Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
According to a press release issued last week, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Commissioner Pete Grannis has announced that the agency will update the system used to score applications for clean water infrastructure loans. The changes will...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
New York City may have just become the state of the art when it comes to planning streets for people and the environment, not just cars and traffic. And I'm not sure the environmental community has noticed yet,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
The Sundance Channel currently has a neat series of 2-minute perspectives on the High Line, the city's elevated-railway-turned-cool-linear-park. The one just below is narrated by Adrian Benape, the city's parks commissioner. I particularly like what he has to say about...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
I was invited to participate in an interview just published online by NRDC's magazine, OnEarth. The interview is called "Transforming Our Cities," and it plays off a feature in the magazine on landscape super-architect Diana Balmori. I'll get to Balmori,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
(I am honored today to present another guest post from Rachel Sohmer, one of my smart growth colleagues here at NRDC.) Did you catch the New York Times article about tiny parks tucked among the concrete of Midtown Manhattan? It...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Last week my longtime NRDC colleague Eric Goldstein posted a blog entry highlighting five laudable environmental sites (green apples) and five awful ones (bad apples). Eric got it right as usual. I am particularly a fan of his because, like...continued→
