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Bringing regions together for cooperation and planning would promote sustainability

March 6, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

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cities, globalwarming, regionalplanning, rural, smartgrowth, sprawl

  Cities are traditionally blue, rural areas red, and suburbs purple, says Bill Dodge, former executive director of the National Association of Regional Councils, on Citiwire.  But that doesn't mean that they shouldn't or can't cooperate, and Dodge believes the...continued

Andrew Wyeth, 1917-2009

January 17, 2009

Posted by Kaid Benfield

Tags:
andrewwyeth, landscape, rural

      Andrew Wyeth, among the most "American" of artists, and from a distinguished family of artists, has passed away.  He leaves behind a vast legacy of enduring works, many of them of the rural American landscape that so...continued

Starksboro builds community and its future upon residents' stories

December 26, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, middlebury, ortonfamily, planning, rural, smartgrowth, starksboro, storytelling, vermont

  This is a great story for the holidays.  Starksboro, Vermont is a very rural town of about 2000 whose history dates to the late 1700s.  It's between Burlington and Rutland, and the closest big city is Montreal, hours to...continued

Pocket-sized smart growth

February 26, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
community, development, neighborhood, rural, smalltowns, smartgrowth, sprawl, walkable

   Last week I was posting about the downtowns of the very large cities of London, Stockholm, and Washington, DC.  I’ve also posted about smart growth in smaller cities.  But good, environmentally sound development comes in all shapes and sizes, and...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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