To avoid small costs, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be creating big costs for everyone, including the federal government.

  Designer/educator Christine Franck and I travel in some of the same urbanist circles.  Recently she was a visiting profess...

  Walmart plans to expand into urban markets with smaller stores that carry fresh food, writes Jayne O’Donnell in USA Today.  O&rsquo...

The country’s first comprehensive system for defining, measuring, and certifying smart, green land development is now fully open for business. T...

A new state-sponsored report reveals that smart planning could bring dramatic environmental and economic benefits to California, while troub...

  We know we need to absorb more people and homes in our existing communities in order to avoid the unacceptable environmental, economic and soc...

Today’s title comes from Jeff Holm, chair of the Board of Supervisors for Baldwin Township, Minnesota.  Baldwin is a rural community s...

What journalists and even environmentalists so often fail to do in reporting on Wal-Mart's sustainability announcements is to provide some context. C...

  “The biggest fight I think we’ll see in the next ten years is the fight between people in cities who are trying to transform them ...

For most of the US Green Building Council's LEED for Homes award winners, the residences' green features will be offset by the damage caused by the sites' automobile dependence, and distance from jobs and services.

"Ocean sprawl" is a combination of offshore oil rigs, shipping lanes, wind farms and ever more ocean uses--and it puts increased pressure on ocean and coastal resources already under enormous strain.