Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
These wonderful photographs of Frederick County, Maryland, are all by my friend Kai Hagen, writer, photographer, conservationist, entrepeneur, and County Commissioner. Kai is concerned that development is sprawling out onto prime soils even while there are ample sites within...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy
The Montgomery (MD) County Council has voted 8-1 to scale back the size of new homes that are replacing teardowns in older neighborhoods. This addresses what has become a growing (pun initially unintended) problem in many communities. From the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Every now and then I run across a story that is so good, that feels so right, that I thank my lucky stars for the freedom NRDC gave me to evolve my career into working for better, more sustainable communities. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Venice. New York. Prague. Paris. These are some cities that are making "ten-most-romantic cities” lists. I just looked at three such sites, and Venice, New York and Paris were consensus picks, on all of them. Prague was on two of...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Asheville, North Carolina is the opposite of New York, New York in a lot of ways. Not as opposite as it used to be – and we’ll get to that in a second – but still pretty far removed. Yet,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield
The Vincent Scully Prize is awarded each year by the National Building Museum to recognize “exemplary practice, scholarship, or criticism in architecture, landscape architecture, historic preservation, or urban design.” It’s a big deal in this field, and my favorite past...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield
Just a brief follow-up to my previous post on historic preservation: The Washington Post’s Roger Lewis (who is also on the architecture faculty at the University of Maryland) has a creative point of view regarding the Brutalist downtown Washington...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
My first thought when I heard about this was, you've got to be kidding me. But nope, the concrete bunker you see to the left of this paragraph, actually a church building in downtown Washington, is about to be designated...continued→
