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The Obama administration’s remarkable week on sustainable cities, smart growth and revitalization

July 16, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:: choiceneighborhoods, community, donovan, DOT, globalwarming, HOPEVI, housing, HUD, lahood, neighborhood, obama, smartercities, smartgrowth, urbanpolicy

Wow. On Monday, before heading out to toss the first pitch at Tuesday's baseball All-Star Game, the president kicked off a White House forum on urban policy by criticizing past federal measures that have encouraged sprawl and promising a new...continued→

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Transportation Secretary LaHood leads the way on sustainability

June 18, 2009

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

Tags:: community, DOT, highspeedrail, lahood, livablecommunities, locationefficiency, smartercities, smartgrowth, sustainability, transit, transportation

This is not your father's DOT. A couple of days ago I wrote a post on the remarkable (and now three-agency) partnership on sustainable communities within the Obama administration. Secretaries Ray LaHood (DOT) and Shaun Donovan (HUD) and Administrator Lisa...continued→

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: 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...; more→

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