Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
As reported by the Pegasus News Wire: "The 45-mile Green, Orange and Blue Line DART Rail expansion is projected to generate more than $4 billion in economic activity between 2009 and 2014, according to a new study by...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
When conjuring municipal exemplars of smart growth, Tempe, Arizona, is not the first place that usually comes to mind. But the city of Tempe and ValleyMetro, the transit authority that provides the region's spiffy new light rail...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
One of the slides I've prepared for an upcoming presentation to the North Carolina chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects juxtaposes these two images to show how a trolley or light rail line might be made greener, literally:...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
In a study reported in the Winter 2009 Journal of the American Planning Association, Barbara Brown and Carol Werner of the University of Utah found that study participants who used a new light rail stop reported higher "place attachment"...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I am really happy that the badly needed light rail Purple Line transit proposed for Montgomery and Prince George's Counties in the Maryland suburbs just north of DC has finally been given the go-ahead by the Montgomery County Council. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Back in October, I wrote about the who-would-have-predicted-it greening of Charlotte, for decades North Carolina's notorious bastion of sprawl. But, as the articles I referenced then indicated, there's plenty of evidence. And now there is a great narrated slide...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , U.S. Law and Policy
In addition to choosing our leaders for the next administration and Congress, along with state and local offices, voters last week in many cases also decided referenda and ballot initiatives, many of them having a direct bearing on smart...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
When I was a kid growing up in Asheville, North Carolina, I had a sort of envy/hate thing going on when it came to the state's biggest city, Charlotte. People in Charlotte had more money, it seemed, and their...continued→
