Green vs Gray Environmentalism (Video) – GreenBuildingAdvisor

Having seen similar disagreements play out here, I figured this would be worth sharing with the GBA community. While most of the content here is fairly agnostic to density, it seems like GBA is slowly moving in the “Gray” direction, particularly with Lloyd Alter’s pieces. If nothing else, I figured it may spark an interesting conversation and perhaps some future content.

https://youtu.be/Subp8jO-GIo?si=yXKu1rsbDKU8JpzT

Edit: The argument made is that higher density development patterns often result in development of land people see regularly, making that land more gray (buildings) instead of green (large yards, agriculture, and wildlands) results in overall better outcomes for the environment because it becomes an alternative to the default of suburban/exurban sprawl.