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To promote recycling on the street, make it fun

October 30, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably

Tags:
funtheory, recycling

Via Volkswagen's thefuntheory.com ("This site is dedicated to the thought that something as simple as fun is the easiest way to change people's behaviour for the better"), the Bottle Bank Arcade Machine:    Kaid Benfield writes (almost) daily about community, development,...continued

Downsizing the footprint with Tiny Texas Houses

May 6, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
bradkittel, community, greenbuilding, housesize, neighborhood, recycling, salvage, tinytexashouses

    On the Tiny Texas Houses website, Brad Kittel states his fascinating architectural philosophy much better than I can: "My goal is to show people what can be done with a concept I call Salvage Building, thus what you...continued

Development that is both transit-oriented AND transit-derived!

April 15, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
community, containerhome, containernation, group41, markettransformation, neighborhood, recycling, smartgrowth, transitorienteddevelopment

A while back I wrote about the home being built in Kansas City from industrial shipping containers, which is an amazing concept for recycling.  I subsequently learned that there is a whole movement afoot, and yesterday I stumbled across some...continued

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
Co-founder, LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system; co-founder, Smart Growth America coalition; author, Once There...
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