Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Last week the Urban Land Institute and PriceWaterhouseCoopers released their well-regarded annual analysis, Emerging Trends in Real Estate 2010. The report, which has been published for the last 30 years, aims to advise the industry "on where to invest, what...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Tyler Caine has a terrific post on his sustainability blog Intercon extolling climate change policy to get on the smart growth bandwagon. He says it extremely well, so I am just going to quote a few bits and...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
While preparing for a presentation, I was reminded that smart growth can and should be implemented step-by-step, and neighborhood-by-neighborhood. It also should be built at a scale and character appropriate to the setting. For example, here's a photo of a...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Nashville's emerging new city neighborhood, The Gulch, was once a decaying old railyard adjacent to a freeway near Music Row and the city's downtown. Now on its way to becoming a showcase of urban revitlization, The Gulch is the South's first LEED-ND...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Last week, I reported that California Governor Schwarzenegger had just signed a landmark law that will require land use planning and corresponding investment to curb global warming emissions: in a nutshell, smart growth. This morning, The New York Times...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released important new research detailing the benefits of smart growth on transportation emissions and air quality. In particular, the report reviews the effects on traffic and pollution that would occur if new growth and land development...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
So, as I was writing yesterday, when the economy was ready, so was Asheville’s downtown. They did it right. Today, most all the places I knew as a kid are still there, but now serving 21st-century functions: I can...continued→
