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August 2, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Some welcome perspective on Walmart’s Sustainability Index
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Architect/thinker Steve Mouzon, whose very interesting perspective on neighborhood walkability was the subject of my article on Monday, is on a roll, and I&rs… Continue reading
July 30, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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How far will we walk to go somewhere? It depends.
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
We have a number of formal and informal ways to think about what makes a good walkable community. I’ve written before about the popsicle test (can a ch… Continue reading
June 25, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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When values collide: balancing green technology and historic buildings
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
I believe that historic preservation in the right context – a healthy neighborhood – can be intrinsically green. Most historic buildings, at leas… Continue reading
February 14, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Why lovable places matter to sustainability
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Yesterday I presented a gallery of places that inspire romance – places that kindle love, if you will. But I submit that they are also lovable themselv… Continue reading
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
December 28, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Can we balance the old and new as a place evolves?
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
We change with time, and so do our communities. In some cases the evolution may seem lightning-fast, in others slow; in some cases change brings obvious impr… Continue reading
November 28, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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The importance of legacy to sustainability
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
When we think of “sustainability,” we usually are considering the viability of a place or action into the future – as my friend Steve Mouzon puts… Continue reading
August 26, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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"The most sustainable trip is the one you never had to take in the first place"
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
The quote in today’s title comes from Alex Steffen, or more accurately from Steffen as presented in a terrific article on Treehugger by Lloyd Alter, summari… Continue reading
July 19, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Video week: does US-style planning and smart growth work elsewhere?
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC
American culture pervades the world – music, movies, cars, consumption. Not all of it is good. But surely sustainability is good, yes? Whi… Continue reading
July 12, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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The importance of place to sustainability
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC
I find that I am almost always thinking about the quality of places. Hanging out with the likes of David Dixon, Victor Dover, and Steve Mouzon will do that to… Continue reading
June 16, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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The greenest (historic) building is the one that’s in the right context
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC I’m in Wilmington, Delaware this week, where I was asked (and honored) to speak to an EPA-sponsored symposium on green historic preservation. I spoke … Continue reading
Share on FacebookMay 16, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Interested in sustainable buildings and places? There’s an app for that
Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, Washington, DC My friend Steve Mouzon has built an iPhone application that aggregates hand-picked news and discussion about sustainable cities, towns, neighborhoods, and buildings.&n… Continue reading
Share on FacebookMarch 3, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Is there a downside to "intelligent cities" or "smart cities"?
“Intelligent cities” and “smart cities” are all the rage right now, especially in corporate image advertising related to emerging technology. But is there a downside?
I think there may be, insofar as those phrases are used to describe tec… Continue reading
January 3, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Can communities foster wellness of body, mind and spirit?
I wrote quite a bit toward the end of last year about the connection between places that are sustainable environmentally and those that are sustainable as a matter of health, notably this post on walkability (which I should have retitled) and t… Continue reading
December 9, 2010
by Kaid Benfield
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A recovering engineer posts a photo of "sustainability"
Regular readers will know that I’m a fan of Chuck Marohn’s Strong Towns Blog. Recently he has been taking some polite (he’s a midwesterner to the core, or so it seems in his writing) shots at the engineering profession, of which he is a member.&n… Continue reading
Share on FacebookSeptember 22, 2010
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Mapping a walkable lifestyle – the web of daily life
At the top of this post is a marked satellite photo indicating the locations of sustainable architect Steve Mouzon’s house and, a few blocks away, his office, both in Miami Beach. A walking route between the two is also indicated.
S… Continue reading
August 16, 2010
by Kaid Benfield
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The case for living small
Frequent readers probably know that the ever-provocative, Miami-based architect (and, I would argue, philosopher) Steve Mouzon is on my short list of Other Writers Who Make Me Think. His latest Original Green post does not disappoi… Continue reading