Showing posts with label sustainable development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sustainable development. Show all posts

Monday, November 22, 2010

Angry defenders of suburbia?

Lovely. Are the Tea Partiers going to be pro-sprawl as well?

The Tea Party targets... sustainable development?

Are those who support walkable communities, transit-oriented development, and smart growth ready for an onslaught of Tea Party activism? Mother Jones reports that some conservative activists believe that "smart growth is really a global conspiracy to herd Americans into 'human habitation zones.' "

[...] The issue even flared up briefly during the midterms, when Colorado Republican gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes accused his Democratic opponent of using a bike-sharing program to convert Denver into a "United Nations community."