The Huffington Post on Baldwin
Somehow we missed this Huffington Post column from a few weeks back discussing Ground Level's adventures in Baldwin Township.
Writes F. Kaid Benfield, director of the Natural Resources Defense Council's Smart Growth Program and contributor to HuffPo's "Village Green" blog:
"Its story is like that of many rural and once-rural places in America: First, a small community is populated with independent souls...who are drawn to the easy-going, peaceful lifestyle... But, over time, others become attracted to the same lifestyle. And, if the town is located within driving distance of a job center, some of the newcomers are commuters, reaping the rewards of a city or suburban job on weekdays while coming home in the evenings and on the weekends to a more bucolic environment.
This, essentially, was the promise of the great suburban migration of the 1950s and 1960s. As readers of this blog know, that migration exacted an environmental, economic, and social price."
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