Bike Commuter Act Rides the Bailout
Outside Online, CA - 3 Oct 2008
--"Put a nationwide Complete Streets policy into effect. Require it from anyone requesting federal highway tax money."

How to Save the World
OneWorld US, DC - 3 Oct 2008
... or working for “complete streets” that are pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly in your community. What could be more exciting and rewarding? ...

Group Paves Way For Green Space
CU Columbia Spectator, NY - 1 Oct 2008
In her two-year tenure as DOT commissioner, Sadik-Khan has also advocated for “complete streets,” streets which are usable not only by motorists but ...

Meeting to discuss safer communities for bicyclists, pedestrians
Evening Observer, NY - 1 Oct 2008
Cornell Local Roads Program is conducting to a Complete Streets Workshop to assist local officials and planning board members to safely accommodate ...

Speeders, Beware
New Haven Independent,  USA - 30 Sep 2008
The new focus on traffic ties into a grassroots movement for traffic-calming, which culminated in a Complete Streets proposal introduced before the Board of ...

Easley looks at ways to become a bicycle-friendly community
Greenville News, SC - 30 Sep 2008
One aspect of the bicycle-friendly community program is having what de Vlaming called "complete streets" where bicycle lanes, sidewalks and crosswalks are ...

Trail president looks to develop open space for county pedestrians
Lancaster Eagle Gazette, OH - 30 Sep 2008
"There is a phrase called 'complete streets,' which means you design a street, not only to be friendly to automobiles, but to be a transit to pedestrians," ...

First stretch of bike lanes formally opens
Rockford Register Star, IL - 29 Sep 2008
Officials said the addition of bike lanes and the process of educating drivers to share streets with bicyclists are part of creating “complete streets,” ...

Leaders open Rockford bicycle paths
Rockford Register Star, IL - 29 Sep 2008
The addition of bike lanes and the process of educating drivers to share streets with bicyclists are part of creating “complete streets,” streets that are ...

"Community Developer's Guide to Improving Schools in Revitalizing Neighborhoods," a report from Enterprise, shows community developers how to work with school systems to improve individual schools.

The Funders' Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities offers five PowerPoint presentations from its September 11, 2008 meeting, "Funders Interested in Restoring Prosperity in Older Industrial Cities."

This PowerPoint presentation from the National Association of Counties (NACo) provides an overview of NACo's Green Government Initiative, outling the economic, environmental, and social benefits of building with green principles.

The Collaborative for High Performance Schools (CHPS) facilitates the design, construction and operation of high performance schools: environments that are not only energy and resource efficient, but also healthy, comfortable, well lit, and containing the amenities for a quality education. The CHPS Project List provides an at-a-glance view of school districts from across the country that are building high performance schools using the CHPS Criteria.

The U.S. EPA offers the podcast on green streets, "From Gray Funnels to Green Sponges," featuring an interview with Clark Wilson, Senior Urban Planner, Smart Growth Program, EPA, who discusses an alternative to the way streets have been built in the past -- Green Streets -- and how they're used for stormwater management.

This nationally vetted and easy-to-read guidebook describes the characteristics and benefits of high-performance school buildings and details the process to help school planners ask the right questions of their design professionals to ensure the best school design possible.

"It is time really to turn the tide on global warming," said New York Democratic Governor David Paterson as he rang the bell at the New York Mercantile Exchange on September 25, opening the nation's first carbon dioxide (CO2) auction, held by 10 Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states under their 2003-rooted Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), which makes it mandatory for more than 200 fossil-fuel power plants to keep their emissions at the current annual level of 188 million tons through 2014 and to cut them by 10 percent in the next four years.

Four days before the September 30 deadline for a gubernatorial signature on Democratic Senator Darrell Steinberg's historic bill (SB 275) to cut California greenhouse gas emissions by fostering urban density, transit use and smart growth, its fate was "up in the air," reported Sacramento Bee writer Tony Bizjak, with Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger saying he loves "that idea" in principle, but must look at the bill "very carefully" to be sure "it is written the right way."

As the top proponent of commuter rail rather than a freeway to ease long-term Honolulu area traffic, first-term Mayor Mufi Hannemann unexpectedly fell "a hair short" of a straight majority in the September 20 electoral primary, and having won 49.4 percent of the vote is now facing a November 4 reelection runoff against Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi, who won 30 percent of votes, with another rail opponent, smart-growth doubter Panos Prevedouros, getting the remaining 18 percent.

Anticipating dense, walkable, mixed-use communities near transit will hold "the greatest economic advantages" in the years ahead, industry and advocacy panelists at the Governor's Conference on Housing and Community Development in Atlantic City agreed the state must pursue Smart Growth to secure its economy and absorb its share of the country's new 100 million residents by 2035, reports GlobeStreet real estate online news writer Brianne Harrison, with New Jersey Future Executive Director Peter Kasabach concerned that too many municipalities retain outdated zoning, but hopeful that his group's proposed Smart Housing Incentive Act will clear the legislature and encourage the change.

"We need to work together and not have a parochial approach to land use management," said Partners for a Livable Western New York funder and real estate lawyer George Grasser at a Hamburg Town Hall meeting on a prospective independent countywide planning board -- a subject of legislation first proposed by County Legislature Democratic Majority Leader Maria R. Whyte and now in the Energy and Environmental Committee -- urging its creation as necessary to curb sprawl without affecting local autonomy and likely to help the county save some $800 million on infrastructure extension over 25 years.