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Rethinking environmental impacts to manage growth

May 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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carbon, co2, driving, growth-management, impervious-surface, runoff, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater

 When faced with a situation where rapid growth is occurring, such as I discussed yesterday, the best thing to do environmentally is to manage and shape it so that a good quality of life is maintained with the least environmental harm.  This...continued

How much the US will grow, and where: numbers and a map

May 12, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
development, growth-management, housing, population, projection, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl

 The housing market may be in a slump right now - in part because we've been building too much sprawl - but over the next 25 years or so the US is going to experience rapid population growth, and the...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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