Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Andre Leroux, executive director of the Massachusetts Smart Growth Alliance, believes that New England's smaller cities hold the potential to absorb much development that could help save the region's countryside from sprawl. But it will take some policy reforms to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
President-elect Obama takes office this month vowing to fight climate change, tackle oil dependency and revive the U.S. economy. NRDC believes that smart growth and transit are a big part of the solution. As New York Times columnist David Brooks wrote...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Andrew Macurak has a good post on the National Housing Institute's Rooflines blog about the latest census rankings of poor and wealthy cities: "The U.S. Census Bureau recently released Income, Earnings, and Poverty Data from the 2007 American Community Survey,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Every now and then I run across a story that is so good, that feels so right, that I thank my lucky stars for the freedom NRDC gave me to evolve my career into working for better, more sustainable communities. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Ron Thomas, former director of the once-great Northeastern Illinois Planning Commission, gets credit for alerting me to a riveting new book of photography, Beneath the Roses, by Gregory Crewdson. As Esquire puts it in a highly adjectival review: Cinematically lit....continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Because of various remembrances of Dr. King on Monday, I reminded myself that no one has been hurt by sprawl more than low-income, inner-city, frequently minority populations. When jobs and investment have fled to new pastures (literally), their neighborhoods have...continued→
