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Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks
The Sustainable Sites Initiative Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks -- Draft 2008 focuses on measuring how a site can protect, restore and regenerate ecosystem services -- benefits provided by natural ecosystems such as cleaning air and water, climate regulation and human health benefits. This report contains over 50 draft prerequisites and credits that cover all stages of the site development process from site selection to landscape maintenance.
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Connected and Sustainable Mobility
The Connected Bus is a landmark innovation and a key element of the Connected Urban Development program's Urban Transportation Technology framework. Begun in summer 2007, the pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco IBSG -- the global strategic consulting arm of Cisco -- and the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA). They are jointly designing, developing, and delivering The Connected Bus pilot for the City and County of San Francisco.
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Livable Communities Publications and Resources
The Houston-Galveston Area Council includes on its website a section featuring Livable Communities publications and presentations. These documents, generally available online for free as PDFs and Powerpoints, cover several topic areas and include resources from several local events.
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Creating Affordable Housing In New York City
The October 2008 edition of Metropolis magazine includes the feature "The Affordable Housing Complex," an article that examines public policy regarding high-density public housing and a success story from New York City: privately developed mixed-income projects by prominent architects that reach back into the sky.
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2008 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement
At the seventh annual ceremony for the National Award for Smart Growth Achievement, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will honor four communities for their forward-thinking smart growth projects and programs.
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Guiding Growth and Development in Georgia Handbook
Georgia's land use laws, together with innovative planning and fresh approaches to community engagement, provide the tools needed to build strong communities that are sustainable both economically and environmentally. Guiding Growth and Development in Georgia: A Handbook on Planning and Land Use Law and Practices was created by the Livable Communities Coalition for elected officials and interested citizens. This guide is intended to provide an overview of those planning tools and the laws, terms, and concepts essential for using them wisely.
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How Healthy are National Green Building Programs?
In How Healthy are National Green Building Programs?, the National Center for Healthy Housing (NCHH) compared major national green building and indoor air quality guidelines with its own set of recommended healthy housing criteria to determine whether these programs adequately protect residents from housing conditions known to affect health status, such as asthma and respiratory disease, unintentional injuries, allergic reactions, cancer, and other health effects from contaminants and allergens.
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Local Government and Schools: Creating Community-Oriented Schools
Local Government and Schools is an IQ report from the International City/County Management Association (ICMA) that provides local government managers with an understanding of the connections between school facility planning and local government management issues. The report offers strategies for how local governments and schools can bring their respective planning efforts together to take a more community-oriented approach to schools and reach multiple community goals: educational, environmental, economic, social, and fiscal. Eight case studies illustrate how communities across the U.S. have already succeeded in collaborating to create more community-oriented schools.
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Regional Conservation Priorities
The Washington Smart Growth Alliance has published Regional Conservation Priorities 2008: A Call to Action, a juried list of programs and projects in the Washington, D.C. are that offer the most promise or of the highest urgency in promoting sustainability in the National Capital Region.
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Neighborhood Metrics
Neighborhood Metrics on DataPlace, from KnowledgePlex, Inc., is an online resource where users can dynamically create custom metrics (or indices) by aggregating existing dataset indicators. This powerful tool can help reveal interesting and important trends.
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Transit Savings Calculator
The American Public Transportation Association offers an online Transit Savings Calculator that can help you compare the price of using public transportation with the price of paying at the pump and then parking your car in town.
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Public Transportation: Benefits for the 21st Century
Public Transportation: Benefits for the 21st Century is a fact-filled report that provides an overview of the benefits that public transportation brings to individuals, communities and our nation as a whole.
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Land Policy Institute Ask the Expert
Ask the Expert forums at Michigan State University's Land Policy Institute include nine online discussion forums for public dialogue with academic and other experts related toland use, economic devleoment, and sustainability.
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Implementing Smart Growth Streets
The U.S. EPA Office of Development, Community and Environment (widely known as the "Smart Growth" office) is sponsoring a study on "Implementing Smart Growth Streets" that is being conducted by ICF International and Ellen Greenberg. Readers of Smart Growth Online are invited to participate in this work by bringing candidate case studies to the attention of the project team.
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Access to Destinations
The Center for Transportation Studies (CTS) at the University of Minnesota has published a study Access to Destinations: Monitoring Land Use Activity Changes in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region that presents an effort to track and model land use change in the Twin Cities Metropolitan Region.
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2008 UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Speaker Series
Ecofoot, the official website of the Office of Campus Sustainability at Michigan State University, provides a listing for its 2008 UN Decade of Education for Sustainable Development Speaker Series. Participating in the Fall 2008 speaker lineup are Ritu Primlani, Richard Louv, and Tom Princen.
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