Research and Publications - Good Government & Responsible Development

  •   Building Better II
    A Guide to America’s Best New Development Projects
    CLEAN WATER EDITION

    2006

    Stormwater runoff and sewage overflows
    are growing threats to the health of our
    water. Across the country sprawling
    developments are generating huge amounts of
    sewage and stormwater runoff. Land that used
    to absorb rain is being paved over, creating
    more runoff than treatment systems can handle.
    The end result is that more untreated or poorly
  •   Building Better
    A Guide to America’s Best New Development Projects
    2005


    Curbing Sprawl, Building Healthy Communities

    Much of the development in the United States
    today is sprawling, low density, car-dependent “bigbox”
    or “strip-mall” construction, which produces
    more and more traffic and harms our land, air, and
    water. The Sierra Club believes there is a better way
    to build, and in doing so, to produce healthy
  •   No Justice, No Growth: How Los Angeles is making big-time developers create decent jobs.
    By Harold Meyerson


    http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=no_justice_no_growth