Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Transportation for America's website introduces its important new report, Dangerous by Design, with an attention-grabbing statistic: "In the last 15 years, more than 76,000 Americans have been killed while crossing or walking along a street in their community. More...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
A planning concept that is gaining favor as a guide to creating smart, convenient places conducive to green living is the "20-minute neighborhood": a place where you can meet all of your daily needs within a 20-minute journey, preferably...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil
Streetfilms has come through again with a great (if unsettling) 2-minute video on the hazards of crossing city streets. It was shot in New York, but it could have been made in any number of places where car-pedestrian interactions are...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
I've had a number of posts about the importance of street connectivity in promoting walking and cycling and shortening driving trips. The best of them was Rachel's terrific guest post, explaining the pitfalls when she was a kid trying to...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
As many readers of this blog already know, Orenco Station was built as one of the country's first new, suburban transit-oriented developments. It's on Portland's MAX light rail line in Hillsborough, Oregon, and comprises some 1,850 housing units...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Distracted driving kills people. One would think that would be enough. But, sadly, in 44 states of the good old USA, you can blather away, cellphone to ear, and drive 60 miles per hour if you want. In 33 states,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably
Sharon and I often marvel at how over-scheduled and over-supervised the lives of our friends' kids seem to be. Although we grew up in different environments, she in a ranch house in a then-new suburb of DC and me in...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Earlier this week I highlighted Copenhagen's experience with creating car-free streets and a welcoming environment for walkers. This latest short video from Streetfilms focuses on another international leader, Curitiba, Brazil. Mostly known for its pioneering bus rapid transit system, Curitiba...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 Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming
Via tweets from Streetsblog and the Hillsborough County (FL) metropolitan planning organization, I just came across an article about how Copenhagen has made itself one of the world's best cities for walkers. The city is world-renowned, of course, for...continued→
