Kaid Benfield

Feds help local sustainability

Director, Sustainable Communities & Smart Growth, NRDC; co-founder, LEED-ND rating system, Nov 29, 11.

Tagged with sustainability, local communities

This is exactly how the federal government should be supporting sustainability: helping communities who want to do the right thing for their environments, economies, and residents. Congress in its stupidity wisdom may have just used the federal budget to zero out the sustainability assistance program of the Department of Housing and Urban Development but, in what may be its last round of major grants for a good while, HUD yesterday awarded $97 million dollars for planning and other efforts in 27 regions and 29 communities across 32 states. The residents of those communities will be the better for it, and so will the planet.

Full Story: For Once, the Federal Government Gets Sustainability Right
Source: The Atlantic Cities, November 22, 2011

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