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Archive for January, 2010

Field Operations Proposes Downtown Cleveland Revamp

Posted in Landscape Architecture, Public Spaces, Urban Revitalization on 01/29/2010 | Leave a Comment »

Fast Company writes about a recent proposal to revitalize downtown Cleveland through a new park. Two Cleveland non-profits, Parkworks and the Downtown Cleveland Alliance, commissioned James Corner Field Operations to create a set of downtown revitalization proposals. Both organization hope to use the proposals to build overwhelming public support for downtown revitalization and, hopefully, gain financial commitments from the city.  Fast Company writes: “If [...]

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ICLEI USA Launches Sustainability Planning Toolkit

Posted in Climate Change, Policy and Regulation, Smart Growth, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Transportation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/29/2010 | Leave a Comment »

ICLEI Local Governments for Sustainability USA recently launched a comprehensive step-by-step toolkit to guide cities and localities through the process of greening their communities. Taking inspiration from New York City’s highly-regarded PlaNYC 2030, the guide was created with the New York Mayor’s Office of Long-term Planning and Sustainability. The toolkit is includes checklists, best practices, templates, and guidelines – detailed how-to’s for local officials. ICLEI USA includes 600 city, [...]

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Federal Stimulus Will Fund Portland’s 250-foot-tall Green Wall

Posted in Green Buildings, Green Roofs, Sustainable Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/28/2010 | 7 Comments »

The west side of the 18-story Edith Green-Wendell Wyatt Federal Building is getting a 250-foot-tall green wall, writes The Washington Post. The western wall is also 150 feet long, making the expanse about “three-quarters the size of an NFL playing field, minus the end zones.” The federal building’s new wall is part of a $135 million remodeling mostly funded [...]

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How to Expand Urban Agriculture

Posted in Agriculture, Gardens, Policy and Regulation, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization, Waste, Water Management on 01/28/2010 | 2 Comments »

The National Building Museum’s well-known “For the Greener Good” series featured a panel on urban agriculture, including Josh Viertel, President, Slow Food USA, Liz Falk, Director and co-Founder, Washington D.C.-based Common Good City Farm, and Steve Cohen, food policy and programs, City of Portland’s Bureau of Planning and Sustainability. The panel was moderated by Allison Arieff, Food and [...]

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California Adopts Mandatory Green Building Codes

Posted in Climate Change, Green Buildings, Policy and Regulation on 01/26/2010 | 2 Comments »

Last week, California adopted the U.S.’s first mandatory green building codes called Calgreen, which are expected to help the state reach its goal of cutting CO2 emissions by a third by 2020. According to The New York Times’ Green Inc. blog, every new building will have to “reduce water usage by 20 percent and recycle 50 percent of its [...]

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American Architecture Awards Feature Landscape, Planning Projects

Posted in Environment, Landscape Architecture, Opportunities, Sustainable Design, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with the European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies and Metropolitan Arts Press recently announced the 64 winners of the 2009 American Architecture Awards recognize. The awards seek to highlight ”distinguished projects designed and built in the United States by leading American and international architecture firms.” One [...]

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The New Green Economy (Part 3): What Is the Role of Education and R&D?

Posted in Climate Change, Education, Environment, Policy and Regulation on 01/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »

This is part three in a three part series on the “New Green Economy” conference held by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.. Part one covers a speech by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson, and part two outlines conversation around the topic of “What [...]

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Californian Urban Parks Are Net Emitters of GHGs

Posted in Climate Change, Landscape Architecture, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Materials, Waste, Water Management on 01/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »

The New York Times’ Dot Earth blog reports on a new study on urban green space from Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union, which contends many urban green spaces emit more greenhouse gases (GHGs) than they absorb. This is due to the high amounts of emissions from lawn irrigation, fertilizer, mowing, and leaf blowing. The [...]

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NEA City Design Grants

Posted in Opportunities, Urban Design, Urban Revitalization on 01/26/2010 | Leave a Comment »

National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Chairman Rocco Landesman announced a new grant program during the annual meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors (USCM). The NEA’s Mayors’ Institute on City Design (MICD) will offer up to 15 grants ranging from $25,000 to $250,000 to “ transform communities through the arts and smart design.” Chairman Landesman said, “Artists are entrepreneurs, [...]

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The New Green Economy (Part 2): What Does a Sustainable Economy Look Like?

Posted in Environment, Policy and Regulation, Renewable Energy on 01/21/2010 | 1 Comment »

This is part two in a three part series on the “New Green Economy” conference held by the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) at the Ronald Reagan International Trade Center in Washington, D.C.. Part one covers a speech by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson. In a session today, “Growing the Green Economy or [...]

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