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Urban Population Density: The Environmental Pros & Cons

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Chris Jones, consumption, Dan Bertolet, dense, density, heat island effect, per capita, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Renewable & Appropriate Energy Lab, Sightline Institute, sprawl, Texas A&M, urban, urban sprawl 0 Comments

Experts weigh in on the environmental pros and cons of our the growing population density of cities across the United States and beyond.

Sustainable Cities

Interview: Stewart Schwartz

Ethan Goffman cities, commute, commuters, public, run-off, runoff, smart growth, sprawl, storm water, sustainable development, transit, transportation, urban, walkable, walkscore 0 Comments

In 1997, Stewart Schwartz founded the Coalition for Smarter Growth to fight sprawl and support public transit and walkable communities in the Washington, DC region. Schwartz is also an attorney and a retired Navy Captain with 24 years of active and reserve duty. He has served with the President’s Council on Sustainable Development, the Land […]

Going Green

Grand Canyon Perimeter Facing Sprawl

E The Environmental Magazine Center for Biological Diversity, development, Forest Service, Grand Canyon, National Park Service, sprawl, urban sprawl 1 Comment

The U.S. Forest Service today began paving the way for a sprawling urban development near the southern edge of the Grand Canyon that would include more than 2,100 housing units and 3 million square feet of retail space along with hotels, a spa and conference center. The superintendent of Grand Canyon National Park has called […]