Washington, DC and Arlington County, VA recently launched a bike share program, Capital Bikeshare, making over 1,100 bikes available at 110 stations. With 11,000 members, it is already the largest in the nation. These programs have been successful in Europe and have sprouted up throughout the US as cities look to provide greener, cheaper, healthier [...]
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Bike Sharing: Increasing Transportation Choices, Saving Communities Money, Creating Better Places
May 15th, 2011 
Stephen Wade 
Posted in Behavior, Economics, Policy, Real Estate, Sustainable Development, Transportation 
Tags: Bicycles, Bike Sharing, Cars, Pollution, Stephen Wade, Washington DC 
No Comments »Social Media and Smart Growth: Do New Communication Tools Lead to Greener Outcomes?
March 30th, 2011 Stephen Wade Community planning is a luxury, currently available to people who have the time and money to attend. Retired people, people without kids, and people with means can spend time sitting through hearings, speaking to public bodies and generally making their voices heard. People with kids, lower income families, and young professionals find it much more [...]
Posted in Behavior, Featured Posts, Policy, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Stephen Wade, Urban Planning, Washington DC 2 Comments »Two Ways to Save the Environment: Live in a City and Walk
March 3rd, 2011 Stephen Wade More than half of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions come from moving people and goods and housing those people (see slide 10). Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser, in a recent Atlantic magazine article (as well as here and here), makes the case that living in smaller homes and driving less significantly reduces one’s carbon emissions. Therefore, [...]
Posted in Behavior, Green Building, Policy, Real Estate, Sustainable Development, Transportation Tags: Energy Conservation, Stephen Wade No Comments »The Next Frontier in Real Estate: Can it Serve Everyone?
January 31st, 2011 Stephen Wade Real estate is funny. In the not too distant past, everyone was moving to the exurbs, far to the edges of our metropolitan areas. Gas was cheap, land was cheap, traffic didn’t seem too bad. Then the costs of that lifestyle became more evident. It shrunk our pocketbooks, degraded our health and hurt our environment. [...]
Posted in Behavior, Featured Posts, Policy, Real Estate, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Cars, Stephen Wade, Urban Planning, Washington DC No Comments »The Importance of Place in Sustainability
December 16th, 2009 Eric Wilson Much of the writing in academic circles and popular nonfiction regarding sustainability reiterates the importance of place in sustainability. In fact, one of our earliest guest posts on 2nd Green Revolution was titled “Place Really Does Matter.” From academics like David Sobel at Antioch University in Keene, New Hampshire to nature advocate Richard Louv – [...]
Posted in Education, Eric Wilson, Op-Ed, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Tags: Environment, Richard Louv, Stephen Wade 1 Comment »Place Really Does Matter
March 8th, 2009 Stephen Wade by Stephen Wade, Guest Author As the economy continues to slide deeper into recession and we debate how to most effectively use the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, there is the question over what role our cities and metropolitan areas can and should play. Interestingly, the “World is Flat” school of thought espoused by Thomas [...]
Smart Growth, Housing, and Balance
February 19th, 2009 Stephen Wade by Stephen Wade, Guest Author Arlington County’s mixed-use development along its public transit corridor has allowed it to weather the financial calamity better than most any other jurisdiction in the country. The balance of residential and commercial development has kept revenue high as the County is not dependent on only one type of development. This balance [...]
Posted in Economics, Guest Authors, Sustainable Development Tags: Smart Growth, Stephen Wade 1 Comment »Smart Growth
February 9th, 2009 Stephen Wade by Stephen Wade, Guest Author Smart growth is building our communities compactly with a mix of uses (housing, retail, schools, etc.), reinvesting in areas that already have infrastructure, protecting open space, and providing housing opportunities. Transportation investments benefit our economy and communities when they are coordinated with and leveraged by land use decisions. The infamous [...]
