Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
According to a press release issued last week, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis has announced that the agency will update the system used to score applications for clean water infrastructure loans. The changes will...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Just last week, my NRDC colleague Nancy Stoner pointed out that the federal program that provides water infrastructure to local communities is essentially subsidizing sprawl. This is because the Clean Water State Revolving Fund (an atrocious name if I've ever...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
At the president's town hall meeting in Fort Myers, Florida, earlier today, he gave a clear statement about where the country needs to go with regard to land use and transportation: "Now, look, this is America. We always had the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
As I write, Gaza is under intense bombardment, over 400 residents have been killed, and things could hardly look worse for Palestine. (On edit, Jan 5: I wrote this on the evening of January 1. The situation has evolved...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I've written in here before that I believe that the era of unbridled sprawl and skyrocketing driving rates is over. The demise won't come cleanly and certainly not uniformly, but it is happening. The latest confirmation comes from our...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Noted columnist and TV political analyst David Brooks has an excellent op-ed in today's New York Times observing that the American social and economic culture has shifted from sprawl to smart growth and that it is time for the political...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Arthur C. (Chris) Nelson, whom people like me cite all the time because he knows so much more about real estate and development trends than we do, has a new book out. Titled A Guide to Impact Fees and...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The nationally syndicated writer Neal Peirce has a great column out this week on the nation’s infrastructure woes. It basically confirms what we all have thought as we drive over ridiculously broken roads, try to crowd into too-few buses or...continued→
