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Interview: EPA's Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments |
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The U.S. EPA recently released its Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments. GreenBuilingLawBlog.com sat down with Karen Bandhauer, an Environmental Scientist at EPA Region 4 who helped develop the toolkit, to speak to her about this new resource.
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Podcast: Randall Reid, Chair of the ICMA Sustainability Advisory Committee |
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International City/County Management Association (ICMA) member and Sustainability Advisory Committee Chair Randall Reid talks about ICMA's work on the issue of sustainability and the role of local government managers in building sustainable communities.
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Improving a City's Self Esteem to Create a Better Quality of Life |
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During his three-year term, Mayor Peñalosa of Bogotá, Colómbia implemented profound changes which transformed the capital and changed the attitude of its 7 million inhabitants. He massively improved slums, built formidable schools and nurseries, beautiful libraries and hundreds of parks and other pedestrian spaces. He was a leading innovator in America in creating a bicycle path network, restricting car use and radically improving pedestrian facilities, building more than a hundred kilometres of pedestrian streets and greenways. Inspired by the Curitiba model, he created the TransMilenio bus transit system which has been a role model to many cities. As a result, Enrique Peñalosa has become an international star of sorts among green urban designers. Yet, he arrived at these ideas from a completely different direction. “My focus has always been social—how you can help the most people for the greater public good.”
To read the NY Times Magazine Interview click here or to view the interview click here.
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Ocean City, NJ: Signing Climate Pledge Jumpstarts Sustainability Journey |
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When Ocean City Mayor, Sal Perillo signed the US Conference of Mayors Climate Pledge in 2006 and newly in office, the message was loud and clear: the environment was now a city wide priority.From purchasing hybrid cars for the City's fleet to enacting LEED standards for all municipal buildings, Business Administrator, Jim Rutala sheds some light on the process.
Interview: Jim Rutala
Ocean City Business Administrator
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