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Rethinking environmental impacts to manage growth

May 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

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carbon, co2, driving, growth-management, impervious-surface, runoff, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater

 When faced with a situation where rapid growth is occurring, such as I discussed yesterday, the best thing to do environmentally is to manage and shape it so that a good quality of life is maintained with the least environmental harm.  This...continued

Sprawl and the Southeastern drought

February 8, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
drought, runoff, smartgrowth, sprawl, watershed

 You wouldn’t necessarily know it unless you live there, but the Southeastern US is undergoing a major drought right now.  It seems to be at its worst in my “birth state” of North Carolina, which for months has been classified...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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