NPSG12-301

Climate and Energy Planning: Community Partnerships that Work

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-146

Infill Development Strategies for Small Cities — Lessons from Billings, MT

Speakers: Roger Millar, PE, AICP, Director, Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute; Tom Hanel, Mayor, City of Billings, MT; Dena Belzer, President, Strategic Economics; Elaine Clegg, Councilmember, City of Boise, ID; Special Projects Manager, Idaho Smart Growth

In April 2011, Smart Growth America partnered with the City of Billings, Montana on a two-day workshop to talk about ways that this relatively small (but regionally significant and growing) city could pursue strategies to foster more and better infill development and curb sprawl. Based on their experience leading this workshop, our panelists will provide an overview of some of the challenges smaller, growing Western cities like Billings face in adopting good infill strategies.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-123

Smart Growth, Environmental Justice and Equitable Development: Finding the Connections

Speakers: Charles Lee, Deputy Associate Administrator for Environmental Justice, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, U.S. EPA; Tomasita Duran, Executive Director, Ohkay Owingeh Housing Authority, NY; Mary Nelson, Founding President, Bethel New Life; Daniel Nguyen, Workforce Development Coordinator and Environmental Justice Coordinator, Mary Queen of Vietnam Community Development Corporation; Adam Ortíz, Former Mayor, Town of Edmonston, MD

This session provides an overview of the connections between smart growth and environmental justice and illustrates how four communities are integrating smart growth and environmental justice approaches to achieve equitable development. This panel presents content from a new EPA publication identifying smart growth approaches that can be used to build healthy, sustainable, and just communities.

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

NPSG12-147

Participación de Residentes en el Proceso de Planeación

Speakers: Paul Zykofsky, AICP, Assoc. AIA, Director Asociado, Local Government Commission; Juan Antonio Ramírez, Coordinador, WalkSanDiego; Laura Silvan, Presidenta del Consejo Directivo, Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental, A.C.

La participación activa de los residentes en la planeación urbana local resulta en múltiples beneficios tanto para ellos como para el municipio en general. Primeramente, el involucrar a los residentes en la planeación local resulta en mejores planes; planes basados en el conocimiento de los residentes de lo que funciona y lo que no funciona en cada colonia. Puede ayudar a evitar los conflictos en torno al desarrollo urbano y permite a los residentes entender los impactos positivos y negativos de las distintas opciones.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-329

Building Sustainable Rural Communities with Regional Transportation Systems

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-170

Plenary: Smart Growth for Economic Recovery

Speakers: Jared Blumenfeld, Regional Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 9; Mary D. Nichols, Chairperson, California Air Resources Board; Mick Cornett, Mayor, City of Oklahoma City, OK

This plenary articulates the important role that the federal government is playing to support sustainable communities across the country — communities that will become more economically resilient in the future. It will also feature how leaders at the state and local levels have implemented smart growth approaches as part of a solution to recover from the economic crisis, move towards fiscal health, and become more economically resilient and vibrant along the way.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-121

Groundbreaking New Statewide Energy Retrofit Program: Resources, Models and Lessons Learned

Speakers: Liz Yager, Energy and Sustainability Manager, Sonoma County, CA; Joseph Oldham, Sustainability Manager, City of Fresno, CA; Howard Choy, General Manager, Los Angeles County Office of Sustainability; Kate Meis, Associate Director, Local Government Commission

California has led the nation in reducing energy use and greenhouse gas emissions, now an innovative new program continues that tradition—and promises to revitalize local economies across the state. Energy Upgrade California® is advancing energy efficiency and resource conservation through upgrades of thousands of existing buildings throughout the state serving as a model for the rest of the nation. Energy Upgrade California® is an unprecedented alliance among local governments, non-profits, investor and publicly owned utilities leveraging more than $1.2 billion in investments.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-162

Essential Components of the 21st Century Community: Housing for the "Missing Middle"

Speakers: Lina Velasco, Senior Planner, City of Richmond, CA; Lisa Wise, Principal, Lisa Wise Consulting, Inc. Moderator: Stefan Pellegrini, Principal, Opticos Design, Inc.

This session examines and debates the potential for medium-density housing as an essential future component of our livable communities. Several indicators have increased recent interest in higher-density housing, including changing demographics, decreasing housing affordability, and increasing efforts to conserve energy through more compact development patterns. At the same time, higher-density housing has been challenged by high development and entitlement costs, limited market share, and incessant NIMBYism. Well-designed, medium-density housing, however, suggests that there is a high potential for cost effective, appropriately-scaled development patterns that will allow today's low density communities to evolve and transition in response to future challenges.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

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Subtotal

$130.00