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Rethinking environmental impacts to manage growth

May 13, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Curbing Pollution , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
carbon, co2, driving, growth-management, impervious-surface, runoff, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl, stormwater

 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...

How much the US will grow, and where: numbers and a map

May 12, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , The Media and the Environment , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
development, growth-management, housing, population, projection, smart-growth, smartgrowth, sprawl

 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...

The country’s best smart growth project – the Atlanta Beltline

March 14, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Moving Beyond Oil , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
atlanta, beltline, cityparks, neighborhood, publictransportation, smartgrowth, sustainabledevelopment, transit, workforcehousing

I’m a bit fickle about this.  At first I was sure the country's best example of smart growth was Atlantic Station, in Atlanta.  Then I thought it was one of the iconic transit-oriented developments in the west, The Crossings in Silicon Valley or...

The kids are alright - Smart Growth America grabs a good one

January 4, 2008

Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
development, environmentalprotection, smartgrowth

 As you know, I've been sad to see my friend Don Chen leave Smart Growth America, the national coalition that Don and a handful of others including myself founded several years ago to promote sustainable development.  Fortunately, I can now...

Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield
Director, Smart Growth Program
Washington, DC
I was raised in the mountains of western North Carolina, surrounded by some of the...
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