SEA09-205

Government & Social Enterprise as Partners

Speakers: David Carter & Jim Fruchterman

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NPSG12-161

Not Your Father's DOT: Progressive Trends in State Transportation Policy

Speakers: Roger Millar, PE, AICP, Director, Smart Growth America's Leadership Institute; Mary Taylor Raulerson, Principal Planner, Kittelson & Associates; Allen Biehler, PE, Allen Biehler Consulting LLC; Lynn Peterson, Sustainable Communities and Transportation Policy Advisor Governor's Office; Paul F. Morris, FASLA, Deputy Secretary for Transit, North Carolina Department of Transportation

State transportation agencies spend billions of dollars every year on transportation infrastructure. How can we make sure that this spending is focused on supporting and enhancing livable communities? Pennsylvania, Oregon, North Carolina and others have been working towards transportation reforms to create and support livable communities. Learn about their good work and efforts to leverage these successes nationwide.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

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NPSG13-133

Infrastructure Finance; Innovative Tools for Challenging Times

Speakers: Matthew Lesh, Transportation Program Specialist, U.S. Department of Transportation; John Williams, Chairman and CEO, Impact Infrastructure, LLC. Moderator: Lee Sobel, Real Estate Development and Finance Analyst, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA.

This session provides an overview of the types of infrastructure needs typically associated with infill and transit-oriented development, the challenges involved in paying for this infrastructure, key infrastructure finance terms and tools, and the process of formulating a successful infrastructure funding and financing strategy. Infrastructure and community facilities often need to be in place before new private development can occur – either because additional infrastructure is required to support new uses or, in a place with a weak real estate market, to make a location more attractive for developers, new residents and employers. Although communities often struggle to pay for such infrastructure, the long-term economic benefits are too great to pass up. Listen and learn about how communities are thinking outside the box when it comes to new infrastructure finance methods.

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ConBio12-316

Working Landscape 2

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SEA09-115

Legislative Policy Approaches and Lessons

Speakers: Gerry Higgins, Jenny Kassan, Tom Moody, & Tom Triplett

Audio CDs: 1

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$12.00

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ELINdvd-08

Elinor Stutz

Elinor's passion is captured in action on this DVD of her presentation at the Circle of Women Conference on 8/8/8 in San Mateo.

Audio CDs: 1

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$25.00

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APSA_NY13-304

Psychoanalysis & Health Care Reform: Impact of the Presidential & Congressional Elections on Psychiatry & Psychoanalysis

Speakers: James C. Pyles

This session is for all members of APsaA and outlines the effect the November 2012 elections will have on health reform and the practice of psychiatry and psychoanalysis. The Affordable Care Act was signed into law in March 2011 and was held constitutional by the Supreme Court on June 28, 2012. Republican members of the House and the Republican candidate for president have pledged to repeal it. APsaA counsel, Jim Pyles has been closely involved in the health reform debate and provides analysis and insight into what the elections mean for health reform.

Audio CDs: 1

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$15.00

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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.

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$15.00

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SEA09-209

DC Central Kitchen—Building a Farm-to-Kitchen Consortium & Cutting Costs

Speakers: Mike Curtin & Robert L.E. Egger & Maureen Roche

Audio CDs: 1

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$12.00

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NPSG12-301

Climate and Energy Planning: Community Partnerships that Work

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

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NPSG13-306

Smart Growth Citizenship: How Grassroots Action is Transforming Communities

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

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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.

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AGPA13-TUE

Institute Opening: “What Are We Hiding and Who Are We Hiding From?”

Speakers: Mary Dluhy, MSW, CGP, FAGPA

Audio CDs: 1

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NPSG13-230

Walk Live 2012 Complete Streets, Cultural Change: Bring it to Your Town

Audio CDs: 1

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NPSG12-151

EPA's Building Blocks: Lessons Learned from a Year of Tool Development & Delivery

Speakers: Kevin Nelson, AICP, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA; Chris Duerksen, Managing Director, Clarion Associates; Sue Schwartz, AICP, Director of Planning and Community Development, City of Greensboro, SC; Frank Williamson, Alderman, City of St. Louis, MO

In 2011, the EPA's Office of Sustainable Communities created the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program to develop smart growth and sustainability tools that could be delivered to communities in a short term and targeted manner. Given the range of issues facing communities to implement smart growth, the toolbox created from this program aims at to achieve: walkable communities, a reduction in vehicle miles travelled, and protection of land and water resources. This session reviews the development of this program, its intended impact and focus on tool delivery and implementation.

Audio CDs: 2

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AGPA11-313

Using a Stage Play to Illustrate Principles of Psychodynamic Group Therapy

Speakers: Molly Donovan; Robert Schulte; Maryetta Andrews-Sachs; Kavita Aula; John Dluhy; Hallie Lovett; Liz Marsh; John Thomas; Soo Park; Rob Williams

Audio CDs: 2

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NPSG13-01E

WORKSHOP Closing Plenary: The Outlook for Equitable Development

Speakers: Gary Cunningham, Matthew Dalbey, Shelley Poticha, Mathy Stanislaus, Nicholas Targ

Leaders from Federal Agencies, nonprofit groups and other organizationsl react to the day's conversations, reflect on next steps for integrating neighborhood revitalization and economic and workforce development and offer previews of how they approach these issues over the coming year.

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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.

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NPSG13-108

Partnerships that Deliver Thriving Communities

Speakers: Ben Bakkenta, AICP, Program Manager, Puget Sound Regional Council; Rebecca Saldana, Community Benefits and Development Program Director, Puget Sound Stage; Nathaniel Smith, Founder, Partnership for Southern Equity; Shelly Griswold, Planner, City of Freeport, IL; Evelyn Curry, Neighborhood Leader, Stephenson County Health Department, IL. Moderator: Sarita Turner, Sustainable Communities Fellow, PolicyLink

Smart, sustainable planning incorporates equity principles from concept to implementation. Increasingly, governments are recognizing the value non-traditional partnerships bring to planning processes. Planning that is informed and guided by the wisdom and experiences of communities, coupled with equity-focused smart growth strategies, is winning sustainability in developments of all types. Hear how metropolitan planning organizations (MPO) and cities are working in partnership with community to bring new vision, energy and approaches to traditional planning processes. In the Puget Sound, the MPO is working in lock-step with the Puget Sound Regional Equity Network to plan equitable transit oriented development; in the Atlanta region, in collaboration with the Partnership for Southern Equity, the MPO has formalized an equity committee within its structure and developed an Equitable Target Areas Index; in Freeport, IL, the city is working hand in hand with resident leadership to redevelop a brownfield in a African-American neighborhood.

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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.

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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.

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NPSG12-329

Building Sustainable Rural Communities with Regional Transportation Systems

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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.

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NPSG12-309

Getting it Done: State Policy Strategies from Advocacy to Implementation

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NPSG12-210

Area-Wide Planning: Innovations at the State, Local, and Federal Level

Speakers: Elizabeth Schilling, Policy Manager, Smart Growth America

The area-wide approach is a unique strategy aimed at revitalizing brownfields-impacted neighborhoods through a community-centered, collaborative planning process. The process focuses not only on planning, but also on creating a framework for implementation that draws on public, private, and community partnerships, and supports a more strategic use of state/federal brownfields funds for neighborhood development.

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NPSG13-107

Building Community While Greening the City: The Parklet Revolution

Speakers: Ariel Ben-Amos, Senior Planner/Analyst, Mayor’s Office of Transportation and Utilities, Philadelphia, PA; Alexis Smith, Planner / Urban Designer, City of San Francisco, CA; John Bela, Principal, Rebar. Moderator: Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission

The elements of a parklet – a parking spot transformed into a tiny public relaxation area – can vary, from a patch of grass-like turf and plants to an outdoor patio with seating. At a time when city budgets are severely constrained, parklets have become a popular way for residents and businesses to green their neighborhoods. Parklets got a start in 2005 in San Francisco, when staff of a design firm fed a parking meter with coins, covered the asphalt with sod, and added a potted tree. Their experiment spread like wildfire. The City responded by making parklets legal and setting up an approval process. Today parklets can be seen in neighborhoods throughout the City. The parklet concept has spread beyond SF, with different versions evolving for different climates. This session features a professional from the San Francisco Parks Department, a staff member from the Mayor’s Office in the City of Philadelphia, and a representative of Rebar, the design firm that initiated the parklet revolution.

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COLSUC07-A3

Ownership and Governance

Speakers: Jonathan Spack, Dmitri Belser, Lorne Buchman, Steven Oliver, Bob Weiss

Audio CDs: 1

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AGPA11-#TUE

Tuesday Opening Session: “Your Institute: A Resilience Boost”

Speakers: Bonnie Buchele, PhD, CGP

Audio CDs: 1

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NPSG12-232

The Walking Audit - A Tool for Organizing Strong Communities and Developing Complete Streets

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NPSG12-103

Public-Private Partnership to Finance and Promote Equitable TOD

Speakers: Brian Prater, Managing Director, Western Region, Low Income Investment Fund; Doug Johnson, Senior Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission; Lindy Hahn, Global Sustainable Finance, Morgan Stanley

Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) is an important component of sustainable development. Without proactive public policy and innovative financing mechanisms, the development of new public transportation infrastructures can have a negative effect upon low-income households, by driving up land and real estate values. One of the primary financing mechanisms for the creation or preservation of affordable housing near transit has been acquisition loan funds for TOD. These pioneering funds allow borrowers to hold land for five or more years, layer capital to lower interest rates from standard acquisition loans, and create an environment in which both borrowers and the lenders take new or non traditional risk in order to ensure that low-income households can benefit from combined access to reliable public transportation and affordable housing. This session highlights such a fund, The Bay Area Transit Oriented Affordable Housing Fund, and focuses on collaboration and the elements (program, policy and innovative financing tools) that need to exist to advance equitable TOD.

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NPSG13-118

Success with Schools: New Tools for Your Community

Speakers: Candi Beaudry, AICP, Director, City of Billings, MT; Sharon Thomas, Mayor Pro Tem, City of Las Cruces, NM; Leslie Meehan, AICP, Director of Healthy Communities, Nashville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization. Moderator: Renee Kuhlman, Director of Special Projects-Government Relations and Policy, National Trust for Historic Preservation

Where to locate schools is a complex and often contentious question. Three communities are working to ensure that the health and sustainability of their community are part of the decision-making process. With help from EPA, Billings, Montana is developing a new cost calculator (with transportation, health, and environmental considerations) and conducting a thorough policy audit. Las Cruces, New Mexico has set up a joint city-county school district working group and will share how they are planning concurrently for the future. In Nashville, Tennessee, a new mixed-use development with a commuter train station is being built and planners have used a health impact assessment to help the community make a fair and equitable decision about the location of a new school facility. Attendees also share their own challenges so panelists can describe how the new tools can be used or modified in different situations.

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NPSG12-152

Putting Parking in its Place for Smart Growth

Speakers: Valerie Knepper, Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission; Richard W. Lee, Ph.D., AICP, Associate, Fehr & Peers; Christine Eary, Associate Regional Planner, SANDAG; Donald C. Shoup, Professor of Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles; Meea Kang, Principal, Domus Development: Executive Director, California Infill Builders Association; Richard W. Willson Ph.D. FAICP, Professor, Department of Urban and Regional Planning, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona; Jeffrey Tumlin, Principal, Nelson/Nygaard; Samir Hajjiri, Sr. Traffic Engineer, City of San Diego, City Planning & Community Investment Dept.; Kathy Garcia, Planning Director, City of Del Mar; Ian Sacs, P.E., Director, Transportation and Parking, City of Hoboken, NJ; Robert Swierk, AICP, Senior Transportation Planner, CMA Planning; Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority; Mott Smith, Principal, Civic Enterprise

Hear from the nation's foremost parking experts, to reconceptualize parking to support smart growth in our communities; explore the roles of different governmental agencies and the private sector in reforming parking policies and practices; and address housing, TOD, and transit. The session delves into: the fundamentals of rethinking parking policies—The High Price of Free Parking and the theory of 85%; new development—how can smart parking policies support the viability of new construction? Government roles—how can cities and MPOs pursue parking policies and practices to effectively support smart growth? Finally, The Cutting Edge—what's happening in the Big Apple and elsewhere "at the frontier"?

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TBA07-213

A Progressive Agenda for States

Speakers: Tim McFeeley, Celinda Lake, Nathan Newman, Joel Rogers, Delegate Adam Ebbin (VA), Rep. Joe McDermott (WA),Rep. Jessica Farrar (TX), Rep. Jim Marzilli (MA), Rep. Roberta Abdul Salaam (GA)

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NPSG13-326

Greening America's Cities: A Capital Idea

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$15.00

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NPSG13-307

Strategic Place-Based Planning for Urban Regeneration: Lesson in Social Sustainability from Mid-American Cities

2 hour session.

Audio CDs: 2

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$30.00

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NPSG12-223

Revitalization, Gentrification, and Equitable Development: Evaluating a Decade of EPA's Programs

Speakers: Mary Nelson, Founding President, Bethel New Life; Deeohn Ferris, JD, President, Sustainable Community Development Group; Ted Howard, Evergreen Coalition; Charlie Bartsch, Senior Advisor to the Assistant Administrator for Economic Development, Office of Brownfields and Land Revitalization, U.S. EPA; Vernice Miller-Travis, Senior Associate, Skeo Solutions

Gentrification is often defined as the transformation of neighborhoods from low value to high value. This change has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents and businesses because of higher rents, mortgages, and property taxes. This interactive session provides an overview of EPA's efforts to promote equitable development, engages the audience, and facilitates a candid discussion about the challenges and proposed solutions at the local level for advancing truly equitable development.

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TBA07-325

The Mainstream Media: Fair and Balanced?

Speakers: Jon Elliott & Cenk Uygur, Richard Wolffe, Dan Froomkin, David Shuster, Craig Crawford, Duncan Black, Marisa Treviño, Keith Boykin

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NPSG13-243

The Infill Cottage Solution: Achieve Affordability, Solve NIMBYism, Energize Community Development

2 hour session.

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NPSG13-104

Small Housing Trends: Recession Survival Tactics & Moving Forward

Speakers: Debra Bassert, Vice President of Land Use Policy, National Association of Home Builders; Donald Powers, Founding Partner, Union Studio; Dena Belzer, President, Strategic Economics; Toby Rittner, President and CEO, Council of Development Finance Agencies; John Williams, Chair and CEO, Impact Infrastructure

Entrepreneurial builders have worked through the recession by capitalizing on trends toward smaller housing. Demographic trends and housing surveys identify a growing interest in buyers and renters for smaller housing units. In new communities or infill projects, big or small markets, these builders have noticed the trends and have responded with new models for attached and detached units at various price points. With changing preferences among Generation Y and boomers, unstable oil prices and volatility in the costs of construction, builders are giving more consideration to what and where they build. The demand for smaller housing transcends economic conditions. Hear what these builders are saying about working through the recession, and what is needed to thrive as the housing market improves and a New Normal is established. The panelists offer insight into finance, zoning, design, construction, demographics and placemaking, as we explore the growing opportunity in small housing.

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SEA09-212

Social Media for Social Enterprise

Speakers: Tirza Hollenhorst

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TBA08-134

Millennials Rising: Young Voters Revitalizing Democracy

Speakers: Anthony Daniels, Heather Smith, Anton Gunn, Carmen Berkley

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TBA08-131

Out of Iraq: The Strategy to End the War

Speakers: John Cavanagh, Eli Pariser, Camilo Mejía, Leslie Cagan, Tom Swan

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NPSG13-134

Preparing for the Boomers and Beyond: Strategies for Creating Communities for All Ages

Speakers: Sandy Markwood, Chief Executive Officer, N4A; Rodney Harrell, Strategic Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute, AARP; Jana Lynott, Strategic Policy Advisor, Public Policy Institute, AARP; Laura Keyes, Community Development Manager, Atlanta Regional Commission. Kathy Sykes, Aging Initiative Senior Advisor, U.S. EPA

Many communities are facing aging of their populations. How do communities ensure that all residents, regardless of age, ethnicity, income or physical ability are able to benefit from livability improvements? The leading edge of the Baby Boom generation began turning 65 years old in 2011. By 2030, the Census Bureau projects that over 72 million people and 19% of the population will be in that age group. However, as communities age along with their populations, many are not prepared to deal with the challenges that their residents will face. Experts on creating healthy, sustainable communities for older adults and people of all ages discuss the challenges facing communities and solutions that states and communities are using to address these challenges. Research and examples of successful efforts at the national, state and local levels are highlighted.

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SEA09-118

Software & Social Impact: Two Case Studies

Speakers: Adam Licht & Theresa Stroisch

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TBA08-210

Luncheon: Lee Camp - The New Green Deal

Speakers: Majora Carter, Phil Angelides, Joel Rogers

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NPSG13-112

Greening Rural Communities: Smart Growth, Sustainability & Small to Mid-sized Town Neighborhood Development in North Carolina

Speakers: Frank Wilson, Mayor, City of Bolton, NC; Terry Bellamy, Mayor, City of Ashville, NC. Moderator: Deeohn Ferris, President, Sustainable Community Development Group, Inc.

The challenges of transitioning to the new more energy-efficient economy and achieving smart growth and sustainable development take on different dimensions in rural and small municipalities due to smaller economies. Transitioning to a green economy is complicated by the challenges of attracting and retaining employers, the tax base, and the scale of rural unemployment. Mayors are the front-line policy decision-makers at the local level who are responsible for ensuring that all citizens benefit from the tools and resources of the emerging green economy while addressing key issues that principally affect distressed neighborhoods. In this session, rural and small to mid-sized town mayors discuss ways that their development strategies have addressed equity issues in North Carolina communities. The audience is encouraged to share rural and small to mid-sized town initiatives that have worked in other states, challenges, best practices and lessons learned.

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NPSG13-137

Partnership for Sustainable Communities: Case Studies in Environmental Justice

Speakers: David Kooris, Director, Office of Planning and Economic Development, City of Bridgeport, CT; Clare Watson, Community Development Coordinator, City of Montgomery, AL. Moderator: John Frece, Director, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA

The Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a collaboration among HUD, EPA, and DOT, works with communities to help them grow in ways that improve access to affordable housing, increase transportation options, and protect the environment. In June 2012, the Partnership issued a three-year anniversary report featuring case studies of six communities. The panelists discuss the environmental justice stories in three of those communities and how the Partnership is helping them achieve their goals for growth.

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NPSG12-132

Is the Sky Falling? Transportation Debate

Speakers: Laura Cohen, Western Region Director, Rails-to-Trails Conservancy; James Corless, Director, Transportation for America; Greg Cox, Supervisor, San Diego County, CA; Shireen Malekafzali, Senior Associate, Policylink

Transit and bike/pedestrian funding programs are at risk; equity and livable community policy incentives proposed by stakeholders may be swept aside. The current extension bill expires March 31 and the stakes have never been higher. This session will provide smart growth practitioners with an update on the status of the bill, how it will impact communities in short & long term, and what steps they can take to influence the bill or how it's implemented in their region. The focus will be on transit/walking/biking programs, and livable community performance measures.

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SEA08-115

Overcoming the Waves of Resistance

Speakers: Tangie Newborn

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ELIN08-100

Elinor Stutz

Listen to Elinor's talk at the Circle of Women Conference, and learn how to navigate your business to the next "Smooth Sale."

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NPSG12-144

Charrettes and the Next Generation of Public Involvement and Budgets

Speakers: Ken Snyder, Director, PlaceMatters; Darin Dinsmore, President, CrowdBrite; Jason Lally, Director, Decision Lab, PlaceMatters

The web makes it possible for the public as well as consultants to participate from a distance. This technology can save money but what are the costs to shared learning and the building of relationships? This session presents the latest tools, techniques and the trade-offs of social media and web-base participation tools within the context of the face-to-face public design charrette format

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NPSG13-304

Food Access Equity: From Policy to Action

2 hour session.

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$30.00

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ETO08-C4

Media Image of The Other: Framing Our Selves

Speakers: Maha ElGenaidi, Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Michael Wolfe. Moderator: Fred Luskin, PhD

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ConBio12-335

Ecological Theory & Genetics

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SEA08-227

Robin Hood Marketing

Speakers: Katya Andresen

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NPSG12-131

Still Starbucks-Free: Rural Main Streets—Small towns need vitality, too!

Speakers: Kathy Callies, Acting President, Rural Learning Center; Dennis (Denny) Ross, Mayor, City of Maupin, OR; JoAnne Bush, Mayor, City of Lake Village, AR; Chris Beck, Senior Projects Advisor, U.S.D.A.-Rural Development

Given the global economy's demand for greater economic efficiencies (fewer small farmers) and environmentally sound natural resource practices (less extraction), many rural communities are facing a dramatic shift in the economic opportunities available to them. Starbucks may not be coming any time soon, but rural leaders understand that creating great places to live and work is an essential ingredient to their economic future and have requested USDA funding for strategic, place-based investments. This session focuses on three case studies: a new meeting center in Howard, South Dakota, a revived market in Maupin, Oregon, and a historic renovation in Lake Village, Arkansas.

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SEA09-208

Using IT Training as the Lever to Maximize Triple Bottom Line Impact

Speakers: Kim Fox, Barrie Hathaway

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NPSG12-166

Kicking the (driving) Habit: Low-Density Cities Move to Sustainable Transportation

Speakers: Ellen Greenberg, Associate Principal, Arup; Dena Belzer, President, Strategic Economics; Eileen Yazzie, Transportation Planning Project Manager, Maricopa Association of Governments, AZ; Shannon Scutari, Sustainable Communities Working Group; Jason King, AICP, CNU-A, Town Planner, Dover, Kohl & Partners; Susie Byrd, Councilmember, City of El Paso, TX; Katie Updike, Managing Partner, Building Solutions, LLC

This 'talk show' style session investigates two tales from the Southwest. In El Paso, Texas, the City Council has resolved to become the "Least Car-Dependent City in the Southwest," launching initiatives that have brought the City into the national discussion on multi-modal placemaking. In Arizona, the Maricopa Association of Governments' Sustainable Transportation and Land Use Integration Study is trying to jump start the region’s path to a sustainable transportation future.

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AGPA13-220

Overcoming Grievance & Resentment Thinking: The Power of Forgiveness

Speakers: Cindy Maynard, Miriam Ribeiro

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$15.00

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ConBio12-334

Disturbance Technology

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ConBio12-222

WKS 6: Consolidating the Criteria for Identifying Sites of Significance for Biodiversity Conservation

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TBA07-216

Making College Affordable: The National Imperative

Speakers: Robert Brandon, Rep. Joe Courtney (D-CT), Tamara Draut, Anthony Daniels, Jennifer Pae

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$12.00

$12.00

SEA08-215

Finding the Right Fit

Speakers: Ann McCreedy

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

SEA09-102

Pricing Services Before You ‘Social Venture’

Speakers: Tracey Foreman & Jean Hardy Robinson

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$12.00

$12.00

R-ARGV-000

Active Resistance: Full Set Special (4 hrs total)

Audio CDs: 4

Audio CD

$50.00

$50.00

NPSG12-303

Advancing Equity in Minneapolis/St. Paul: Action Research, Advocacy and Place-Making

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

Subtotal

$1069.00