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Philadelphia’s new green bank, ready for business

April 23, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
banking, community, e3bank, economicrecovery, greeninvestment, markettransformation, sandywiggins

Earlier this week I received a message from my former LEED-ND colleague Sandy Wiggins about his new venture, e3bank, headquartered in the Philadelphia suburb of Malvern.  His and his partners' aim is nothing less than to create a commercially successful,...continued

Smart, sustainable development can aid economic recovery

October 14, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
bailout, economicrecovery, economy, newurbanism, peterkatz, planning, smartgrowth, sprawl

  I don't know about you, but I'm finding it a little hard these days to stay focused on the environment and sustainable land development while life as we know it seems to be tinkering somewhere between precarious and going...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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