is your city’s "transportation freedom day"?

April 3, 2009

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

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costs, costsofsprawl, transportation

The public interest group U.S.PIRG has calculated the day by which residents of America's metro areas will, on average, have earned enough money to pay for their annual transportation costs.  If you're lucky, perhaps you live in the San Francisco-Oakland-San...continued

America’s most fuel-efficient neighborhoods, according to Forbes

July 9, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil

Tags:
costs, gasprices, neighborhood, smartgrowth, transportation

 Mainstream publications are falling all over each other trying to come up with new angles on gas prices and, in quite a few cases, how those prices are affected by, or are affecting, neighborhood choices. In its new article on...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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