Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Reviving the World's Oceans , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
Kudos to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a comprehensive new report and web site on best practices for smart development in coastal and waterfront communities. The report was issued in cooperation with the federal EPA,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
I want to do a new series of occasional posts on greening the urban density that we need for sustainable growth. And I can think of no better way to kick it off than with this 5-minute video featuring my...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
My NRDC colleague Rachel Sohmer has produced a wonderful slide show illustrating how low-impact-development techniques for reducing stormwater runoff (sometimes called "green infrastructure") can successfully be integrated into the kinds of smart, urban environments that we need to revive cities...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
New York City may have just become the state of the art when it comes to planning streets for people and the environment, not just cars and traffic. And I'm not sure the environmental community has noticed yet,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
One of the slides I've prepared for an upcoming presentation to the North Carolina chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects juxtaposes these two images to show how a trolley or light rail line might be made greener, literally:...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I sometimes hang out at the Rooflines blog hosted by the National Housing Institute, where a post by David Holtzman on green infrastructure caught my eye today. It features an innovative program by the city of Seattle designed to bring...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I am not an expert on water quality, but I have learned a lot about the subject over the last few years. My tutors have been my NRDC colleagues, my colleagues on the LEED-ND core committee, and the amazing...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I've long been a fan of University of Maryland architecture professor Roger Lewis, especially for his "Shaping the City" columns in The Washington Post. Roger was articulating the principles of smart growth and livable urbanism long before the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Today we have a guest blogger. I've invited my NRDC colleague Rachel Sohmer, who is a smart growth advocate and conservation biologist, to share some thoughts and images on the subject of biophilia. The rest of this post is Rachel's,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
In my post yesterday on les bastides - the well-planned medieval towns in France, I mentioned that their town walls could be seen as a precursor to the gated McMansion "communities" that we see in suburban America today. Indeed, the word...continued→
