April 23, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Is placemaking a "new environmentalism"?

Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
 
Can placemaking – in short, the building or strengthing of physical community fabric to create great human habitat – be a “new environmentalism”? … Continue reading

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February 13, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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City places that inspire romance (a gallery of walkability, part 2)

Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
 
  London (photo by Chuck Wolfe) 
There is a reason that romantic movies and novels are set in cities such as Paris, Rome, Prague, San Francisco, and New … Continue reading

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December 7, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Does the sustainable communities agenda have something to offer rural America?

Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
 
Much of the thinking among those of us concerned with how to accommodate a growing US population in a sustainable way focuses on our metropolitan regions – o… Continue reading

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November 4, 2011
by Dan Lashof
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What if California Cut Its Global Warming Pollution 80% and No One Noticed?

Dan Lashof, Program Director, Climate & Clean Air, Washington, D.C.
OK, California hasn’t cut its emissions that much yet, but in May the California Council on Science and Technology published an important study of how Califor… Continue reading

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