Sustainability imperatives, the call for climate action, and the pressure for new approaches in almost every urban system have North American cities scrambling to manage the shift toward ecological practices and greater resilience.
To provide solutions to these challenges, three organizations – the Center for Urban Innovation, Smart Growth BC,and the Canadian Society of Ecological Economics (CANSEE) combined forces to co-host Resilient Cities: Urban Strategies for Transition Times. The conference was held in Vancouver in October 2009.
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Maryland Planning Secretary Richard E. Hall, AICP, discusses the Sustainable Communities Act of 2010 outside State Center in Baltimore, a proposed transit-oriented development site.
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Take the quiz and see if you can tell how many housing units per acre each of the sites pictured here. This was part of a presentation by Dan Zack, Downtown Development Coordinator of Redwood City to members of Alliance for a Livable Palo Alto.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Palo-Alto-CA/Alliance-for-a-Livable-Palo-Alto/134359477842
http://alivablepaloalto.community.officelive.com/default.aspx
Full presentation is at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVmfLhZUVgM
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The Patrick-Murray Administration announced a commitment of $42.5 million in state assistance to construct a new east-west parkway through SouthField, an award-winning, smart-growth community on the 1,400 acre site of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station. The construction of the parkway is vital to the redevelopment of the base into a thriving model of smart-growth development and will bring significant relief to regional traffic ills.
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The exceptional Seville Rows the newest homes in the Villebois Village Center in Wilsonville, Oregon boast all of the conveniences buyers are looking for in a new home. Featuring floor plans with up to three bedrooms and three and a half bathrooms, ranging from 2,005 to 2,500 square feet, the homes offer gourmet kitchens, dining nooks, gas fireplaces, soaring ceilings, bonus rooms and two-car garages.
Visit Villebois.com or call 866-580-2836 to learn more about the Villebois Village Center.
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After hearing three hours of public input from 30 presenters and reaction from an over-flow crowd of 150 residents of Salmon Arm on August 27th, the city councillors and Mayor unanimously defeated a motion to amend the city’s Official Community Plan to include guidelines for developing a ten acre former high school site in the downtown core that would have allowed a ‘big box’ retail outlet, fast food outlets and gas bars with little green space or residential housing. Concern for lack of input of Smart Growth ideas, affordable housing and long range planning were voiced.
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I’m sixteen and I have to do a long term community service project next year for school that "shows growth and development from beginning to end". I’m thinking about raising a guide dog, and also starting a guide dog puppy raising group in my city. The association I was thinking about doing it through is the South Eastern Guide Dog Association, where puppies stay with their raisers for 14-20 months. I have a few questions, (and some are slightly stupid i know), but please try to answer all of them if you can.
1) Can I take the guide dog to school with me a couple times a week once it’s a little older and trained well enough to behave?
2) Can I take the guide dog to a restaurant? What about a supermarket?
3) Can I take the dog to the movie theater?
4) I live in Florida, where it’s hot hot hot most of the year. Of these breeds, which would shed the least in my climate? Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever (yellow and black), Australian Shepherd, Smooth Coat Collie, or Goldador (mix between golden and lab).
5) Which of the dogs listed above is the smartest/ most trainable?
6) Which of the dogs listed above would you personally recommend?
7) For past guide dog puppy raisers, do you have any tips for me? Also, what exactly are the expectations of a puppy raiser? What types of things would i have to teach it? Are raisers usually allowed to pick out which breed they want to raise and/or gender?
I have a shitzu currently, so i know how to raise a stubborn puppy. 
Thanks so much! I really, really feel inspired to do this. Not so much because I get to take care of a shedding, mess making bundle of joy, but because I really sympathize with blind people, and would do anything to help make their lives easier. (And i love animals too, so it’s really like two pluses.)
Really, you should be asking this of the program you want to work with. Each program has their own policies and each state has its own laws regarding trainer’s rights.
1) Can I take the guide dog to school with me a couple times a week once it’s a little older and trained well enough to behave?
Only with permission from both the guide dog program and the school
2) Can I take the guide dog to a restaurant? What about a supermarket?
Generally, no and if yes, then only with permission from both the program and the facility you wish to visit. Guide dog puppies usually make their visits to stores during group outings with a trainer supervising. Most states do not have public access rights even for fully qualified trainers, much less puppy raisers. Only fully trained guide and service dogs are actually covered under the ADA, and then only when accompanied by their disabled owner.
3) Can I take the dog to the movie theater?
Same as above, but taking a puppy to a movie theater isn’t a good idea anyway. Would you be willing to leave in the middle of the movie if the pup acts up?
4) I live in Florida, where it’s hot hot hot most of the year. Of these breeds, which would shed the least in my climate? Golden Retriever, Labrador Retriever (yellow and black), Australian Shepherd, Smooth Coat Collie, or Goldador (mix between golden and lab).
You are very unlikely to be given any choice in what breed you raise.
Also, what exactly are the expectations of a puppy raiser? What types of things would i have to teach it?
You housebreak and teach basic house manners (not jumping on people, walking nicely on a leash, sit, down, come, etc.) One of the most important jobs of a puppy raiser is socialization (having the puppy meet as many different people and other animals as possible).
The Patrick-Murray Administration announced a commitment of $42.5 million in state assistance to construct a new east-west parkway through SouthField, an award-winning, smart-growth community on the 1,400 acre site of the former South Weymouth Naval Air Station. The construction of the parkway is vital to the redevelopment of the base into a thriving model of smart-growth development and will bring significant relief to regional traffic ills.
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My eleven year old son went on a court ordered christmas vacation with his father into another state. (La) His father not for the first time has called Social Services claiming that I abuse our child and is now refuseing to return our son. This isn’t the first time he has done this but the kids and I just moved to another county and this county isn’t used to the father’s repeated false claims and is allowing the father to keep the child in another state where our son is not in school (can’t be put in due to his living here) is not being givin his asthma inhalers (his father don’t believe that he is asthmatic, our son also has a slight curve in his spine that when in a growth srurt can worsen and we are supposed to get him to Dr. if anything looks or sounds wrong and my son is saying that it feels like a pinched nerve in his back (again father believes nothing wrong) and won’t get it checked out. I have tried to talk to the social worker assigned to the case and to me it seems like he’s on a power trip and won’t even take my calls or call me back. I finally called his supervisor and so he was made to call me back and all he would say was that just because the father told me he wasn’t going to take him to the Dr. that didn’t mean it was true and I needed to stay out of it. I may not be a perfect mother but I DON’T abuse my children!!!! I have been a Girl Scout leader, a Boy Scout leader, a soccer coach, a flag football assistance coach, the community vice president for the Marshfield JayCees, I volunteer at my childrens schools, I am the only one to ever go to any of my son’s parent teacher confrences, my eleven year old is my youngest child, I also have an 16 yr. old and a 21 yr. old. Even my daughter and other son have said that none of it’s true, but with this social worker I feel like no matter what I do or say or have done in the past for all my kids it will never be good enough. Any helpful non smart alec answers would be gratefully appreciated. My children are my life. And the father does this type of thing when he is told no by me , this time it’s because I won’t let him claim our son every year on taxes and I won’t let him have our son every x-mas instead of every other year as was ordered.
Our son is very broken up about this whole thing, our son and I are very close and he wants to come home, his father tells him bad things about me and it hurts him to no end. Our son loves his father very much and I do encourage the relationship with his father, but it’s getting harder to do that and this time he even convinced our son to lie to authorities in his quest to keep him and our son now feels even more horrible knowing that he did it and no one will listen to him tell the truth. Not to mention the father has only allowed our child and I to talk only twice since this all started and my son and I talk every day when he is gone. This is doing major damage to all of us, but especially our son. I have tried talking to the father but he won’t give.
HIRE A LAWYER NOW!!!!!!! I know how them people work. I went through that whole thing with my daughters dad and he kept her from me for 2 months and I finally got tired of it all and hired a lawyer a very good lawyer and he took my court papers that i had from going to court with my daughters dad showing that I had custody and they were not allowed to keep my daughter away from me without proving it. They are not allowed to keep your child for more then 24 hours if they can’t prove you are unfit. I would hire a lawyer right now… And if you have custody of your son, you can call the police and make a kidnapping charges against your son’s father. I should know, I have went through this problem with my daughter. And it happen once and only once. He tried to pull it again a few times but he always lost because I had hired a lawyer the first time and had proven I was a fit mother.
From the Spring 2009 colloquium on land use planning and SB 375 at sponsored by the Institute for Urban and Regional Development at UC Berkeley, the Center for a Sustainable California produced a video highlighting the speakers and challenges from these lectures.
This video was produced by:
Gary Binger
Ashley Tindall
Troy Reinhalter
Christian Eggleton
Contact: ceggleton@berkeley.edu
http://sustainablecalifornia.berkeley.edu
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