Ever wish you could see your words on this blog? Smart Growth America is seeking an excellent candidate to serve as a Communications Associate. In addition to other responsibilities, the Associate will work with our Communications Director and other members of the communications team to produce materials for print and web — including organizational brochures [...]
Smart Growth America (SGA) is seeking an excellent candidate to serve as a Federal Policy Fellow. The Fellow will work with Smart Growth America’s federal policy team and coalition partners to engage and educate Congress and the Administration on the benefits of smart growth principles. Applications are due by Monday, August 17th.
Responsibilities will include:
Research [...]
In addition to keeping up with Smart Growth America right here on the blog, you can now get news, action alerts, and other announcements — all in 160 characters or less. If you already have a twitter account, follow us @smartgrowthUSA.
For a few years now, EPA and the Smart Growth Network have been sponsoring a regular series of terrific lectures on smart growth and related issues here in Washington, D.C. at the National Building Museum. They’ve had well-known authors, innovators and special guests from all over the country come to talk about different aspects of [...]
Update, Monday 6/8: All free copies have been given away. You can purchase the DVD at the NCI website.
We’re giving away this DVD to the first 500 people that register. Click here to get your free copy.
“Just off Florida’s west coast, south of the Caloosahatchee River, there’s a tale of two cities. Downtown Fort Myers [...]
Today in Louisville, Kentucky, hundreds are taking part in the opening day of the second Reclaiming Vacant Properties Conference. The conference is a ray of hope in the midst of our housing and economic crises — and an incubator for the ideas and solutions that can bring prosperity back to the cities, communities and neighborhoods [...]
The National Complete Streets Coalition is seeking a Federal Policy Fellow to work with a diverse coalition of prominent national organizations working for the adoption of complete streets policies across the country. Applications are due by May 26th.
We are looking for a go-getter that will help us advance our federal policy efforts by moving [...]
Smart Growth America’s Restoring Prosperity campaign, which provides help for revitalizing our aging industrial cities, recently released four more policy packages for use by state advocates. These packages are the part of a series of six policy recommendations for how state and city governments can transform struggling cities into places where anyone would want to [...]
Smart Growth America is looking for someone to serve as our State Campaign Manager.
We are seeking a smart and motivated individual to grow a national campaign into an excellent field operation. The Campaign Manager will direct the day to day expansion of, and tasks to build, a diverse coalition of prominent national, state, and local [...]
It’s right around the corner, but it’s still not too late to register and attend the biggest smart growth conference of the year. The 8th annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference will be held January 22-24 in Albuquerque, NM, and the last date to register without incurring a late fee is January 9th. The [...]
The picture is the same everywhere you look. You’ve been reading it here, in your newspaper, or watching it on the television nearly nonstop for the last few weeks:
Gas is expensive, driving is down, transit systems are packed.
Here in D.C., people are abandoning their cars and taking Metro in record numbers to save money [...]
As we mentioned earlier, SGA communications director David Goldberg testified earlier this morning before the House Select Committee on Global Warming and Energy Independence. If you are so inclined, you can download the testimony of all the presenters on the committee’s home for this hearing.
David’s testimony is available to download here (pdf). Some highlights:
Smart Growth [...]
It’s about to start, but we wanted to let you know that SGA communications director David Goldberg is testifying with several others in front of the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this morning (6/18). The panel of experts will be talking about how better planning, more transit, and increased walkability will [...]
Smart Growth America is looking for an IT professional to manage its current web assets and the rollout of new CRM and CMS systems.
Do you have experience designing and building and managing websites, managing small local networks? Would you be willing to do tech support grunt work for our small office while also managing the [...]
Walking in the ditch to Pleasant View Elementary School in Franklin, Wisconsin on an incomplete street, left, and a complete street that is safe and accessible for all users, right.
updated 5/3/08: Photo source of left photo added at bottom.
If you’ve been feeling pinched at the pump lately and tried cutting down on gas by walking [...]
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 earlier this week, markets with short commutes or in close proximity to transit and the core of [...]
Gov. Parris Glendening, left, and Gov. Christine Todd Whitman with their award from Partners for Livable Communities.
The Partners for Livable Communities recognized former Governors Christine Todd Whitman and Parris Glendening a few weeks ago for their work in creating the Governors’ Institute on Community Design. The PLC presented them with a Bridge Builders award [...]
Pass this on to your friends, colleagues and others to let them know about the release of this exciting new book! Forward this announcement with the link below to your friends and colleagues, or add it to Digg, Reddit, Google Bookmarks, and other social sites.
Visit our Growing Cooler page for more information. There, you can [...]
I’m just a Bill on Capitol Hill…
I just wanted to announce a new action page on our website that covers all of our current work on federal policy. It’s a great place to go to learn more about the legislation moving on the Hill right now — and what you can do about it. We’re [...]
New Partners for Smart Growth was a rousing success. So what’s next in 2008?
The New Partners for Smart Growth Conference — the annual gathering of local officials, community activists, policy wonks, advocates, and regular people who simply care about how their communities grow — is always stimulating, always a great opportunity to exchange business cards [...]
San Fran capitalized on damage from the Loma Prieta Earthquake to remove the Embarcadero Freeway. Before and after at Market Street
This is part one of a series. Click here for part two on Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Take a peek at the road atlas or Google Maps for any major American city and there’s [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
As we usher out 2007 and look to 2008, here are a few recent victories from the policy front — some of which were finalized in just the last few weeks.
EPA Smart Growth funding restored
There won’t be coal in the EPA Smart Growth office’s stocking this year. Though the program had been threatened with a [...]
Smart Growth America is looking to fill several internships and one full-time paid fellowship. (See the links at left)
The National Complete Streets Coalition is seeking a Complete Streets Fellow. This is a tremendous opportunity for a recent graduate to take on significant responsibility while learning about transportation reform issues and working directly with a variety [...]
The Energy and Climate page explores the connection between energy independence, climate change, and how it all relates to smart growth.
You can download the new fact sheet on “The Link to Energy Security and Climate Change” on that page as well.
Want to learn more about energy, climate change, and sustainability? We’ve got a couple of [...]
