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March 6, 2009
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
, Saving Wildlife and Wild Places
, Solving Global Warming
- Tags:
- 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→
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→
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→
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→