The most-read story on Indianapolis’ Channel 6 website this morning who took the task of “completing the streets” into his own hands. Muncie resident and Ball State U. grad student Whitney Stump got tired of seeing cars constantly rolling through the stop signs in front of his house at a four-way intersection.
So he called [...]
The APA Advocate tells us today that the House passed a reauthorization of the HOPE VI housing program, with some important additions and improvements. The passage will extend and increase the funding for the program, as well as making some progressive changes.
(UPDATE: CNU posted a few words about the passage as well)
The program, which has [...]
To follow up our post from last week on the local, state, and regional coalition members, I put together a list of our national coalition members that have syndicated feeds you can subscribe to.
Here is a quick list of those national folks with regular blogs — and a few that at least have RSS feeds [...]
Alex Steffen over at Worldchanging.org picked up on Growing Cooler in a fantastic recent essay on climate change called “My Other Car is a Bright Green City.”
Sprawled-out land uses generate enormous amounts of automotive greenhouse gases. A recent major study, Growing Cooler, makes the point clearly: if 60 percent of new developments were even modestly [...]
After nearly two years of study and debate, the Congressionally mandated, bipartisan commission charged with predicting our nation’s transportation future emerged last week with it’s collective hair on fire, screaming that our driver-less SUV of a federal policy is headed for a cliff. To which the news media responded with a collective yawn, except for [...]
When speaking about the Maryland smart growth program that he helped create more than 10 years ago, former Governor Parris Glendening is fond of telling the story of how the state’s decision to locate a University of Maryland campus in downtown Hagerstown sparked revitalization of the traditional town center. Just a couple of weeks ago, [...]
Planetizen phoned up our incoming President and CEO for a phone conversation this week about the future of Smart Growth America and our movement at large. They recorded the chat for one of their regular podcasts, so if you’d like to hear a little bit from Geoff, run over to Planetizen and have a listen [...]
This is a news release from the Smart Growth Leadership Institute about the final release of their new toolkit:
Smart Growth Leadership Institute releases toolkit to help communities implement smart growth.
The Smart Growth Leadership Institute (SGLI) has released a suite of tools to help communities identify and overcome barriers to smarter growth and more sustainable development. [...]
We’ve been thinking about how to have a blogroll here on SGAA without having one of those infinitely long lists in the sidebar that no one seems to pay attention to anyway, and it seemed that a good place to start would be with our coalition partners.
Over the next few days, I’ll be starting to [...]
When a timber company proposed a new development on a lake in central Maine that would clear 14,000 acres of forest to build roughly 2,300 homes, forward-looking leaders in Maine questioned the wisdom of a mega-project on pristine wilderness so far from existing [...]
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, Jan. 15, 2008
Contact: David Goldberg, 202-412-7930
WASHINGTON, DC – The National Surface Transportation Study Commission has provided an invaluable service in marshalling evidence [...]
As you could see from our last two posts chronicling the candidates’ positions on energy and climate, it varies from being a core issue among 11 or 12 others, all the way down to not being mentioned much at all. And as interested as some candidates may be in the issues, they still haven’t reached [...]
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 party. This is solely for informational purposes. Have we missed something or has a candidate changed their stance? Let [...]
After watching some of the debates over the last few weeks, and partially inspired by a similar post from Rob Goodspeed on the Planetizen Interchange, I pieced together this very abridged summary of where some of the current candidates stand on some of the environmental, transportation, energy and urban issues that our coalition cares about.
Mind [...]
Those were the words of Scenic America’s Kevin Fry in a slideshow from the New York Times that accompanied a Dan Barry column just before Christmas.
(New York Times photograph by Angel Franco. Click image to view the slideshow)
“Once you’ve lost your connection to your place you have no reason to care about it anymore. It’s [...]
First of all, happy new year and welcome back! All of us here at SGA are excited about the prospects for 2008, including the transition to a new President and CEO, which you can read here in case you missed it. We’ll be posting Geoff Anderson’s full bio shortly, with perhaps a short Q&A on [...]
After an extensive nationwide search, the SGA Board of Directors is pleased to announce the appointment of Geoffrey Anderson as President and CEO of Smart Growth America.
Anderson, who has headed the smart growth program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency since 2000, will succeed founding executive director and CEO Don Chen, who is leaving at [...]
