I had the pleasure of meeting Scott Wiener a few times when I lived in San Francisco. He was then on the Board of Supervisors, representing District 8, the other side of the city from my apartment in the Presidio. We were on a panel together…
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I can’t say it any better than Enrico Moretti in his New York Times op-ed on the severe housing and environmental crisis raging in the Bay Area, brought to painful light by the recent wildfires in Napa and Sonoma counties. As Moretti, an economist at UC…
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An interesting angle in the New York Times on the nexus between the housing shortage in California and the impact of the recent Wine Country fires, which has left many who lost their homes with few options for temporary shelter owing to a lack of available…
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October 19, 2017 | Adaptive Futures, Cities, Compact Development, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban TransformationSustainable development, impact real estate, smart growth, equitable development. Whatever you want to call it, I’d like to suggest it really starts with housing, which is currently in a crisis mode. Having moved back to Boulder in 2016 after five years in San Francisco, I can…
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October 19, 2017 | Biophilic Immersion, Carbon-Free Advantage, Cities, Compact Development, Ecosystem Management, Equity, Green Infrastructure, Guest Blogger, Urban Transformation
Until the summer of 2016, I spent the first 25 years of my career in the non-profit sector advocating, teaching, lawyering, writing and entrepreneuring for social change as sustainable communities. I built two successful non-profits from scratch, both Boston-based and dedicated to greening low-income neighborhoods and…
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