Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably
Today I am pleased to present a very good guest post by my friend and frequent collaborator Lee Epstein: Reading Kaid's recent posts on the great value (and sometime dearth) of environmentalists engaging on urban redevelopment issues made me recall...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Earlier this week I received a message from my friend R, whose opening sentence was "Every time I see something in your blog about good school locations, it looks like an elementary school." Hmmmm. I think she is...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
The headline reads like something from The Onion, no? This comes to us via the WTF Department (actually from an article by Andrew J. Bernstein in The Saratogian): "Janette Kaddo Marino and her son, Adam, 12, wanted to participate...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Last fall, I posted a two-part photo essay on school sprawl and the alternatives. As I wrote then (in Part 1), "schools used to be the heart of a neighborhood or community. Children and not a few teachers...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
There is a story on the GreenerBuildings website that the US Conference of Mayors has formed the Mayors' Alliance for Green Schools, which will work with the US Green Building Council toward the goal of making the nation's schools environmentally...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Further evidence that sprawling outer suburbs are hurt more in the current economy (let's just go ahead and call it a recession, shall we?) than smarter locations: Last Friday's Washington Post took a look at recent trends in public...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy
When I left off yesterday, I showed a Google Earth image of an elementary school set on a lot isolated from its nearby community, some of whose kids might otherwise walk to school. Here's one that's even more isolated: For...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
How in the world did we get from this . . . To this? Even worse, why have we moved away from this . . . Just so we can build this? Schools used to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
Yesterday I wrote about a seemingly endless series of challenges to development activities, even relatively minor ones, proposed by churches and schools in and around my neighborhood. This bothers me because, if we are experiencing hostility between neighbors and even...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
I’ve had this post milling around in my head for a long time. What finally prompted me to write is a ferocious battle in my neighborhood challenging a Baptist church’s proposed addition to its building. The addition would house a...continued→
