NPSG12-250

Building Support for Mobility Options: Effective Outreach Tactics for Engaging Grassroots Groups and Underserved Communities

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-211

Rural Sustainability: Federal Collaboration, Regional Innovation and the Partnership for Sustainable Communities

Speakers: David Doyle, Sustainable Communities Coordinator, U.S. EPA, Region 7; Elizabeth Wampler, Program Associate/Data Analyst, Reconnecting America; Annie Goode, Environmental Protection Specialist, USDA/Rural Development

In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation and Department of Housing and Urban Development formed the Partnership for Sustainable Communities aimed at improving rural quality of life including access to affordable housing, enhanced rural transportation options and environmental protection. In collaboration with USDA, the Partnership is working to show how its six "livability principles" support economically and environmentally vibrant rural communities.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-306

Public Health, Transportation, & Land Use: Institutionalizing Partnerships & Practices to Create Healthier Communities

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-149

Growing Wealthier Training: Achieving the Prosperity Benefits of Transit and Smart Growth

Speakers: Charles Kooshian, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Center for Clean Air Policy; Nadine Fogarty, Principal, Strategic Economics Inc.; Geoffrey Anderson, President and CEO, Smart Growth America; Joe DiStefano, AICP, Principal, Calthorpe Associates; Dennis M. Leach, AICP, Director of Transportation, Arlington Department of Environmental Services, Transportation Division; Michael Hoglund, Director, Metro - Research Center

Enhanced understanding of the economic, quality of life and equity benefits of Transit-Oriented-Development (TOD) and smart growth is essential for actually realizing these benefits. This training session will provide insight from experts in research, development, planning, modeling, TOD, policy and practice to guide participants on how to assess and maximize the broad benefits of TOD and smart growth, including affordable housing, and household transportation and energy costs.

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-326

Planning and Managing the Urban Forest to Build Community Sustainability and Resilience

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-301

Climate and Energy Planning: Community Partnerships that Work

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

AGPA10-310

The Therapeutic Impact of Therapist Self-Disclosure in Groups

Speakers: Bonnie Buchele, Shoshana Ben- Noam, Louisa Powell Livingston

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$25.00

$25.00

NPSG12-312

Linking Jobs, Housing, and Transit for Economic Development: Local and National Perspectives

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-130

Back to Planning School: What You Need to Know for Successful and Collaborative School Siting

Speakers: Fred Yeager, Assistant Director, California Department of Education, School Facilities Planning Division; Jeff Vincent, PhD, Deputy Director, Center for Cities and Schools, University of California, Berkeley; Cynthia Bryant, Senior Vice President, Government Affairs, California Charter Schools Association; Chris Grimes, Director of Facilities Development, Roseville Joint Union High School District

Strategically locating new schools and revitalizing existing schools with consideration of other public services is an important part of achieving regional environmental goals, increasing service levels to students and the community, and leveraging funding opportunities. Yet, the relationship between school districts, land developers, and cities or counties can be tense, particularly where there is little or no coordination during planning processes. This workshop highlights the guiding principles and standards for locating schools and how these standards can support many of the common goals shared by school districts and local governments.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-320

Luncheon. EPA National Awards for Smart Growth Achievement Videos

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-127

Seeds for Change: Creative Urban Gardens

Speakers: Brian Albright, Director of Parks and Recreation, San Diego County, CA; Rebecca Draper, Director of Neighborhood Improvement Projects, Los Angeles Neighborhood Initiative

Existing parks and public lands offer outstanding opportunities to enable people access to fresh food at a minimal cost while encouraging sustainable practices and promoting healthy lifestyle behaviors. This session will highlight strategies on how to develop partnerships with park and recreation agencies; provide examples of innovative community gardens parks, creative urban agriculture initiatives, and edible landscape projects; and identify practical solutions and give guidance for challenges commonly encountered.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-129

Tax Foreclosure Reform: A New Approach for Stronger Neighborhoods

Speakers: Kendall Pelling, Project Manager, East Liberty Development, Inc.; Honorable Christopher Ross, Representative, Pennsylvania House of Representatives; Daniel Kildee, President / CEO, Center for Community Progress

Tax delinquent and vacant properties can be a tremendous asset when they are restored back to productive use—reinvigorating downtowns, housing new businesses, creating new housing opportunities in existing neighborhoods, and raising quality of life through parks and other green uses. This session will explore the issues at play in the tax foreclosure system and review how two states have reformed, or are seeking to reform, the laws that balance the need for efficient tax collection with the long-term interests of the communities they impact.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-107

Restoring Prosperity in America's Cities

Speakers: Lavea Brachman JD, MCP, Executive Director, Greater Ohio Policy Center & Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program; Dan Kildee, President and Chief Executive Officer, Center for Community Progress; Odail Thorns, Community Development Director, City of Saginaw, MI; William A. Johnson, Jr., Distinguished Professor of Public Policy and Urban Studies, Rochester Institute of Technology; Andre Brumfield, Assoc. AIA, Principal | Director of Urban Design + Planning, AECOM

As many American cities attempt to rebound from housing and economic decline, some continue to struggle as job losses and increasing inventories of vacant properties add to decades of population loss. This session explores how America's "Legacy Cities"—cities like Cleveland, Detroit, Pittsburgh, and St. Louis—are employing rightsizing approaches to adapt to a changing economy and to position themselves for new growth and investment. Hear a multi disciplinary panel of policy leaders, advocates, and local officials as they explore how communities nationally, in Ohio, New York and Michigan have moved beyond the rhetoric of rightsizing and have started the process of retooling and reimagining their communities and regions. Discussion topics include: a new role for federal community development policy, the challenges of managing and rightsizing infrastructure, authentic community engagement, balancing public investment and market demand, equity, and strategies for local community driven change.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-325

Development-Oriented Transit: Innovative Economic Tools and Models

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

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

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-246

Jobs, the Workforce, and the Economy: Rethinking The Role of Smart Growth and Sustainability

Audio CDs: 2

Audio CD

$30.00

$30.00

NPSG12-100

Advancing Equity through Planning: Challenges & Opportunities

Across the country, communities and regions are finding that inclusive, equitable planning processes empower them to address the economic, environmental, health, and other challenges they face. However, integrating social equity, affordability, economic and workforce development, and environmental justice into local and regional planning is not always straightforward. This half-day session draws on the experiences of HUD’s Sustainable Communities Regional Planning and Community Challenge grantees to shed light on the barriers and opportunities related to fair and equitable planning. Structured as a working session, the half-day event highlights and builds on the ongoing efforts of 2010 and 2011 grantee teams. Participants – practitioners from the equitable development, environmental justice, smart growth, and planning fields – take part in dialogues with the grantees about how to apply lessons learned more broadly. The event concludes with reflections by federal and philanthropic leaders on how local, regional, state, tribal, federal, and foundation stakeholders can work together to advance inclusive planning and growth.

Audio CDs: 4

Audio CD

$55.00

$55.00

NPSG12-340

Closing Plenary: Community Design and Urban Innovation for a Knowledge Economy

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

NPSG12-123

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.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-122

Smart Growth Performance Measurement

Speakers: Jonathan Sage-Martinson, Director, Central Corridor Funders Collaborative; Andrew Hume, AICP, Planner, Las Cruces Metropolitan Planning Organization; Doug Johnson, Senior Transportation Planner, Metropolitan Transportation Commission; Jeff Ang-Olson, Principal, ICF International; Kevin Ramsey, Ph.D., Policy Research Fellow, Office of Sustainable Communities, U.S. EPA

This interactive session explores the benefits of implementing a system of performance measurement for evaluating progress towards desired community outcomes, such as reducing household transportation costs, increasing the number of affordable homes that are well served by transit, or preserving agricultural and natural resource lands. Panelists present short case studies that demonstrate how performance measures have been used to inform planning, policy, and investment decisions in a variety of rural, suburban, and urban communities.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-323

Eat, Play, Live: Creative Investments Towards Equitable Health Access

MP3

$10.00

$10.00

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.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-124

Just How Smart is Our Growth? Getting Ready for a Maturing America

Speakers: Rebecca Hunter, MEd, Institute on Aging and CDC-Healthy Aging Research Network, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Chris Kochtitzky, MSP, Associate Director for Program Development, Division of Emergency and Environmental Health Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Mary A. Leary, PhD, Senior Director, Easter Seals Project ACTION, National Center on Senior Transportation & Other Transportation Initiatives; Joan M. Twiss, MA, Executive Director, Center for Civic Partnerships

The startling new n4a report, The Maturing of America, concludes that many communities are unprepared for their quickly aging populations, with 'no where near the level of progress that has to be made to ensure that communities are livable for people of all ages'. This session provides practical, evidence-based strategies for integrated planning and implementation consistent with Smart Growth, but also specifically responsive to an aging population diverse in ethnicity, resources, health and functional status.

Audio CDs: 1

Audio CD

$15.00

$15.00

NPSG12-000

Full Set of All 105 Sessions

Mail order only. All sessions on separate CDs, includes free binders; or all sessions on free USB in mp3 format (easily transferred to iPad, iPod, or computer where it can be played in iTunes or Windows Media Player.

Audio CDs: 132

Audio CD

$695.00

$695.00

NPSG12-149

Growing Wealthier Training: Achieving the Prosperity Benefits of Transit and Smart Growth

Speakers: Charles Kooshian, Senior Transportation Policy Analyst, Center for Clean Air Policy; Nadine Fogarty, Principal, Strategic Economics Inc.; Geoffrey Anderson, President and CEO, Smart Growth America; Joe DiStefano, AICP, Principal, Calthorpe Associates; Dennis M. Leach, AICP, Director of Transportation, Arlington Department of Environmental Services, Transportation Division; Michael Hoglund, Director, Metro - Research Center

Enhanced understanding of the economic, quality of life and equity benefits of Transit-Oriented-Development (TOD) and smart growth is essential for actually realizing these benefits. This training session will provide insight from experts in research, development, planning, modeling, TOD, policy and practice to guide participants on how to assess and maximize the broad benefits of TOD and smart growth, including affordable housing, and household transportation and energy costs.

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

NPSG12-250

Building Support for Mobility Options: Effective Outreach Tactics for Engaging Grassroots Groups and Underserved Communities

MP3

$20.00

$20.00

Subtotal

$1230.00