Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy
Waynesville, North Carolina is a sleepy southern town about 30 miles or so from where I grew up. It's where I got my first traffic ticket, among other things.You know smart growth is catching on when a place like Waynesville...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I know it may shock readers to learn this, but I am not a regular reader of the Financial Times. I do kind of like its flesh-colored visual tone, though, and my first-language reading options have been limited while in...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
I am in Berlin (and so is the Dalai Lama, or at least so he was on Monday, as I discovered when I encountered his massive crowd). And so apparently is Paul Krugman, a columnist for the International Herald-Tribune who...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
We Americans have gotten fat. And we’ve done so to an alarming degree. Sunday’s Washington Post began a five-part series on obesity in children, a particularly serious part of the problem:“In ways only beginning to be understood, being overweight at...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
My friend David Dixon, and his Boston-based architecture firm, Goody Clancy, has been doing some fabulous smart growth work, and I’m here to give them a well-deserved pat on the back for it. I mention this because I’m off...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
After so many wonky posts in a row, this time I'm going to lighten up with one of those fun internet quizzes that I can do more or less all day when I have something I want to procrastinate. This...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
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→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy
The housing market may be in a slump right now - in part because we've been building too much sprawl - but over the next 25 years or so the US is going to experience rapid population growth, and the...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released important new research detailing the benefits of smart growth on transportation emissions and air quality. In particular, the report reviews the effects on traffic and pollution that would occur if new growth and land development...continued→
