Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Streetfilms has released a great short video about how our streets and traffic patterns pose particular challenges to senior citizens on foot. With the assistance of New York City's Transportation Alternatives, that city's impressive DOT has begun an earnest look...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
From Good magazine comes this introduction to Benny Chan's stunning photography: "Rush hour in Los Angeles is synonymous with gridlock, but the sheer enormity of the situation can be tough to grasp. Fortunately, there is the architecture photographer...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
So reports the Federal Highway Administration, even though gasoline prices were falling at the time. Especially significant is that the decline is in overall cumulative miles driven, not just miles driven per capita or per household. This is important: ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Now that the two major political parties have, for better or worse, formally nominated their candidates for president and vice president of the United States, I am reposting these two entries, with some minor updating. They were originally published on August 12...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
The NFL season starts this week, accompanying the beginning of fall, my favorite season. And, for me at least, football is an integral part of fall, always has been, always will be.For a decade I was a season ticketholder to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy
Dear Mr. President-elect*:As you may know, America is entering a period of rapid growth that will have a profound effect on our national well-being. As a result, you and your administration will have an unprecedented challenge, but also an unprecedented...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
California has a chance to pass an exciting new law that gives its metropolitan regions the opportunity and responsibility for reducing greenhouse gas emissions through sensible land use planning. This is long overdue – anyone can see the chaos on our...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Peter Goodman writes in today's New York Times: "Suddenly, the economics of American suburban life are under assault as skyrocketing energy prices inflate the costs of reaching, heating and cooling homes on the distant edges of metropolitan areas . . ."Life...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Yesterday I wrote about how Arlington, Virginia’s redevelopment along one of the Washington, DC region’s Metro subway lines has created an amazing amount of new mixed-use development - all without expanding the region’s development footprint, while preserving the community’s single-family residential...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
The Washington Post has a story today on page one (above the fold, for you media junkies, and you know who you are) about plans to make a real city out of the mess now known as Tysons Corner in...continued→
