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September 8, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- development, driving, gasprices, growthmanagement, housing, population, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic
Now that the two major political parties have, for better or worse, formally nominated their candidates for president and vice president of the United States, I am reposting these two entries, with some minor updating. They were originally published on August 12...continued→
August 12, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice
, Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- development, driving, gasprices, growthmanagement, housing, population, smartgrowth, sprawl, traffic
Dear Mr. President-elect*:As you may know, America is entering a period of rapid growth that will have a profound effect on our national well-being. As a result, you and your administration will have an unprecedented challenge, but also an unprecedented...continued→
May 12, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
, The Media and the Environment
, U.S. Law and Policy
- Tags:
- development, growth-management, housing, population, projection, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl
The housing market may be in a slump right now - in part because we've been building too much sprawl - but over the next 25 years or so the US is going to experience rapid population growth, and the...continued→
February 28, 2008
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
, Moving Beyond Oil
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- carbon, development, emissions, globalwarming, population, sustainable
If you know anyone who is still in denial that growth is real and that we had better get our act together quickly in figuring out how to live and develop sustainably, send them to Peter Russell's World Clock. The...continued→
December 12, 2007
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
- Tags:
- building, builtenvironment, development, greenhousegases, land, NIMBY, population, smartgrowth, sprawl
I love these acronyms: LULU – Locally Unwanted Land Use. NIMBY – Not In My Back Yard. NOPE – Not On Planet Earth (!). And my absolute favorite: BANANA – Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anything. I hope you’re at...continued→
