Cultivating Community Gardens
Case Study: Food Policy Councils Sow Seeds For Better Health Oregon’s Portland/Multnomah Food Policy Council (FPC) was developed in 2002 by a…
Cultivating Community Gardens
Case Study: Gardening in the San Diego School District Students at Rosa Parks Elementary School in the San Diego, Calif. can enjoy…
Cultivating Community Gardens
Case Study: Improving Food Security in Del Paso Heights, California The Sacramento neighborhood of Del Paso Heights is an ethnically diverse, low-income…
Cultivating Community Gardens
Local government leaders are in a unique position to promote healthy eating and active living in their communities by supporting community gardens.…
Valuing Downtowns
For decades, sprawl development has contributed to problems that threaten the well-being of our population, such as declining air quality, oil dependency,…
The Missing Metric
With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen pushback against government regulation at all levels; it makes sense to…
Why Build Near Transit?
Transit stops are not just places for riders to get on and off the bus or train. In recent years communities all…
Ten Keys To Walkable/Livable Communities
The following ten items are key indicators (measures) or steps taken to achieve prosperous, walkable, healthy, livable communities. (more…)
Shaping the Tools of Re-Invention
A community’s civic infrastructure is just as important as its physical infrastructure. How we involve the men and women, seniors and children,…
Energy and the Human Environment
Introduction Energy costs are eating up an ever-increasing percentage of the family income today. Home utility bills are doubling and tripling. The…