Registration Deadline for Pace’s Climate Change, Land Use and Transportation Planning conference

Today is the last day to register for Pace University School of Law’s Nov. 15 conference: Climate Change, Land Use, and Transportation Planning.

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Conference: Climate Change, Land Use, and Transportation Planning

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Dealing With Global Warming and Traffic Congestion Through Land Use Law Reform Climate change is on the mind of many following the convincing reports this year by the International Panel on Climate Change. Several of the most effective strategies for reducing carbon emissions can be carried out through changes in land use laws that create […]

CNU Summit to Focus on Reforming Transportation, Planning Principles

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The Congress for the New Urbanism will meet in Portland, Oregon, in early November for the annual Project for Transportation Reform, a summit to further define emerging policies that embrace entire urban transportation networks, rather than disjointed transportation segments, and that seek to balance modal splits and reduce overall vehicular miles traveled (VMT). Summit attendees […]

Making Climate Change Part of the Local Transpo Debate

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As the leaders of the G-8 meet in L’Aquila, Italy, to discuss how to tackle climate change on the global level, we bring you a report from Streetsblog Network member GreenCityBlueLake about a victory on the local level in Ohio. It shows how advocacy organizations can reframe the debate over transportation spending so that addressing […]

If Climate Experts Wrote New York Transportation Policy…

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As Andrew Cuomo transitions into the governorship, David Paterson just handed him a parting gift: a comprehensive blueprint for how the state can tackle its greenhouse gas emissions. The plan, which has been in development since a Paterson executive order in August 2009, goes into spectacular detail about how the state might reach the ambitious […]