January 10, 2013
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Today’s article is guest-authored by my friend and frequent collaborator, Lee Epstein, an attorney and land use planner working for sustainability in the mid-Atlant… Continue reading
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by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Wow. For cities to succeed environmentally, they also need to be fun, right? Sprawl is dying and cities are the answer, but to finish the job one of ou… Continue reading
November 27, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
Just yesterday, I was making the case for bringing more nature into urban environments, to soften the perceived and real effects of density and thus make density m… Continue reading
April 25, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
In January of 2010, Toronto became the first city in North America to require the installation of green roofs on new commercial, institutional, and multifamily res… Continue reading
February 1, 2012
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
A bad economy hurts sustainability, in part because sustainability requires new approaches that must be funded, frequently with money from investors able and willing to ta… Continue reading
November 22, 2011
by Noah Garrison
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Noah Garrison, Project Attorney, Santa Monica
This past weekend saw one and one-third inches of rain fall over Los Angeles, just enough to foul the beaches with stormwater pollution, bury the 405 freeway in mud, and send torrents of rai… Continue reading
October 11, 2011
by Kaid Benfield
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Kaid Benfield, Director, Sustainable Communities, Washington, DC
The American Society of Landscape Architects has just released a massive database of 479 case studies describing the successful application of ”green … Continue reading
December 7, 2010
by Kaid Benfield
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One of my favorite bloggers, Aaron Renn (The Urbanophile), has a new post analyzing migration patterns of college graduates in the last decade, 2000-2009. In particular, he reports on changes in what might be called educated density, expressed as… Continue reading
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