Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
BENTONVILLE, April 1 - In a dramatic joint appearance this morning, Walmart CEO Mike F. Duke and former candidate John R. McCain announced major new initiatives to curtail poorly planned, sprawling land development across the country. "It's the right thing to do,"...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Haya El Nasser, who has long covered land development stories for USA Today, has written excellent companion pieces in today’s edition about changing suburbs and cities. The first, nicely displayed on page one, looks at how far-flung suburbs are reinventing themselves to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Over the weekend my colleague on the LEED for Neighborhood Development Core Committee, Ken Potts, e-mailed me and others about another of the country’s historic movie houses at risk of demolition. It wouldn’t take all that much money to save it: ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Matthew Yglesias on theatlantic.com points out that it is not just large cities and metro areas that can adopt smart growth practices. He correctly explains that there are plenty of places in America that will never have, for example, sophisticated public...continued→
