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''Building Together'' Highlights
The Enterprise Foundation's 2004 Annual Network Conference, ''Building Together: Partnerships for Successful Community Development,'' examined how the community development industry can accomplish more for low-income families by strengthening relationships with current partners and reaching out to new ones.
Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism
The Charter of the New Urbanism is the guiding document of the new urbanist movement. Although it offers an encompassing vision of sustainable urbanism from the scale of the region to the block and building, three leading CNU members, including two who had a central role in drafting the original Charter, undertook an effort to clarify and detail the relationship between New Urbanism and sustainability. The resulting document, The Canons of Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, is designed to serve as a set of operating principles for human settlement that reestablish the relationship between the art of building, the making of community, and the conservation of our natural world.
Energy Star Challenge
The ENERGY STAR Challenge is a national call-to-action to improve the energy efficiency of America's commercial and industrial buildings by 10 percent or more. Whether you're associated with a small school or a large corporation, a local government or a national association, a community hospital or a hotel group, a manufacturing plant or an architecture firm -- you can be part of the ENERGY STAR Challenge and help improve the energy efficiency of America's commercial and industrial buildings by 10 percent or more.
Energy Star Target Finder
Target Finder from the U.S. EPA's Energy Star program can help you set realistic energy performance goals and receive an energy rating for design projects. By setting and achieving superior energy performance goals, architects can help their clients prevent greenhouse gas emissions associated with burning fossil fuels.
EPA-NOAA Coastal Community Development Partnership
The EPA and the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have agreed to work together to help coastal communities grow in ways that benefit the economy, public health, and the environment.
First Green Communities Project
Green Communities is a five-year $550 million initiative developed through a partnership between The Enterprise Foundation/ Enterprise Social Investment Corporation (ESIC) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), along with leading corporate, financial, professional and philanthropic organizations to ensure smarter, healthier homes for Americans with limited incomes.
Institute for Comprehensive Community Development
The Institute for Comprehensive Community Development was established to advance the field of comprehensive community development and the positive impact it has in urban and rural communities across the country. This is done by:
- Building the capacity of community development practitioners;
- Providing on-site support and technical assistance to comprehensive community development initiatives in cities across the U.S.;
- Applying lessons learned through research and performance evaluation to continually improve on-going comprehensive community development initiatives and to develop new initiatives;
- Supporting the development of public policies which integrate government programs in order to effectively facilitate and support comprehensive community development;
- Communicating broadly the best there is in practice and theory in the field of community development.
The Institute is a place where the community development field can take what it learns from practice and use it as a base from which to provide training, to promote research in comprehensive community development, and to investigate the public policies that would best advance this work locally and nationally. The Institute is the locus where practice and theory meet, and where experimentation and innovation – grounded in real-world experience – flourish.
The Institute for Comprehensive Community Development is a venture of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC).
LISC Green Development Center
Local Initiatives Support Corporation's Green Development Center supports green design, construction, and management principles in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. The Center is the latest LISC program to support comprehensive community revitalization.
LISC's New Communities Program -- Chicago
The New Communities Program (NCP) is a long-term initiative of the Local Initiatives Support Corporation/Chicago to support comprehensive community development in 16 Chicago neighborhoods. The five-year effort seeks to rejuvenate challenged communities, bolster those in danger of losing ground and preserve the diversity of areas in the path of gentrification.
Low Carbon Urbanism Campaign
Low Carbon Neighborhoods, High-Quality Living is an initiative from the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) that emphasizes how neighborhoods are one of the best remedies for combating climate change.
NRDC's Smarter Cities Rankings
Smarter Cities, a project of the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), is a multimedia web initiative that provides a forum for exploring the progress that American cities are making in environmental stewardship and sustainable growth.
Planning for Elder-Friendly Communities
Sustainable Planning for Aging in Place from ICMA is a resource list designed to help local governments get up to speed quickly on the issues and tools that will ensure that older adults enjoy a high quality of life today and into the future. It includes information about national organizations, newsletters and listservs, reports and fact sheets, funding, and conferences.
Revitalizing Older Cities
The Northeast-Midwest Institute has embraced a new Revitalizing Older Cities Initiative. This initiative pulls from many of the long-standing policy issues associated with the Institute, including brownfields, urban food issues, energy, manufacturing, and environmental restoration policy.
Smart Growth Leadership Summit RFIP
The U.S. EPA is seeking proposals from eligible organizations to develop and convene a prominent annual summit for key public officials and civic or private sector leaders who are noted pioneers in implementing the principles of smart growth.
Smart Growth Maryland Blog
SMART GROWTH MARYLAND is a blog written by members of the Maryland Department of Planning (MDP). The blog serves as a great forum for the exchange of ideas and news about Smart Growth, sustainable planning, livable communities, historic and land preservation and the like.
About the bloggers
Andrew Ratner is director of communications and education for the Maryland Department of Planning. During a 24-year career at the Baltimore Sun, he wrote about Smart Growth and blogging, so marrying the two seemed to make a lot of sense.
John Coleman is Public Information Officer for the Maryland Department of Planning. He has been with MDP for more than a decade.
Steve Allan has been with the Maryland Department of Planning for more than 10 years in various capacities, including as policy planner for infill and redevelopment, Smart Growth education and urban design. He now serves as education coordinator for the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP), the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System and planning commissioners.
Smart Growth Network Members Forum
The Smart Growth Network offers an online forum for members to discuss issues of interest and share ideas on smart growth efforts.
US EPA's ''Encouraging Smart Growth''
Are you looking for policy options that can make
smart growth happen in your community? The
Smart Growth Policy Database
may be able to help. This catalog contains
information on more than 225 policies and actions that municipalities,
counties, regions and states are undertaking to achieve smart growth
outcomes.
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