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Reducing Foreclosures and Environmental Impacts through Location-Efficient Neighborhood Design

Friday, June 10th, 2011
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NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL
While the nation continues to grapple with a troubling housing market and a rash of mortgage defaults, new research has emerged drawing a direct link between “location efficiency”—a measure of the transportation costs in a given area—and mortgage foreclosure rates. The study shows that factors such as neighborhood compactness, access to public transit, and rates of vehicle ownership are key to predicting mortgage performance and should be taken more seriously by mortgage underwriters, policymakers, and real estate developers.

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Green Power 2011: The KPMG renewable energy M&A report

Wednesday, June 8th, 2011
KPMG: Green Power 2011

KPMG
This report provides insight into global mergers & acquisitions (M&A) activity in the renewable energy sector. The findings are based on a survey of 500 senior executives active in the renewable energy industry worldwide. The survey and report were written in collaboration with Clean Energy pipeline, a specialist renewable energy research and data provider. Transaction data and statistics included in the report have been extracted directly from Clean Energy pipeline’s databases. Clean Energy pipeline is a division of VB/Research.

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Transit-Oriented Development Strategic Plan

Monday, April 18th, 2011
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THE CENTER FOR TRANSIT-ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT I. Introduction The Portland region has a successful history at achieving transit-oriented development and compact growth. It continues to outperform many of its peer regions when it comes to connecting jobs to transit, promoting alternative modes of transportation beyond the car, and promoting successful new compact development. But, there is […]

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Rethinking Federal Investments in Rural Transportation

Tuesday, April 12th, 2011
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RURAL POLICY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
The Rural Policy Research Institute (RUPRI) offers this Rural Policy Brief as a contribution to the current dialogue regarding the ongoing nature and scope of transportation investment in the United States, specifically the implications of these decisions for our nation’s rural communities and regions. The policy recommendations outlined below reflect a detailed, evidence-based analysis, but also incorporate the accumulated policy and program insights gained in over two decades of RUPRI assessment of the rural differential impacts of public policy.

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The Federal Transportation Program and the New Budget Realities

Thursday, April 7th, 2011

As Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan is fond of saying, the debate in Congress has changed from how much we should spend to how much spending we should cut. The April 5 release of his proposed FY 2012 Budget Resolution, subtitled “The Path to Prosperity,” testifies to this new resolve. The New York Times’ David Brooks calls Ryan’s report “the most comprehensive and most courageous budget reform proposal any of us have seen in our lifetimes.” Although the Budget Resolution nominally addresses the FY 2012 budget, its message is likely to resound and influence the debate about fiscal policy and the role of the federal government in the U.S. economy long into the future.

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The End of the Line: A highly ambitious high-speed rail programme in the US has hit the buffer of fiscal reality

Thursday, March 31st, 2011

A well-intentioned but quixotic presidential vision, to make high-speed rail service available to 80 percent of Americans in 25 years, is being buffeted by a string of reversals. And, like its British counterpart, the London-to-Birmingham high speed rail line (HS2), it is the subject of an impassioned debate. Called by congressional leaders “an absolute disaster,” and a “poor investment,”, the President’s ambitious initiative is unraveling at the hands of a deficit-conscious Congress, fiscally-strapped states, reluctant private railroad companies and a skeptical public.

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Shining Bright: Growing Solar Jobs in Iowa

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Table 1. Solar capacity installation as projected in five-year, 300 MW model

THE IOWA POLICY PROJECT
Can solar energy help build the Iowa economy? This analysis answers that question with a resounding “Yes.” Iowa has almost all the right ingredients on hand: demonstrated ability to be a renewable energy leader with wind power, a solar energy industry that already employs people across the state, and more sunshine than New Jersey or Germany, both leading global solar markets.

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Rebuilding Green: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Green Economy

Monday, March 14th, 2011
FIGURE 3. What was in the Recovery Act?

The ARRA’s enactment represented a dramatic attempt to resuscitate a U.S. economy in free-fall…Two years later, the Recovery Act’s public investments have not only saved and created millions of jobs, but have also represented an unprecedented down payment on the nation’s emerging green economy. As outlined in this report, Rebuilding Green: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and the Green Economy, the success of that down payment makes a strong case for additional public investment in the green economy as a centerpiece of a national strategy to solve the continuing unemployment crisis.

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Pathways Out of Poverty for Vulnerable Californians: Policies that Prepare the Workforce for Middle-Skill Infrastructure Jobs

Thursday, February 24th, 2011
Enrollments and Graduates: Infrastructure Courses

POLICYLINK
Infrastructure, so long relegated to the background in the worlds of economic policy, urban revitalization, and workforce development, has recently become the center of much more attention. Due to the federal economic stimulus, the growing interest in the green economy, and crises caused by underinvestment in public works, infrastructure has enjoyed a much higher profile of late.

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State Transportation Reform: Cut to Invest in Transportation to Deliver the Next Economy

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2011
Table 1: State revenues, by source, used by select states for state-administered highways, 1995–2008

BROOKINGS-ROCKEFELLER PROJECT ON STATE AND METROPOLITAN INNOVATION
A 21st century state transportation strategy that strengthens metropolitan America and is tightly linked to the vital elements of the next economy is critical for our nation to emerge from the rubble of the recession. Yet state transportation systems face two overarching challenges: they are both broke and broken.

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