Here at 2nd Green Revolution, we think about transportation, smart growth, and walkable/carless cities. After watching No Impact Man last week, we decided to resurrect a poll that had been on the shelf for a while. Take a moment to tell us how you commute to work. If you use a combination of these forms, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Smart Growth’
Poll: How Do You Get To Work?
October 6th, 2009 
Eric Wilson 
Posted in Eric Wilson, Polls, Sustainable Development, Transportation 
Tags: Bus, Carless Cities, Smart Growth, Trains 
No Comments »The Kentlands Celebrates 20 Years of New Urbanist Bliss
June 9th, 2009 Eric Wilson In the suburbs of Washington D.C., the development known as The Kentlands recently celebrated the twentieth anniversary of its founding. The community is one of the earliest examples of New Urbanist architecture. In fact, it is often touted as the oldest such development. Along with towns such as Seaside, Florida and Stapleton in Denver, Colorado, [...]
Inspirational Eulogy; Putting the Earth Together
May 27th, 2009 Justin Manger Hot, Flat, and Crowded, by Thomas Friedman, ends with him quoting a eulogy. The eulogy is for Donella H. “Dana” Meadows, a “Dartmouth-based environmental expert and writer” who died in 2001. The remarks at her memorial service were made by Amory Lovins, chairman of the Rocky Mountain Institute, and they express the kind of cautious [...]
Posted in Education, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainable Development Tags: Energy, Op-Ed, Quotations, Smart Growth, Thomas Friedman No Comments »A Carless City Emerges Outside Freiburg, Germany
May 15th, 2009 Eric Wilson Frieburg, Germany is already a leader in solar energy (despite its northern latitude and cloudy climate) as discussed in two earlier posts (one on Ecopolis and the other on Germany’s solar industry). In another example of sustainable development, The New York Times reported that Vauban, a suburb of the southern German city near the Swiss [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Cars, Smart Growth No Comments »Lessons for a Sustainable Future: Learning from Las Vegas Revisited
May 12th, 2009 Eric Wilson More than 35 years ago American architect Robert Venturi along with Denise Scott Brown and Steven Izenour published a treatise on architecture titled Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of the Architectural Form. The premise of the work relates to a perceived need at the time for a shift in architectural design and meaning. [...]
