Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
My NRDC colleague Rachel Sohmer has produced a wonderful slide show illustrating how low-impact-development techniques for reducing stormwater runoff (sometimes called "green infrastructure") can successfully be integrated into the kinds of smart, urban environments that we need to revive cities...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
One of the slides I've prepared for an upcoming presentation to the North Carolina chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects juxtaposes these two images to show how a trolley or light rail line might be made greener, literally:...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I sometimes hang out at the Rooflines blog hosted by the National Housing Institute, where a post by David Holtzman on green infrastructure caught my eye today. It features an innovative program by the city of Seattle designed to bring...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I am not an expert on water quality, but I have learned a lot about the subject over the last few years. My tutors have been my NRDC colleagues, my colleagues on the LEED-ND core committee, and the amazing...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
I've long been a fan of University of Maryland architecture professor Roger Lewis, especially for his "Shaping the City" columns in The Washington Post. Roger was articulating the principles of smart growth and livable urbanism long before the...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 Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Thanks to my NRDC colleague Nancy Stoner for pointing me to a great new article about green roofs on the msnbc web site. We’ve been struggling a bit within the environmental community to agree on techniques for watershed protection that...continued→
