tag: smart growth

feature stories

Designing Woman
For the visionary landscape designer Diana Balmori, green roofs are just scratching the surface. The real challenge is to rethink how our cities relate to their natural surroundings.
Comments (0) | May 28, 2009
multimedia

What Makes an Eco-Town Green: Rethinking Main Street with NRDC Smart Growth Director Kaid Benfield

Comments (0) | December 9, 2008
NRDC at work

Winter 2009: Eco-Towns, Denim, The Wild West
NRDC experts tackle many of the same issues covered in OnEarth by independent journalists. Here's a quick peek behind the headlines.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

Living in the City as a Global Warming Solution

Comments (1) | August 14, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

What's in a Green Building?

Comments (0) | June 18, 2008
frontlines

Growing Smarter
Will suburban sprawl ever slow down? For several years anecdotal evidence has suggested that smart growth policies are on the rise.
Comments (0) | May 28, 2008
frontlines

The De-Malling of America
Nothing has so disfigured our landscape as strip malls and big-box stores. But the same market forces that created them may now be turning them into dinosaurs.
Comments (8) | May 28, 2008
What's Happening OnEarth

Flying III: Would You Fly If You Had More Options?

Comments (4) | May 22, 2008
dispatches

Smart Towns
Redesigning our neighborhoods to reduce the amount of energy used for transportation, as well as the energy used in buildings themselves, is a key step in curbing global warming.
Comments (0) | June 1, 2007
Greenlight

Making the Case for Mountain Protection

Comments (0) | Jun 15, 2009