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Five more green apples for NYC

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

How to go green, according to architects

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

Green roofs and green parking garages – parking garages?

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

Play ball!

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

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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