Urban Land Green - Spring 2009 - Table of Content

Food for Thought: Nurturing eco-friendly communities

The successful systems-based model of green building is being scaled up and integrated into larger planning projects to make both new and existing neighborhoods more sustainable.

Ten Keys to a Low-Carbon Community
By Steven Kellenberg

A practitioner offers cost-saving methods to help address climate change.

Hali'imaile
By  Diane M. Dale

A new community in Maui will benefit from a more sustaining approach to development that integrates spatial planning, site systems, and built form.

Returning to Their Roots
By Jamie Thomas and Colin Drukker

A look at how scalable agriculture can create more sustainable suburban communities.

Learning from Europe
By Jerry Yudelson

The future of sustainable design in North America is going to look a lot more like what is already found in western Europe.

Transportation Solutions
By Arlee T. Reno, Joanne R. Potter, and William A. Cowart

Research shows that very significant reductions in greenhouse gases can be achieved through mobility-related measures that also save money and support strong economic growth. 

The Green Quotient: Q&A with César Ulises Treviño
By Charles Lockwood

"[Mexico has] regulations for energy efficiency sustainable management of the site, and hazardous waste. But if you are talking about advanced ideas—indoor air quality life-cycle analysis, or green building products—we are not there yet."

GreenPieces 

Sri Lanka Aspires to Have the World's First Carbon-Neutral Factory

ULI Europe Introduces Energy Exchange Initiative

Community Rain Gardens Support Urban Renewal

Green Roof Sprouts on Minneapolis's Target Center

First Leed Platinum Neighborhood

SpeakOut: Innovation

Will the Passive House Be the Next Prius?
By John K. McIlwain

Developed in Germany in 1991, these homes need little or no supplemental energy for heating or cooling.

SpeakOut: Legislation

Creating a Framework for a Green Economy
By David Burwell

Congress is debating two new initiatives—governing climate protection and transportation spending—that will significantly affect the quality and profitability of future development.

SpeakOut: Metrics

Quadruple Bottom Line
By Kurt Culbertson

A landscape architecture, land planning, and urban design firm expands on the traditional definition of sustainable development to add a fourth dimension—art.

GreenLights 

Design

University Dorms Double as Green Design Labs
By Dirk Denison

Part of a major ongoing campuswide commitment to improve energy and resource use efficiency at the Illinois Institute of Technology, two new sustainably designed residences—one with add-on technologies and one without—will serve as a controlled experiment in which building performance and student behavior can be tracked and analyzed.

Capital Markets

Responsible Property Investment Criteria
By Kirk Sykes

RPI seems to have gained some momentum in the marketplace over the last year.

At Issue 

Connecting Climate Change and Land Use
By Patrick Pontius

While California's Senate Bill 375 has momentum, there is much debate around its potential effectiveness.

Open Space

America's Greenest Airport
By Joe Tannehill

The construction of a 4,000-acre airport has led to the protection of 41,000 environmentally sensitive acres.

Back Page

Nature's Solution to a World in Crisis
By Ray C. Anderson

We should look to ecosystems to find the model needed to redesign and balance—and thus optimize—the trade-off between resilience and efficiency in the financial system.

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