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Archive for the ‘Sustainability’ Category

Guest on The Infra Blog: Hon. Steve Israel, U.S. Congressman, Long Island

Monday, April 4th, 2011
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Steven C.F. Anderson, Managing Director, InfrastructureUSA, spoke with Hon. Steve Israel at Banking on the Future, a conference presented by Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer, in cooperation with Bernard L. Schwartz, Congressman Steve Israel and the Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute. The event took place on March 14th, at the William and Anita […]

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NYC, April 15th: Regional Plan Association’s Regional Assembly 2011: “Innovation and the Global City”

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
2011 Regional Assembly: Innovation & the Global City

This year’s Regional Assembly, “Innovation and the Global City,” will explore what global cities, from Singapore to London, and from Stockholm to New York, are doing to remain competitive on the world stage.

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Urban Growth in the Northeast Megaregion

Thursday, March 24th, 2011
Urban Growth in the Northeast by Decade

AMERICA 2050 & REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION
Over the next generation, the 13-state Northeast Megaregion is expected to grow by 26%, adding about 18 million residents. To assess the implications of this change for landscape conservation, Regional Plan Association and America 2050’s Northeast Landscape Initiatives Atlas now includes maps showing historic and current land use, and projections of future urban growth in the Northeast Megaregion through 2040.

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Rails to Real Estate: Development Patterns along Three New Transit Lines

Wednesday, March 23rd, 2011
Figure 1-1: New Development along the Three New Transit Lines*

RECONNECTING AMERICA
This report documents real estate development patterns along three recently constructed light rail transit lines in the United States. This topic is important for local planning practitioners, transit agencies, community members and other stakeholders in their efforts to plan for new transit investments and foster transit-oriented development (TOD). Setting realistic expectations about the scale, timing and location of private investment along new transit lines is especially critical where new development is expected to help pay for needed transit improvements, neighborhood amenities, or other community benefits.

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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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Energy 101: Solar PV

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can generate clean, cost-effective power anywhere the sun shines. This video shows how a PV panel converts the energy of the sun into renewable electricity to power homes and businesses.
-USdepartmentofenergy on YouTube

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Cecilia Estolano, Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Green For All

Thursday, March 3rd, 2011
Estolano, Cecilia

As Green For All’s Chief Strategist on State and Local Initiatives, Cecilia Estolano oversees the organization’s State and Local Initiatives Team and Capital Access Program. She is charged with spearheading Green For All’s effort to scale public-private partnerships to grow family-supporting green jobs in cities across the United States, and advocates for broad access and opportunity in all sectors of the clean-energy economy.

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Invest in a Prosperous and Healthy America

Wednesday, February 16th, 2011

BLUEGREEN ALLIANCE
We are well into the 21st century, but American transportation is still rooted firmly in the 20th. Our highways, transit and rail infrastructure need massive investment; further delay only hinders our economy and limits employment potential. Investments in a 21st century transportation system, as well as building the next generation of cleaner and electric vehicles, will create manufacturing jobs across the nation.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Andy Kunz, President & CEO, US High Speed Rail Association

Tuesday, February 1st, 2011
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A long time high speed rail promoter, Andy Kunz brings 30 years of successful business experience to the US High Speed Rail Association (USHSR)…Mr. Kunz is a national award-winning designer with a background in community design, urban planning, and sustainability. He has designed a wide variety of projects including a number of new towns and transit oriented developments…As an authority on high speed rail, Mr. Kunz is committed to further developing USHSR and the high speed rail network in America.

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