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April 21, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- agriculture, community, conservation, farmland, localfood, neighborhood, newtowns, smartgrowth, sprawl, urbanism
I want you to bear with me today, because this one is going to be a little long. America's best farmland is in trouble, and will only be in more trouble when the recovery comes. The American Farmland Trust,...continued→
November 19, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- architecture, hankdittmar, newtowns, planning, poundbury, princecharles, princeofwales, princesfoundation, revitalization, smartgrowth, sustainablecommunities
A few years ago, my friend and then-transportation-guru Hank deserted those of us who had befriended him in DC and scampered off to New Mexico, where he had some property, and built an organization that became Reconnecting America. Shortly...continued→
October 8, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise
, Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- automobiledependence, columbiamaryland, newtowns, reston, smartgrowth, sprawl, tysonscorner
As I wrote yesterday, environmental and economic forces are requiring that suburbs become more walkable, more transit-accessible, and more convenient than we have typically seen in the last 50 years. Yesterday we considered the new plan for Tysons Corner,...continued→