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Are the terms of the discussion beginning to shift?
More compact development could cut the US transportation sector’s greenhouse-gas emissions by 7 to 10 percent, Ewing and his co-authors write in their new book, “Growing Cooler.” The story chronicles efforts by leaders at the state ...

Complete Streets bills now in House and Senate
... transportation projects – 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. ...

Nancy Pelosi and RPA on rebuilding America’s infrastructure
Now we must address total ‘vehicle miles traveled’ which are growing at 2.5 times the rate of population growth. Our infrastructure choices will help determine whether people can choose alternatives to driving their cars. ...

Gov. Parris Glendening at the EcoCity World Summit
Investing in places with transportation options –whether walkable neighborhoods or more transit — will be one of the best solutions for ensuring the security and success of our cities, while also stemming the tide of climate change. ...

Moving Communities Forward: AIA Study on the Design of Transportation
"Moving Communities Forward," a project by the American Institute of Architects and the Center for Transportation Studies, measures the benefits that well-designed transportation projects bring to communities.

CEOs for Cities report: “Driven to the brink”
If you look back over the last two weeks at what we’ve been pointing to in the news and circulating on the blog, there was a clear trend emerging: Rising gas prices and escalating transportation costs have fundamentally altered the ...

Gas tax “scam” petition
Eliminating the federal gas tax all summer would only save American consumers about 30 dollars, send more money overseas, reduce our ability to invest in infrastructure, and encourage even more driving and pollution contributing to ...

10 ways to combat asthma (in honor of Asthma Awareness Month and ...
Invest in more compact development (as opposed to urban sprawl) and improve alternatives to driving, with decent public transportation and walkable or bikeable neighborhoods ("complete streets"). The Smart Growth America website notes ...

Can toll roads keep America moving?
It was spurred along by an interesting combination of Democrats (and Republicans) removing earmarks from the federal budget and a conservative policymaker at the Department of Transportation looking for a way to test DOT plans to reduce ...

Robbing Peter to pay Paul
The American Public Transportation Association said: “Federal public transportation investment and highway investment are both insufficient. While it is important to fix the federal highway account in 2009, robbing Peter to pay Paul is ...

Can Sprawl be Green?
In my post of May 6th, “Traditional Neighborhood Development and LEED Go Hand in Hand,” I made the point that smart growth and new urbanism are helping give a ‘boost’ to green building practices. While conducting research for that ...

Climate Change: The Moral Imperative for Smart Growth
In the aggregate, a national smart growth policy could cut transportation CO2 emissions by 7 to 10%. Since transportation is only responsible for 33% of total US CO2 emissions the role of Smart Growth is modest, but significant factor. ...

The Three-Legged Stool To Reduce Transportation Emissions
According to the Urban Land Institute and Smart Growth America, transportation-based carbon emissions are a three-legged stool: vehicle fuel efficiency, the carbon content of the fuel itself, and the number of miles driven. ...

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 ...

Gas tax “scam” petition
(Via Smart Growth Around America.) Gas tax “scam” petition:. If you, like a majority of Americans, think that any proposal to suspend the gas tax is a bad idea — bad for the environment, bad for our infrastructure, ...

Eliminating the gas tax?
Further, his proposal will hamstring the federal government’s ability to invest in the energy-efficient, climate-friendly transportation alternatives we need to reduce transportation emissions. If McCain were serious about addressing ...

National Commission Report Shows Federal Transportation Program is ...
Joint statement by the Smart Growth America, Reconnecting America and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership to the report of the National Surface Transportation Policy and Revenue Study Commission. For Immediate Release: Tuesday ...

Making it Happen: Sustainable Smart Growth
I must admit that I was surprised that BC is the only province of Canada to have a SmartGrowth chapter. Perhaps that reflects our view that we are not American so we cannot join an organisation called “Smart Growth America”. ...

But can “we” solve it without addressing where we live?
BeyondDC, while like us hopeful for the success of the campaign, also expressed their disappointment in the lack of mentions for smarter growth, walkable neighborhoods, public transit, or related options in an open letter to Al Gore: ...

this week’s RDN calendar
Smart Growth in Richmond. Mon May 5 6:30 pm @ GlobeHopper Back Porch Conversations at GlobeHopper - Open issue-based dialogue. This week: Suburbia has become part of the American Dream promising space, affordability, and family life. ...

Federal Policies for Climate-Friendly Development and Transportation
Reid Ewing, Professor, University of Maryland, National Center for Smart Growth; Steve Winkelman, Transportation Program Director, Center for Clean Air Policy; Geoff Anderson, President, Smart Growth America; John Horsley, ...

“Marketplace” on the economy deterring sprawl
American Public Radio’s Marketplace this morning featured a very brief snippet on Growing Cooler and how the economic downturn and rising energy costs have altered the dynamics of the housing market. As the similar story on NPR showed ...

Governors honored for their work in creating Institute
... six states for sitting Governors and their cabinets, bringing in a knowledgeable team of experts and former Governors to provide invaluable advice on the growth, development and transportation issues selected by the administration. ...

Cooling the planet with development and transportation?
David Goldberg, Communications Director, Smart Growth America • Peter Kasabach, Executive Director, New Jersey Future • Jack Lettiere, President, Jack Lettiere Consulting, LLC; former Commissioner NJDOT Wednesday, April 30, 2008.

Geoff Anderson Takes Helm at Smart Growth America
With the exception of the transportation funding bills of the 1990s, the Smart Growth movement has been less successful in changing the old spending priorities for highways, housing, natural resource protection, and urban investment at ...

Measuring housing affordability: A test case
Last week, we mentioned the release of a new tool from the Center for Neighborhood Technology that measures the true cost of housing affordability, by also considering the transportation costs of each area. (Note: the Washington Post ...

Drinking the Growing Cooler-Aid
It affirms that 'being there' is the best transportation solution. The book, published by ULI was developed in cooperation with Smart Growth America, the Center for Clean Air Policy, and the National Center for Smart Growth Research and ...

Smart Growth Veteran Geoffrey Anderson Selected to Serve as ...
He has helped me by providing smart growth and sustainability information in conjunction with my work on the Nisqually River Council..........I say congratulations to him and to Smart Growth America!!!!!!!!!! With people like Geoff ...

Growing Cooler or the need for US Federal Policies, Beyomd The ...
Reid Ewing, Professor, University of Maryland, National Center for Smart Growth Steve Winkelman, Transportation Program Director, Center for Clean Air Policy Geoff Anderson, President, Smart Growth America ...

Monday nights at GlobeHopper
Monday, May 5 Smart Growth in Richmond. Suburbia has become part of the American Dream promising space, affordability, and family life. Over the past fifty years suburban life has exploded putting increasing demands on transportation ...

GPS Navigation everywhere, except here
Because the US transportation secretary clearly has too much time on his hands these days - this computerized "smart car" guidance system idea he's flogging is obviously the product of an idle mind. A $4000 computer in your car to tell ...

Transportation Headlines for Wednesday April 16, 2008
Smart Growth America Federalism Meets Transportation Authorization Reform http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/blog/better_government/federalism-meets-transportation-authorization-reform Pioneer Institute Here’sa thought: Build Expo Phase II ...

Study on importance of land use and public transit
One study, coordinated by Smart Growth America and published by the Urban Land Institute, found that “Typically, Americans living in compact urban neighborhoods where cars are not the only transportation option drive a third fewer miles ...

Community-Wealth.org E-Newsletter | April 2008
Organized by the Local Government Commission, the conference brought together a wide range of smart growth advocates to develop a common policy agenda, focused largely on revising the anticipated 2009 federal transportation ...

600000 people over age 70 stop driving every year
“Half of American households don’t have access to adequate transportation options other than cars,” Markwood says. “Rural America and suburbs don’t have public transportation available.” We can alleviate some of the pressure down the ...

transportation policy cont.
After reading over both Barack and Hillary’s transportation policy statements, I have to go with Hillary as the more detailed and believable. Barack’s statement uses the right key words like smart growth, livable communities, hubs, ...

Smart Growth Veteran Geoffrey Anderson Selected to Serve as ...
“Geoff Anderson is a natural choice to lead Smart Growth America,” said Michael Woo, chairman of SGA’s board of directors and a former Los Angeles city councilman. “In the course of a very competitive interview process, Geoff earned the ...

"He Had No Transportation Experience"
As mentioned in a post by Steve Davis at Smart Growth America, one of the targets Duval and Gribbin hope to get rid of with congestion pricing is earmarks. But as he also mentions, earmarks are a small part of the total expenditures ...

More freeways, more sprawl, with $4 gas? You’ve got to be kidding?
It is sprawl development at its worst, designed to encourage a plethora of strip malls and cookie cutter subdivisions in the middle of some of the best farmland in America. This is not smart growth. This is mega-developer-driven ...

SOLAR 2008: DAY 3 – GRIDLOCK?
That would easily meet solar’s share of the urgently needed new, non-emissions spewing US power but, because much of solar’s growth will be “distributed” and require significantly less transmission on central infrastructure lines, ...

Organizations
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 ...

Can We Solve It Like This? Why the We Campaign Needs Change.
To which Steve Davis over at Smart Growth America added:. With one-third of our emissions generated by transportation, where we choose to live has quite possibly the largest ramifications on our own personal emissions. ...

CEOs for Cities: Americans agree: Invest in public transportation
... of older areas rather than greenfield building. The article notes that Public Opinion Strategies describes itself as a Republican polling firm. The survey was conducted for Smart Growth America and the National Association of Realtors.

How location affects home affordability, illustrated
More on this subject may be found in an excellent blog post by Steve Davis of Smart Growth America, here. For additional research on Nashville, conducted by NRDC to evaluate the environmental performance of different locations in the ...

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. ...

How to curb the driving craze
While the book is scheduled to be released in two weeks, early copies will be available at the Transportation Choices Forum this Friday. The forum's free but requires registration. FORUM DETAILS; FRIDAY'S STORY. Also, Smart Growth ...

NATIONAL: EPA Smart Growth Veteran Geoffrey Anderson to Lead at ...
"With states tackling climate change, concern over energy independence and gas prices rising and the national transportation law coming up for debate, this is a time of great opportunity for those of us who care about creating and ...

Sustainability Comes To The Suburbs in Dos Lagos, Part of New ...
The Riverside-San Bernardino metro was ranked in 2002 by the non-profit organization Smart Growth America as the most sprawled region out of the 100 largest metro areas in the United States, in its peer-reviewed study "Measuring Sprawl ...

Truthi-Samuelson Strikes Again
Smart growth? These are worse “on environmental grounds”? Perhaps oil prices will drop when some long-delayed projects begin production or if demand slackens. But the basic problem will remain. Though dependent on foreign oil, ...

Energy, smart growth, climate change and the 2008 candidates (Part 2)
This is part two of our rundown of candidates’ energy, climate, and transportation positions. Today, we’ll cover the Democrats. (Click here for the Republicans). As a reminder, Smart Growth America is endorsing neither a candidate nor a ...

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Atlas Van Lines To Expand Accel Service Featuring The SmartVault Technology
AMEX: MVE Smart Move, Inc., a Denver, CO based logistics company, recently announced the expansion of the services the company provides to Atlas Van Lines, one of the nation's largest and most successful relocation van line groups.

Increasing Driving Poses Environmental Challenge for America
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Despite current legislative efforts, thwarting serious environmental damage and possible climate change from greenhouse gas emissions will become impossible if automobile use conti...

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New Haven City Card and Parcxmart Technologies Approach One Million in Total Transaction Volume
HAMPTON FALLS, N.H., May 9, 2008 -- New Haven's multi-application Parcxmart Card, designed as a city card to streamline operating expenses and increase revenues for on-street parking operations and merchants citywide, announces record usage in New Haven.

Visit Chicago's Historic Pullman district
CHICAGO -- It was a remarkable, if short-lived, 19th century blue-collar utopia. ...

Innovation Could Help Floral Industry
Despite a relatively high purchasing power, U.S. flower consumption lags behind Western Europe, which is the largest flower consumer. Cultural differences account for some of this disparity, but U.S. consumers have traditionally been dissatisfied with flower quality and vase life in particular.

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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Check out classes, fundraisers, groups, volunteer opportunities and more.

JCPenney Reports April Sales
J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) comparable store sales decreased 1.7 percent for the four weeks ended May 3, 2008, compared to guidance for sales to decrease mid- to high-single digits and compared to a 3.4 percent decrease last year. Sales benefitted in the month from more favorable weather trends in some regions of the country that boosted seasonal apparel sales, and customer response to ...

Statement by George Whitesides - Senate Hearing on Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration
Statement by George Whitesides - Senate Hearing on Reauthorizing the Vision for Space Exploration

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
Transportation is the backbone of smart growth. ... the transportation network is the skeleton which supports smart growth or sprawling development. ...

Smart Growth Resource Library: Smart Growth Around America
... Smart Growth America'' that showcases recent and developing smart growth issues ... Legislature, City Must Learn to Work Together to Solve Transportation Problems ...

ReconnectingAmerica.org // Featured Story
... the link between transportation and community development, ... Reconnecting America's. Transportation Networks. Board of Directors. Staff. Sponsors. Books ...

Smart Growth
... United States to form Smart Growth America, a nationwide coalition that ... and transportation policies directly influence smart growth, energy conservation, ...

Smart Growth Online
Encourages development that is environmentally, fiscally, and economically smart and helps create national, regional, and local coalitions to support smart growth.

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.

About Smart Growth America
Smart Growth America (SGA) is a national coalition that is working ... communities, increases housing and transportation choices, and offers all Americans fair ...

Transportation Reform and Smart Growth:
... Communities, Smart Growth America, and The Surface Transportation Policy Project ... Transportation Equity Network, Smart. Growth America, the Community ...

The Funders' Network - Resources
Translation Paper #6: Transportation Reform and Smart Growth. A Nation at ... Chen, Executive Director of Smart Growth America, and Nancy Jakowitsch, Policy ...

Re: Obama is king of the biofuel criminals!

...the dominance of oil in our transportation sector just as we diversified away...bulbs can use much less energy; smart grid technology can help homeowners and... improve fuel efficiency in the transportation sector. We need to dispel the...the development of infrastructure and market growth necessary for these products to ... compete for sales than subsidies. America's electricity production is for ...

Re: Obama is king of the biofuel criminals!

...the dominance of oil in our transportation sector just as we diversified away...bulbs can use much less energy; smart grid technology can help homeowners and... improve fuel efficiency in the transportation sector. We need to dispel the...the development of infrastructure and market growth necessary for these products to ... compete for sales than subsidies. America's electricity production is for ...

Where The Real Action Is.

..., cost of labor, packaging, marketing, transportation, and energy to produce the food..., just in good facts and smart conversations about energy and policy. ...dominate feedstock for biofuels in North America. Less than 1%% of wheat goes...have made it more expensive to transport food products, though the World Bank...to feed livestock, since rapid economic growth in places like China means more...

Re: Part Twenty Five of The Alternative Red Dwarf/Website Information etcetera.

...stone, and not to mention, the sudden growth of breasts! Unfortunately however, Rimmer wasn't ...hair, who was attired, in a very smart, black and white suit. And he had ..., who was attired, in a very smart, black and white suit, in his dreams...The Explanation For The Time Drive in Transporting The Red Dwarf Posse Back To Earth... Pentagon, in the United States of America. That's All For Now, Folks!...

Remarks By John McCain On The Economy At Brooklyn Small Business Roundtable

...the engine of economic growth in America. Small business creates the...education, clothing, health care and transportation ever devised. A strong, growing...simply, the increased cost of transporting these products to your store...also encourage groups like Neighborworks America and others provide mortgage assistance...field, small government and a smart, enforceable regulatory and legal framework...

New Limits to Growth Revive Malthusian Fears

... high-protein diets, gasoline-fueled transport and electric gadgets that developed ... cannot sustain that level of growth, he contends, without new technologies....-warming problem is overblown. "But smartness will outweigh the extra resource...East, southern Europe and Latin America, the report said. Feeding the...had outstripped supply. Over time, America became more energy efficient, overseas...

Re: space travel or war

... environment of peace prosperity and growth for all. . Again, "WE" We ... winnebagos. They seamlessly and easily transport products and people ballistically from ... products and information generated in America. I'm impressed with the ... as if WE weren't smart enough to think out solutions ... explored. Either engineers start designing transportational alternatives to the over-priced ...

Re: Retooling the Vision for Space Exploration

...decline thought they were being smart reigning in those naive explorers...space travel and commercial space transport;  2) revamp the outer space...again unlimited opportunities for economic growth, and unlimited opportunities for declining...fix the problem and get America manufacturing again. Reagan trashed our...to cover all of North America. This expansion would of course...

Re: Retooling the Vision for Space Exploration

... decline thought they were being smart reigning in those naive explorers ... space travel and commercial space transport;  2) revamp the outer space ... again unlimited opportunities for economic growth, and unlimited opportunities for declining...we get from space. , Continued growth in our efficiency at building...policies he is advocating now America will visibly decline within one...

Re: Mitigation of global warming

... the amount of energy needed for transportation, community services, and buildings. At the ... practices include compact community development, multiple transportation choices, mixed land uses, and practices ... choices. For more see Smart Growth [edit] Transport The development of new...many developing countries (namely in South America). [edit] Renewable Energy in the ...

Globe trotter: An article from: Smart Business Columbus

Linking vision with capital: Challenges and opportunities in financing smart growth (Institute report)