Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
From Good magazine comes this introduction to Benny Chan's stunning photography: "Rush hour in Los Angeles is synonymous with gridlock, but the sheer enormity of the situation can be tough to grasp. Fortunately, there is the architecture photographer...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Clarence Eckerson, Jr. has produced a terrific little film on a highly successful BRT (Bus Rapid Transit) line in the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles. Writing for Streetfilms.org, Eckerson introduces the film: "Who would have thought that one of the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Through the combination of my insatiable curiosity and the wonders of the internet, I have found the magic kingdom in southern California. No, not that magic kingdom, but the vibrant, down-home, very web-savvy, it's-happening-here community of East Hollywood. Everything you need to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Over the last decade or two, cities have begun to reclaim their urban neighborhoods from freeways. Boston buried its Central Artery in the Big Dig. San Francisco tore down the earthquake-damaged Embarcadero Freeway and replaced it with a more...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
Last time, I wrote about the wonderful Project Row Houses in Houston. Today I get to write about its progeny, the Watts House Project in south Los Angeles. PRH founder Rick Lowe attempted to replicate his Houston project in...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Occidental College professor Peter Dreier has a post up on the Rooflines blog about Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's bold new proposal for affordable housing in LA. In particular, Dreier writes: "Villaraigosa's plan involves bringing together the city's crazy-quilt...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment
I'm so looking forward to reading Occidental College prof Robert Gottlieb's latest book, Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City (MIT Press, 2007). It promises as much cultural as environmental enlightenment, examining, as the publisher puts it,...continued→
