Check out the pilot episode for American Makevover, hot off the press.
Check out the pilot episode for American Makevover, hot off the press.
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LEED is expanding its scope - from its myopic focus on the environmental details of a single building or house, to looking at how whole neighborhoods are designed to function - and how that impacts the environment.
Luckily, it's not that complicated. Whereas LEED for buildings is a highly technical, high-tech affair involving infinite choices and decisions about, for example, which non-flush toilet best deals with waste while wasting the least amount of water; LEED for neighborhoods (aka LEED-ND) is much simpler. Make sidewalks, give people places to walk, ditch single-use zoning.
Check out this article from Oregon: "Next Big Thing: Green Neighborhoods"
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Pardon the morbid thought that follows:
Some people prefer the supposed safety of suburbs over the violence of the city. But the suburbs require lots of driving, which inevitably means lots of car accidents. This made me wonder: for the average American, what are the odds of dying in a car accident versus the odds of being murdered?
WikiAnswers supplied some sourced information for this:
Odds of dying in a car accident in your lifetime: 1 in 100 (wikianswer page)
Odds of being murdered in your lifetime: 1 in 3780 (wikianswer page)
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Read through the comments on our "Built to Last" youtube video about new urbanism. Most are positive, but among the negative you'll find a common theme: a mistaken notion that new urbanism is some heavy-handed government dictate.
Far from it. New urbanism is a popular movement. People want to live in walkable, safe, vibrant neighborhoods.
Unfortunately the government is heavily subsidizing the suburbs (as this Boston Globe article points out) and their single-use zoning policies make walkable neighborhoods illegal in many places.
The suspicion about heavy-handed government turns out to be true...but it's suburban sprawl that is being forced on us!
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The Congress for the New Urbanism's official blog / newsletter features a profile (and great plug) for our project - AND they announced they'll offer a free full pass to CNU18 in Atlanta for the project's top donor!
Check it out here at the CNU blog.
A big thank-you to our friends at CNU!
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