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What Makes Affordable Housing ‘Green’?

There's no one way to determine what makes "green" housing. Here's a breakdown of the standards and considerations used by the affordable housing industry.

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Equity

Sustainability’s Bottom Line

Are our presidential candidates (yes, including vice presidential candidate Clinton) thinking about sustainable initiatives for environmental improvement, city vitality, and sound fiscal order? Or is the sustainability movement still regarded […]

Equity

The Big Blue Bin

Everybody’s into recycling, and using cloth grocery bags, and vaguely associated issues like not tossing your used-up D-cells in the trash. Everybody?

Equity

Preparing for Peak Oil: Nutty Survivalism or Crucial Equity Issue?

Should community developers and other low-income community advocates be concerned about preparing for life after peak oil? We all know that the greed of the banking industry is responsible for […]

Equity

Could High Gas Prices Have Positive Side Effects?

With The New York Times reporting an increase in mass-transit ridership as gas prices continue to climb, I’m reminded of my days as a mass-transit commuter, when I got rid […]

Policy

Energy and Low-Income Housing: Part II

In the past, members of the community development movement have had little to do with anything that smacks of environmentalism. Conversely, members of the mainstream American environmental movement have shown […]