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The Cascade Agenda for conservation and smart growth - an excellent video

December 5, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
cascadeagenda, cascadelandconservancy, community, conservation, forests, growthmanagement, pugetsound, smartgrowth

  Not enough organizations and not enough of our messaging, in my opinion, explicitly links the saving of the rural and natural resource landscape with more compact growth.  Lately I have begun to worry a bit that this fundamental link...continued

An open letter to the next president on sustainable development (part 2) (reposted)

September 9, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
community, greenbuilding, growthmanagement, neighborhood, planning, publictransportation, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment

 Now that the nation's two major political parties have, for better or worse, formally nominated their candidates for president and vice president of the United States, I am reposting these two entries, with some minor updating.  They were originally posted on...continued

An open letter to the next president on sustainable development (part 1) (reposted)

September 8, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
development, driving, gasprices, growthmanagement, housing, population, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic

 Now that the two major political parties have, for better or worse, formally nominated their candidates for president and vice president of the United States, I am reposting these two entries, with some minor updating.  They were originally published on August 12...continued

An open letter to the next president on sustainable development (part 2)

August 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
community, greenbuilding, growthmanagement, neighborhood, planning, publictransportation, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment

 Dear Mr. President-elect*:As I was saying last time, America is entering a period of unprecedented growth and building that will challenge us as a people.  To maximize the quality of life for all Americans in a climate of growing demands for...continued

An open letter to the next president on sustainable development (part 1)

August 12, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
development, driving, gasprices, growthmanagement, housing, population, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic

Dear Mr. President-elect*:As you may know, America is entering a period of rapid growth that will have a profound effect on our national well-being.  As a result, you and your administration will have an unprecedented challenge, but also an unprecedented...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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