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Complete Streets bills now in House and Senate
... so the road network can be gradually improved for everyone. Find out more information and track the bills’ progress on the Complete Streets federal policy page, and on the Smart Growth America action page. -> Share or email this story.

Smart Growth America
"Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the ways we plan and build the towns, cities and metro areas we call home. The coalition includes many of the best-known national ...

Geoff Anderson Takes Helm at Smart Growth America
Don Chen, the very sharp founding executive director of Smart Growth America, announced late last year that he was taking a position with the Ford Foundation. Interesting move for a canny advocate and non-profit executive with the sort ...

Smart Growth Veteran Geoffrey Anderson Selected to Serve as ...
“Smart Growth America and its coalition have played a crucial role in asking the question; ‘Isn’t there a better way?’ “ Anderson added. “Now, we are working with communities to implement some of the answers. ...

Norm Berg, conservationist extraordinaire, 1918-2008
Moreover, without AFT, along with NRDC one of the original founders of Smart Growth America, there might be no national smart growth coalition. Ralph, who considers Norm one of his most important mentors, served as chair of SGA's board ...

Measuring the true cost of housing: location, location, location
Yesterday, The Center for Neighborhood Technology, an SGA coalition member, along with the Brookings Institution, released a new web-based tool to measure housing affordability — by also measuring the transportation costs inherent in a ...

The kids are alright - Smart Growth America grabs a good one
As you know, I've been sad to see my friend Don Chen leave Smart Growth America, the national coalition that Don and a handful of others including myself founded several years ago to promote sustainable development. ...

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www.smartgrowthamerica.org –Smart Growth America www.smartgrowth.org –Smart Growth www.communitygarden.org –American Community Gardening Association www.postcarbon.org –AMAZING RESOURCE, Post Carbon cities, relocalize ...

Our homes are holding their value better!
David Goldberg of Smart Growth America, a national coalition of planners and environmentalists, points to what his hometown, Atlanta, was like in the 1990s. “Atlanta was recognized as the fastest-spreading human settlement, ...

Photo Essay: Arbor Day and the North Street Woods
"We grew so rapidly in the '80s and '90s in the rate we were consuming land, people did become alarmed," says David Goldberg, spokesman for Smart Growth America, a national coalition promoting green space. "This desire for parkland and ...

Energy, smart growth, climate change and the 2008 candidates (Part 1)
As a reminder, Smart Growth America is neither endorsing a candidate or a party. This is solely for informational purposes only. Have we missed something or has a candidate changed their stance? Let us know in the comments. ...

Coal Industry “Principles”?
The Coal Industry came a callin’, complaining that I had not adequately examined their “principles” in commenting on the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity’s (ACCCE’s) new advertising campaign that bears an unnerving ...

Complete Streets bill introduced in the Senate
Smart Growth America calls for citizens to contact their Senators and ask them to co-sponsor The Complete Streets Act of 2008, S. 2686. See further discussion of the legislation. More information is also available at the National ...

Earth Day News Tip
Greener lifestyles and renewable technologies would save the day and with the oxymoronic fraud of “smart growth”, we could pretend that we could shoe-horn half the world into this continent merely by channeling, or “managing” growth. ...

Smart Growth America is an organization I recently discovered that ...
Smart Growth America is made up of a coalition of organizations at national, state, and local levels fighting to improve the country overall. The preservation/revitalization wing supports the planning of "urban sprawl" and efforts to ...

A couple articles from the intertubes
A recent major study, Growing Cooler, published by Smart Growth America, a coalition of national, state, and local organizations that addresses urban planning, makes the point clearly: If 60% of new developments were even modestly more ...

Complete Streets Legislation in US Sentate
... of the National Complete Streets Coalition Steering Committee. Other members include Active Living by Design, Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Smart Growth America, ...

Realtor.org Survey: People Want Mass Transit, Not New Roads
Smart Growth America is a diverse coalition of nearly 100 nonprofit organizations with a stake in how metropolitan expansion affects our environment, quality of life and economic sustainability. Coalition partners include national, ...

Cost-benefit environmentalism
By using economics to show just how wasteful under-regulation can be, cost-benefit environmentalism can be the key to creating the political coalition necessary to make America richer by regulating more wisely.

“A Cornered Rat Defending a Lot of Stolen Gold will Fight Very ...
I would not bet on the center-right Leave Us Alone Coalition in France or Bulgaria. I do tend to think that in the United States that’s the more likely team to win. But both teams get times at bat. Both teams get to be smart and stupid. ...

Energy Depletion Solutions
Metro sprawl data is from Smart Growth America 2002 study, "Measuring Sprawl and Its Impact" * Heating oil use from primary research conducted in 2007. Half Weighting (x.5) * Carpooling, from the 2006 American Community Survey, ...

Olmert Bribery Scandal: Investors View
He is lead portfolio manager for the Israel Growth Portfolio and Managing Director of America Israel Investment Associates, LLC. For more information, go to www.israelnewsletter.com or call 1-888-327-6179, ...

New Smart Growth Network State by State News Headlines — January 2008
EPA Smart Growth Veteran Geoffrey Anderson to Lead at Smart Growth America “With states tackling climate change, concern over energy independence and gas prices rising and the national transportation law coming up for debate, ...

Iranian Coach Runs Over US Highway Robbers
In the rapidly intensifying international energy game, Iran holds a master key to the most staggering roadblock to India's economic growth - energy insecurity. With the issue of energy cooperation expected to dominate talks on Tuesday ...

Struggling Detroit Communities Spark Launch of National Community ...
Community Development Group, Inc. (SCDG), a not-for-profit corporation working with the public, private and community sectors to advance environmental sustainability, equitable development and global smart growth. ...

Interview: Tom Perriello, Candidate for Congress (VA-05)
We all benefit from an improved economy in Southside and ensuring smart growth in central Virginia. For example, Southside is perfectly positioned to be at the forefront of the new energy economy, and Charlottesville has the economic ...

GO Iowa! - The G-reat O-utdoors of Iowa
If you've ever done anything in politics you'll immediately recognize that this is a potential coalition the likes of which has seldom existed. Not only does it involve large numbers of individuals, the diversity is as broad as America ...

October 2007 Newsletter
A report released this month by Smart Growth America and the Urban Land Institute, Growing Cooler, found found that people who live in compact urban neighborhoods drive about a third less than those living in sprawl. ...

Release: Smart Growth America Founder Don Chen to Advance ...
Smart Growth America is a non-profit coalition of national, state and local organizations working to improve the planning and development of America’s towns, cities and metro areas. On the web at www.smartgrowthamerica.org. ...

The Community Revitalization Alliance Launched at the Brownfields ...
DETROIT, May 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Responding to the plight of Detroit communities and other communities in America struggling to combat the impacts of a negative economy, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) and Deeohn Ferris, ...

Smart Growth America
WASHINGTON, DC After eight years as the founding executive director and CEO of Smart Growth America (SGA), Don Chen has accepted a leadership appointment at the Ford Foundation, the country’s second largest philanthropy. ...

Modern Language Association
National Center for Smart Growth. 1112Q Preinkert Field House . Modern Language Association Citation Professor Asrat is the founding member of the Ethiopian Medical Association (EMA), Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Scotland ...

Developer Rights v. Private Property Rights - Guess Whose Trumps Whose
Couple that with a few weeks back when I saw Tim Davis, Executive Director of the Montana Smart Growth Coalition speak. The 35 gpm well exemption was, he said, one of the bigger contributors to sprawl. To paraphrase Mr. Davis: ...

Greenbelt Alliance: Executive Director
Using knowledge of the field, recognize open space and smart growth policy trends and position Greenbelt Alliance to capitalize upon them. Fold together policy analysis, fundraising capability, coalition building, ...

Air
Air Tran The federal Environmental Protection Agency has released important new research detailing the benefits of smart growth on transportation emissions and air quality. smog above LA's Pasadena Freeway - photo by Aliazimi, ...

NAC In San Francisco This Week! Events, News and More.
Sarah is a board member of the Transportation and Land Use Coalition (TALC) and has taught land use planning at San Francisco State University. She is the author of “Smart Growth and Community Development Corporations: Putting Policy ...

SAN FRANCISCO TO HOST ECOCITY WORLD SUMMIT 2008 World’s Best and ...
Speakers include architect and master planner Jaime Lerner, former Mayor of Curitiba Brazil; former Governor of Maryland Parris Glendening, President of Smart Growth America Leadership Institute; Wang Rusong, President of the Ecological ...

Some end-of-year tributes – raise a glass of nog or grog to three ...
My third and final tribute must go to my close friend, Don Chen, who has headed our national coalition Smart Growth America ever since its founding way back in the 20th century. It just about kills me that he has decided to leave the ...

BBC response on Calverton Grasslands/EPCAL
Numerous Eastern Meadowlarks, American Kestrels, Northern Harriers, Field Sparrows, and Eastern Bluebirds were some of the species that enlightened my experience that day. That same experience I felt can be shared by the many after me ...

Organic Bytes: Coming Clean, Farm Bill, Food Crisis, & Whole Foods
Take Action- http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/642/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24328. WEST VIRGINIA: West Virginia's 2008 Legislative Session Wraps up with Progress on Smart Growth and Energy Efficiency ...

Talk host new cars start of th season with Pontiac
Heavyweights like AARP, the Kicker competition Alliance and Smart Growth America have joined the National Complete Streets Coalition and are bringing their political power to bear with striking results. Food costs at the wholesale level ...

United Front
So it’s no wonder, then, that a handful of marine-related companies serving the megayacht market in San Diego have joined together to promote America’s Finest City in this way, forming the San Diego Superyacht Association (SDSA). ...

The "Complete Streets" movement
Its members cover an amazing gamut -- from America Bikes and AARP, Smart Growth America and the American Society of Landscape Architects to Paralyzed Veterans of America. The Institute of Transportation Engineers is even on board, ...

James Brown: Hot Pants (Part 1)/ (Part 2 and 3) (Columbia 2986)
Letters on Smart Growth. Sell PDQ counter display. Rilevare la memoria di un palmare. The Online Life of NIU Killer Stephen Kazmierczak. Hampton Angels: Hampton Angels Launch Party an Incredible Success ...

And the Scully goes to . . .
It was also Dick who hosted the early talks among those of us interested in the topic in the mid-1990s that morphed into the national coalition Smart Growth America. He’s been great for the Trust and great for our cause, and he’sa nice ...

Gas Prices and Real Estate
David Goldberg of Smart Growth America, a national coalition of planners and environmentalists, points to what his hometown, Atlanta, was like in the 1990s. "Atlanta was recognized as the fastest-spreading human settlement, ...

Complete Streets Gain a National Voice
Its members cover an amazing gambit -- from America Bikes and AARP, Smart Growth America and the American Society of Landscape Architects to Paralyzed Veterans of America. The Institute of Transportation Engineers is even on board, ...

More Complete Streets
Barbara McCann, the Coalition’s executive director, credits David Goldberg of Smart Growth America with coining the term “Complete Streets.” If providing more space for cyclists results in wider rights-of-way, this might conflict with ...

Sprawl-Mart, part two
In Wal-Mart’s case, when they first approached NRDC and a few other organizations about working with them, I proposed that they meet with our Smart Growth America coalition, and sent them some perfectly reasonable suggestions for how we ...

Density Makes You Smarter
Houston is in many ways the antithesis of high density, command-and-control cities like Portland, Oregon. There’s even a conference, hosted by the American Dream Coalition, coming up in May to talk about what Houston does so well. ...

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Cycling News Roundup - 7 May 2008
George Hincapie of team High Road will return to defend his title in the Tour of Missouri international cycling race, September 8-14. George is also lending his image to marketing the race. As you can see in the race poster below that will be used in all the marketing of the race.

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Struggling Detroit Communities Spark Launch of National Community Revitalization Alliance
Responding to the plight of Detroit communities and other communities in America struggling to combat the impacts of a negative economy, Congressman John Conyers Jr. (D-MI) and Deeohn Ferris, President of Sustainable Community Development Group, announced today the launch of the National Community Revitalization Alliance. The announcement was made at the Brownfields 2008 National Conference in ...

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Smart Growth America
Nationwide coalition promoting a better way to grow: one that protects farmland and open space, revitalizes neighborhoods, keeps housing affordable, and provides more transportation choices.

Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America is a coalition of national, state and local organizations ... Smart Growth America ... help people understand how they can change the ...

Montana Smart Growth Coalition (MSGC)
Working to support safe and healthy communities, sustainable economies, conservation of farm, forest and ranch lands, and protection of natural resources and wildlife habitat. MSGC offers a number of Montana smart growth case studies.

SGN Partner: Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America is a coalition of nearly 100 advocacy organizations that ... Smart Growth America. 1707 L Street, NW. Suite 1050. Washington, DC 20036 ...

Smart Growth America Publications
Smart Growth America is a coalition of nearly 100 advocacy organizations that ... Visit the Smart Growth America website for information on publications listed on ...

Resources
... booklet from the coalition: Greetings from Smart Growth America. The report is available online as well as from the coalition's office: Smart Growth America ...

About Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America. www.smartgrowthamerica.org. Smart Growth America (SGA) is a national coalition that is working to achieve a vision of ...

Smart Growth America :
SGA Coalition Members include organizations that believe that unplanned ... We believe that smart growth enables communities to grow in fair ways that ...

Smart Growth America Guides
Greetings from Smart Growth America. Smart Growth America is a new advocacy coalition of over 60 ... Americans' attitudes toward sprawl and smart growth issues. ...

Coalition for Smart Growth
The Coalition for Smart Growth is a unique and diverse group of community ... Partnership for a Walkable America, an informal coalition of health, safety and ...

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