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May 1, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution
, Environmental Justice
, Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
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- affordablehousing, cities, cityparks, community, driving, green-building, greenbuilding, neighborhood, newyork, parks, subway, sustainability, sustainabledevelopment, transportation, walkability, walkable, walking
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→
April 30, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Health and the Environment
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
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- architecture, community, driving, green-building, greenbuilding, greendesign, neighborhood, smartgrowth, sprawl, transportation, walkability, walking
The American Institute of Architects has announced their annual “Top Ten Green Projects,” as chosen by the Institute’s Committee on the Environment (affectionately known as “COTE”). Now I have to say that I personally like and am impressed by just...continued→
April 16, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- green-building, green-roofs, greenbuilding, LEED, smartgrowth, stormwater
Thanks to my NRDC colleague Nancy Stoner for pointing me to a great new article about green roofs on the msnbc web site. We’ve been struggling a bit within the environmental community to agree on techniques for watershed protection that...continued→
March 27, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- ballpark, baseball, community, green-building, neighborhood, redevelopment, smartgrowth, stadium
Fifteen blocks south of the US Capitol, at 8:05 pm this Sunday evening, a joyous thing will happen in Washington. The city’s major league baseball team, the Washington Nationals, will take the field for their first official game at their new stadium,...continued→