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Visions for transforming America: NRDC launches exciting new web feature!
Switchboard, from NRDC —
... We believe strongly that this can be done in a way that not only is environmentally sustainable but also can bring "America the Beautiful" to the communities where we live, work, and shop. And now, we have an exciting new web feature that shows how it can be done. ...
Inside NRDC's new smart growth web feature: how it works
Switchboard, from NRDC —
Yesterday, I was honored to announce the launch of NRDC's new interactive smart growth website, Picturing Smart Growth. Here's a little about how it works.
When you click on the main link, you'll be taken to this introductory screen:
You have a number of tabs and options, but many people will want to go first to Explore Locations, which brings up this map of the US, with icons showing the various site locations where we feature smart growth transformation scenarios:
You can search just below the map by category, which I'll return to. But let's say you are ...
Picturing Smart Growth
Landscape+Urbanism —
... (NRDC) alerted me to an interesting visual tool they had recently unveiled, called Picturing Smart Growth" A short overview: "With generous assistance from our friends at ...
Resource: Picturing Smart Growth
Worldchanging: Bright Green —
Intersection%20of%20unsustainable%20and%20smart%20growth.jpg The sound of traffic, the smell of exhaust, the sight of strip malls, gas stations and fast-food chains; your senses tell you that you’re standing at the busy intersection of a city suburb. But as you look out at the concrete scatter and toxic sprawl, what you might not so readily see is that you’re also standing at a metaphorical crossroads – where one road leads to more of the same, and the other toward the opportunity to transform the space around you. A new tool from the Natural Resources Defense Council ...
Cut'n'Paste Cities and "Design a Livable Street" - fun interactivity
Switchboard, from NRDC —
Cut'n'Paste Cities is a web-based participatory project that invites readers to share what they like best (and least) about cities, through their own photographs:
"A global call to action and an invitation to urban dwellers to describe through photography the places and things they love about their cities, and those that they could do without.
"The brief is to capture through photography what you really like in a city, what makes it tick, and what you would like to see more of in the future. They can be spaces or services, aspects of everyday life ...
