Recession Archives - Page 6 of 7 - InfrastructureUSA: Citizen Dialogue About Civil Infrastructure InfrastructureUSA: Citizen Dialogue About Civil Infrastructure

Archive for the ‘Recession’ Category

U.S. Climate Action Report 2010

Wednesday, June 2nd, 2010

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Throughout the United States, Americans are taking action to address the grave challenge of climate change, and to promote a sustainable and prosperous clean energy future. These efforts are occurring at all levels of government, in the private sector, and through the everyday decisions of individual citizens.

This U.S. Climate Action Report 2010 (2010 CAR) sets out the major actions the U.S. government is taking at the federal level, highlights examples of state and local actions, and outlines U.S. efforts to assist other countries’ efforts to address climate change.

View this complete post...

Tags: 2010 CAR, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, ARRA, Barack Obama, Department of State, Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Greenhouse, Obama Administration, State Department
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Carbon Tax, Clean Air, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Economic Stimulus, Energy, Environment, Funding, Global, Green, Hazardous Waste, Infra Views, Land Use, LEED, National, Policy, Pollution, Public Transportation, Recession, Recovery, Smart Growth, Solid Waste, Sustainability, Tax, Technology, Urban Planning, Wastewater

Comments Off on U.S. Climate Action Report 2010

Guest on The Infra Blog: Thomas Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development, Urban Land Institute, and former Mayor of Pittsburgh

Thursday, May 6th, 2010

Thomas Murphy is a senior resident fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for urban development, Urban Land Institute. Since January 2006, Murphy had served as ULI’s Gulf Coast liaison, helping to coordinate with the leadership of New Orleans and the public to advance the implementation of rebuilding recommendations made by ULI’s advisory services panel last fall. Prior to his service as the ULI Gulf Coast liaison, Murphy served three terms as the mayor of Pittsburgh, from January 1994 through December 2005. From 1979 through 1993, Murphy served eight terms in the Pennsylvania State General Assembly House of Representatives. He is an honorary member of the American Society of Landscape Architects; a board member of the Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities; and a board member of the National Rails to Trails Conservancy.

View this complete post...

Tags: American Society of Landscape Architects, ASLA, Gulf Coast, House of Representatives, Mayor, National Rails to Trails Conservancy, PA, Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania League of Cities and Municipalities, Pittsburgh, Thomas Murphy, ULI, Urban land Institute
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Congestion, Employment, Funding, Guests on The Infra Blog, Highway, Jobs, Land Use, Levees, National, Policy, Public Parks & Recreation, Recession, Recovery, Roads, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Tax, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

Comments Off on Guest on The Infra Blog: Thomas Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development, Urban Land Institute, and former Mayor of Pittsburgh

Full Speed Ahead: Creating Green Jobs Through Freight Rail Expansion

Wednesday, May 5th, 2010

BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE & ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE
Economic models estimate about 7,800 green jobs are created for every billion dollars of freight rail capital investment. Furthermore, the industry has nearly doubled the amount of goods it has shipped without increasing fuel consumption over the past three decades, and creates a fraction of the pollution of other transport modes such as trucking and aviation. Its continued growth will generate green jobs, reduce dependence on foreign oil and contribute to solving climate change.

View this complete post...

Tags: BGA, BlueGreen Alliance, Economic Policy Institute, EPI, Freight, Job Creation
Posted in Competitiveness, Congestion, Economic Stimulus, Employment, Energy, Environment, Equity, Green, Infra Views, Jobs, National, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Transit

Comments Off on Full Speed Ahead: Creating Green Jobs Through Freight Rail Expansion

Iona College Hosts Infrastructure Conference

Wednesday, April 14th, 2010

On April 8th, 2010, Iona College in New Rochelle, NY hosted the conference, “Confronting the Crisis: Solving Our Regional Transportation Infrastructure Issues.” Steve Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA.org talked with some of the speakers:
Thomas DiNapoli, Comptroller, State of New York
Brother James Laguori, President, Iona College
Stanley Gee, Acting Commissioner, New York State Department of Transportation

View this complete post...

Tags: infrastructure conference, Iona, Iona College, James Laguori, New Rochelle, New York, NY, Stanley Gee, Tappan Zee, Thomas DiNapoli
Posted in Accountability, Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Equity, Local, National, Public Opinion, Recession, Recovery, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning

Comments Off on Iona College Hosts Infrastructure Conference

Just Released: Infra report from Urban Land Institute

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Infrastructure 2010: Investment Imperative, the latest annual infrastructure report by Urban Land Institute and Ernst & Young, focuses on water infra and urges decision-makers to view infrastructure as a long-term investment.

View this complete post...

Tags: Ernst & Young, Freshwater, Saltwater, ULI, Urban land Institute
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Buses, Clean Air, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Congestion, Dams, Drinking Water, Economic Stimulus, Employment, Energy, Environment, Funding, Global, Green, High Speed Rail, Highway, Inland Waterways, Jobs, Land Use, Levees, Local, National, Policy, Private Investment, Public Transportation, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Seaports, Smart Grid, Smart Growth, Solid Waste, Sustainability, The Infra Blog, Transit, Urban Planning, Wastewater, Water Treatment

Comments Off on Just Released: Infra report from Urban Land Institute

INFRASTRUCTURE 2010: INVESTMENT IMPERATIVE

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

URBAN LAND INSTITUTE
Falling behind global competitors, the United States struggles to gain traction in planning and building the critical infrastructure investments that are necessary to ensure future economic growth and support a rapidly expanding population.

Recent federal stimulus spending addresses some pressing repair needs for transport- and water-related systems and provides seed funding for high-speed rail in important travel corridors, as well as new energy infrastructure. But recession-busted government budgets, entitlement and defense expenditures, and ballooning health care costs push infrastructure down most political priority lists—leaders continue to procrastinate when it comes to new investments as stressed taxpayers balk at more spending.

View this complete post...

Tags: Ernst & Young, ULI, Urban land Institute
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Clean Air, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Congestion, Dams, Drinking Water, Energy, Environment, Funding, Global, Green, High Speed Rail, Highway, Infra Views, Inland Waterways, Jobs, Land Use, National, Policy, Public Opinion, Public Transportation, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Roads, Seaports, Smart Grid, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Technology, Transit, Urban Planning, Wastewater, Water Treatment

Comments Off on INFRASTRUCTURE 2010: INVESTMENT IMPERATIVE

Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

Kathryn Phillips is the Director of the California Transportation and Air Initiative at Environmental Defense Fund. Before joining Environmental Defense, Kathryn was the senior policy advisor at the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies (CEERT) in Sacramento, and a lobbyist for V. John White Associates. Kathryn also worked for nearly 20 years as a journalist. She wrote for newspapers and magazines on a range of topics, specializing in the later years on science and environmental issues. She is the author of two books about environmental issues.

View this complete post...

Tags: Blueprint America, CA, California Transportation and Air Initiative, CEERT, Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, EDF, Environmental Defense Fund, Freight, Kathryn Phillips, Sacramento
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Competitiveness, Congestion, Environment, Green, Guests on The Infra Blog, Highway, National, Pollution, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Roads, Seaports, The Infra Blog, Transit

Comments Off on Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Guest on The Infra Blog: Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010

Petra Todorovich is Director of America 2050, a national urban planning initiative to develop an infrastructure and growth strategy for the United States. She has written articles on transportation and infrastructure policy and is a frequent speaker on the topics of transportation policy, megaregions, and national planning. Prior to the launch of America 2050, Ms. Todorovich directed Regional Plan Association’s Region’s Core program and coordinated the Civic Alliance to Rebuild Downtown New York, a network of organizations that came together shortly after 9/11 to promote the rebuilding of the World Trade Center site and Lower Manhattan.

View this complete post...

Tags: America 2050, Gas tax, New York, NY, Petra Todorovich, Regional Plan Association, RPA
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Competitiveness, Employment, Funding, High Speed Rail, Highway, National, Policy, Public Transportation, Rail, Recession, Recovery, The Infra Blog, Transit

Comments Off on Guest on The Infra Blog: Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050

The Public Works

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

URBAN OMNIBUS
Yes indeed, today in America we know that something is wrong, and we would like things to be better. Certainly the design disciplines have been energetic in engaging the converging crises of energy, housing, infrastructure, environment, climate change…

View this complete post...

Tags: American Smart Infrastructure Act, Architectural League, ASIA, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Nancy Levinson, New York, NY, TARP, Tony Judt, Urban Omnibus, Vishaan Chakrabarti
Posted in Aging Infrastructure, Bridges, Broadband, Buses, Climate Change, Competitiveness, Employment, Energy, Environment, Funding, High Speed Rail, Infra Views, National, Policy, Private Investment, Public Opinion, Public Transportation, Rail, Recession, Recovery, Smart Growth, Sustainability, Technology, Transit, Urban Planning

Comments Off on The Public Works

Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010

POLICYLINK
In St. Louis, MO, major cuts in bus service this spring left workers, students, disabled people, and elderly residents stranded and feeling bereft. Stuart and Dianne Falk, who are both in wheelchairs, told CNN they no longer would be able to get to the gym or the downtown theater company where they volunteer. “To be saddled, to be imprisoned, that is what it is going to feeling like,” Stuart Falk said…

View this complete post...

Tags: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Angela Glover Blackwell, ARRA, Convergence Partnership, Health, Highway Trust Fund, HTF, James Oberstar, Judith Bell, Larry Cohen, Policylink, Prevention Institute, safety, Shireen Malekafzali, Susan Polan, Tracy Kolian
Posted in Accountability, Democrat, Equity, Highway, Infra Views, Land Use, National, Policy, Pollution, Public Opinion, Public Transportation, Racism, Recession, Recovery, Roads, Smart Growth, Transit, Urban Planning

View 2 Comments on this post »

Follow InfrastructureUSA

InfrastructureUSA.org is a non-profit, online community whose mission is to bring together infrastructure experts, industry leaders, government officials and most especially interested citizens, to participate in vigorous conversation and generate action to address the U.S. infrastructure crisis.

Support for InfrastructureUSA.org
has been provided by these organizations and individuals:

Archive for the ‘Recession’ Category

U.S. Climate Action Report 2010

Guest on The Infra Blog: Thomas Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, ULI/Klingbeil Family Chair for Urban Development, Urban Land Institute, and former Mayor of Pittsburgh

Full Speed Ahead: Creating Green Jobs Through Freight Rail Expansion

Iona College Hosts Infrastructure Conference

Just Released: Infra report from Urban Land Institute

INFRASTRUCTURE 2010: INVESTMENT IMPERATIVE

Guest on The Infra Blog: Kathryn Phillips, Director, California Transportation and Air Initiative, Environmental Defense Fund

Guest on The Infra Blog: Petra Todorovich, Director, America 2050

The Public Works

Healthy, Equitable Transportation Policy: Recommendations and Research

CATEGORIES

Dear Friends,

InfrastructureUSA.org is a non-profit, online community whose mission is to bring together infrastructure experts, industry leaders, government officials and most especially interested citizens, to participate in vigorous conversation and generate action to address the U.S. infrastructure crisis.

Support for InfrastructureUSA.org has been provided by these organizations and individuals:

Archive for the ‘Recession’ Category

CATEGORIES

Dear Friends,

Support for InfrastructureUSA.org
has been provided by these organizations and individuals: