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Active Living Resource Center Experts Directory
The Active Living Resource Center website provide answers and resources to help you make walking and bicycling part of your community's healthier lifestyle.
Active Living Resource Center Library
The Active Living Resource Center (ALRC) is an online resource designed to help citizens take charge in their neighborhoods and make them more physically active by making them more bicycle and pedestrian friendly. The ALRC Library provides dozens of resources that support this goal.
Bicyclopedia Estimates Benefits, Costs of Bike Facilities
Bicyclinginfo.org, the pedestrian and bicycle information center, offers two online resources to help assess the costs and benefits of building a new bicycle facility in your town: a Costs-Demands-Benefits analysis, and Bicyclopedia -- tools to help you estimate costs, the demand in terms of new cyclists, and measured economic benefits.
Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework
The Campus Sustainability Assessment Framework (CSAF) examines campus sustainability by looking at the interconnectedness of People and Ecosystems in maintaining the balance of life on this planet.
CDC Livability Listserv
The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) facilitates a Listserv that addresses issues related to health and the built environment. An e-newsletter that includes related news articles, latest studies, and updates on conferences and events related to livability is sent to all subscribers once a month.
Center for Sustainable Communities
Center for Sustainable Communities, part of the National Association of Counties (NACo) website, provides a forum for county officials to work with other government leaders, the private sector, and communities to develop policies and programs that lead to economic enhancement, environmental stewardship and social well being -- the three pillars of sustainable communities.
Chicagoland Transportation and Air Quality Commission
Most transportation decisions are made by regional transportation planning
agencies that have little tradition or mechanism for citizen outreach
or participation. To help balance this process,
CNT convened the Chicagoland Transportation and Air
Quality Commission (CTAQC), a 150-member regional coalition that
promotes compact urban development, the integration of land
use and transportation planning, and citizen participation in
the planning process.
City Practice Resources
When your city is seeking solutions, avoid reinventing the wheel by using the City Practice Resources compiled by the staff of the National League of Cities. Four City Practice Resources are now available: City Practice Online Database, City Practices Briefs, Municipal Action Guides, and the Municipal Reference Service Inquiry Service.
College Sustainability Report Card 2009
GreenReportCard.org is the first website to provide in-depth sustainability profiles for hundreds of colleges in all 50 U.S. States and Canada. Its College Sustainability Report Card is the only independent evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges and universities in the United States and Canada.
Communities of Tomorrow Partnership
Sustainable community development affects our people, our environment, and our economy. Communities of Tomorrow will make Regina, Saskatchewan a world leader in environmental sustainability, community development and technology commercialization.
Community Lots Website
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy offers the Community Lots project, an online resource designed to help community-based organizations (CBOs) move beyond their traditional role of housing development and into the community at large.
Commuting Cost Calculator -- New Jersey
The New Jersey Department of Transportation offers an online commuting cost calculator tool to determine your cost of commuting via car, and the savings that can be realized by biking/walking or carpooling with one to three additional passengers.
Compendium of Sustainability Indicators
Version two of the Compendium of Sustainable Development Indicator Initiatives is now available online. Use this searchable directory to find initiatives based on location, type, issue areas, and more. Search for topics including quality of life,housing, and transporation.
Complete the Streets
Complete streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and bus riders of all ages and abilities are able to safely move along and across a complete street. The Complete the Streets website contains information and resources that you can use to help bring complete streets to your community.
Creating Livable Places
The Creating Livable Places website is provided by the Southern California Association of Governments to promote more livable communities. The site includes ten case studies of regional communities that have made efforts to become livable communities. The site also provides information and resources related to transportation planning, transit, and growth visioning. A calendar of events and list of related links are also available at the site.
Cultures of Cities: A New Online Data Bank
This online data bank gives a panorama of present transformations in European cities. The reports focus on the main themes discussed at the 4th Biennial of Towns and Town Planners in Europe.
Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE)
The Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy (DSIRE) is a
comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and selected
federal incentives that promote renewable energy.
DataPlace™ -- Maps, Charts and Statistics for U.S. Communities
DataPlace™ aims to be a one-stop source for housing and demographic data about your community, your region, and the nation. Build maps, create charts, or compare data on any U.S. location.
Design and Engineering Image Library
The Design and Engineering Image Library, part of the Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center's (PBIC's) Image Library, provides a wealth of images grouped by category that illustrate a broad range of walking and bicycling environments.
Designing and Building Healthy Places
The Centers for Disease Control offers this website on health and the built environment. Topics include children's and elders' health, accessibility, and physical activity.
Energy Tax Incentives Website
The Tax Incentives Assistance Project (TIAP) is designed to give consumers and businesses information they need to make use of the federal income tax incentives for energy efficient products and technologies passed by Congress as part of the Energy Policy Act of 2005.
Enterprise Foundation Database
This database from the Enterprise Foundation offers searchable categories from financing and housing to child care, workforce development, and community building. Visitors can browse by keyword or category.
EquityBlog
EquityBlog is a project of PolicyLink to help nurture and inspire the nation's equity movement. The strong and growing equity community is united in bringing greater opportunity to all Americans, especially those from low-income communities and communities of color.
European Urban Knowledge Network
The European Urban Knowledge Network (EUKN) shares knowledge and experience on tackling urban issues. Fifteen EU Member States, EUROCITIES, the URBACT Programme and the European Commission participate in this European initiative.
FHWA Safe Routes to School
The Federal Highway Administration’s (FHWA) Office of Safety offers a web site dedicated to the new Safe Routes to School Program (SR2S). The web site provides preliminary information about the program passed by Congress in 2005.
Financing Greenways in the Shenandoah
The Environmental Finance Center (EFC) produced this resource guide to provide information about establishing and financing greenways in the Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. The guide includes links to other online resources on the subject of greenways and trails, and is geared to the region's local government officials, nonprofit organizations, and citizen advocates.
Florida Smart Growth Advocates
1000 Friends of Florida has compiled this list of local advocacy groups that are dealing with the impacts of growth on a daily basis. This online resource contains contact information for more than a dozen organizations.
Free Transit, Transportation Images for Educational, Noncommercial Use
Transportation Planet seeks to educate viewers about the importance of balanced transportation in reducing car dependency and improving quality of life by using images of balanced transportation-oriented places.
Great Streets Facilities Plan
This resource from 1000 Friends of New Mexico supports the Albuquerque, New Mexico's Great Streets Facilities Plan as it moves through the current planning phase to adoption by the City Council.
Green and Sustainable Homes
Green And Sustainable Homes is website providing information on how to remodel an existing home, build a green addition, or build a new green home.
Green Buildings for All
The City of Portland, Oregon's Office of Sustainability has developed this ''G/Rated'' website, a depository of green building technologies, case studies, specifications, and other technical resources.
Healthy Growth Calculator
The Sierra Club's Healthy Growth Calculator is an online resource tool that provides a big picture perspective to decisions regarding growth.
Healthy Transportation Network
The Healthy Transportation Network website provides walking and bicycling safety information -- doing it safely, for everyday transportation, and in supportive environments.
LGEAN Coastal Communities
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network (LGEAN) has launched a new Hot Topic addressing the issue of Coastal Communities. This new addition to the Hot Topic section will include information on current news, funding and grant opportunities, publications, and links to relevant Web sites.
New Jersey Smart Growth Success Stories
The State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs has produced a webpage featuring success stories from communities that employ smart growth guidelines.
New Schools Better Neighborhoods: What If
''What If,'' a website and document from New Schools Better Neighborhoods, proposes that schools be designed as the centers of their communities, and allowances made so they can be used for varied events and services.
Nonmotorized Pilot Program
SmartMobility is a website that reports on the Nonmotorized Transportation Pilot Program (NTPP), which introduced a network of nonmotorized transportation infrastructure facilities in four selected communities that connect directly with transit stations, schools, residences, businesses, recreation areas, and other community activity centers.
Online Transportation Demand Management Database
The Online TDM Encyclopedia is the most comprehensive source of information available anywhere in the world concerning innovative management solutions to transport problems. Transportation Demand Management, or TDM, is a general term for strategies that result in more efficient use of transportation resources.
Pathways to Planning
The Vermont Forum on Sprawl has developed, in partnership with the Orton Family Foundation, a sophisticated new online tool that acts as an interactive ''consultant'' to citizens and local planners.
PBIC's Image Library
The Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center (PBIC)
offers a searchable collection of more than 1600 images.
Categories include Walking, Bicycling, Design and Engineering,
and Traffic Calming and Management.
Pedestrian Facilities Reference Guide
Prepared by the National Center for Bicycling and Walking, this resource guide offers online documents to help design and implement pedestrian facilities.
Pennsylvania Launches Website Listing Comprehensive Plans for All Counties in State
The state of Pennsylvania has launched a new website that contains the
comprehensive plans of all counties in the state.
Picture Smart Growth
This site offers examples of how communities throughout the country are trying to achieve smart growth.
Picturing Smart Growth
Cities and towns across the country are embracing smart growth as a better solution to meet the needs of their growing populations. Picturing Smart Growth from the Natural Resources Defense Council offers images of how 70 U.S. communities could apply smart growth principles that accommodate growth and development while saving open space, revitalizing neighborhoods and helping cool the planet.
 Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community Resource List
Planning and Designing the Physically Active Community Resource List contains book, article, and government document citations. The list is arranged by topic, and may be considered a literature review as well as a resource list for the project.
Planum Newsletter: Special Showspace -- Province of Terni Territorial Plan
Planum offers an international window to public bodies
and professionals firms to show their plans, projects and policies.
This newsletter presents the first ''showspace:'' the Province of Terni
(Italy) Territorial Plan (PTCP).
PolicyLink Equity Blog
PolicyLink's EquityBlog is a project to help nurture and inspire the nation's equity movement. The strong and growing equity community is united in bringing greater opportunity to all Americans, especially those from low-income communities and communities of color.
Rails-to-Trails Trail Link
TrailLink.com is a Rails-to-Trails Conservancy Web site dedicated to providing detailed, up-to-date information on trail access, services and activities.
Regional Smart Growth Platform
The Transportation and Land Use Coalition's (TALC's) partnership of more than 90 organizations works to maintain the San Francisco Bay Area's renowned high quality of life, achieve greater social equity, and protect our natural environment.
Regional Visioning Projects
This website features information on the latest trend happening in the state of California and nationwide -- regional visioning and development of alternative scenarios for future growth.
RegionLink
RegionLink is an interactive, online community for regional practitioners. It is hosted by the Alliance for Regional Stewardship (ARS), a national, peer-to-peer network of regional stewards who benefit by sharing experiences and working collaboratively on innovative approaches to common regional challenges.
Safe Routes to School in Your State
The Safe Routes to School website provides a resources-by-state page where visitors can find out about Safe Routes to School (SRTS) activities in any state. Find out about your state's SRTS program, its contacts, success stories, and grant application process.
Safe Routes to School Resources
The National Center for Safe Routes to School provides a comprehensive list of resources for individuals and communities people who want to make walking and bicycling to school safe and appealing for children.
San Jose Smart Growth Housing
This resource from the City of San Jose Smart Growth website offers a map of residential development projects, totaling over 20,000 units, which have been approved or built (since 1990) in close proximity to existing or planned transit opportunities in the City of San Jose.
''Save Our Countryside'' Program Promotes Responsible Growth Management in Florida's Alachua County
Sustainable Alachua County Inc., a non-profit organization focused on careful community growth, is launching an educational campaign about the county's comprehensive plan.
Smart Growth and Schools Resource List
This resource list from the National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities (NCEF) includes web links, books, journal articles, and other documents examining schools in relation to issues of planning and community development, economic impact, conservation of open spaces, and smart growth vs. sprawl.
Smart Growth Around America
The Smart Growth Around America blog is a ''one-stop source for the latest news from Smart Growth America'' that showcases recent and developing smart growth issues from throughout the United States.
Smart Growth Illustrated
Smart Growth Illustrated, from the U.S. EPA, provides visual examples of smart growth techniques as they have been used in different places. Although every example illustrates several smart growth principles, each was chosen to illustrate one specific principle.
Smart Growth in Maryland
1000 Friends of Maryland promotes smart growth issues in the state of Maryland through its website, which includes legislative updates, action items, and news from across the state.
Smart Growth Tools
PlaceMatters.com offers a dynamic database website as a resource for communities (their professional planners, public agencies, and concerned citizens) to identify tools and processes for better community design and decision making.
Sprawl and Smart Growth
In Contrast: Smart Growth versus Sprawl uses text and photos to illustrate how alternatives to sprawl help build better communities.
State Climate Action Best Practices
According to the U.S. EPA's State Best Practices webpage, states have found that a combination of clean energy policies, developed as a coordinated package, is the most effective approach to addressing climate and clean energy challenges. Typically, states have chosen policies to address clean energy areas like energy efficiency (EE), renewable energy (RE), and clean distributed generation (DG). This page presents a menu of 16 clean energy strategies including guidance, policy maps, and other supporting materials.
Sustainable Albuquerque
Sustainable Albuquerque, a website sponsored by the City of Albuquerque, is designed to inform and help residents make Albuquerque a sustainable city.
Sustainable Community Development Network
A program of Sustainable Pittsburgh, the Sustainable Community Development Network (SCDN) partnered with leading organizations to produce a new series of Sustainable Community Essentials Resource Sheets, and also maintains an interactive web wiki that facilitates continued revision and comments to continuously improve the materials.
SustainLane -- Government Knowledge Database
SustainLane is an open-source knowledge database that speeds discovery, research and networking with more than 75 best practice documents and a secure directory of participating government officials from over 180 cities, counties and states.
TERI Database
TERI is the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) Standing Committee on Environment's central storehouse for tracking and sharing new transportation and environmental research ideas. AASHTO's Center for Environmental Excellence maintains TERI and keeps all content relevant.
The New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center
The New Jersey Bicycle and Pedestrian Resource Center website has been designed for transportation professionals, government officials, activists and the public to provide them access to the information they need regarding bicycle and pedestrian transportation.
The Walking School Bus Information Website
The Walking School Bus has become increasingly popular in the last few years. A walking school bus provides children with a safe and healthy mode of transportation to school.
Toolbox for Local Officials
The Local Government Environmental Assistance Network has provided this toolbox as a resource to assist local government officials in their efforts to protect the environment and public health.
Traffic Calming Resources
The Traffic Calming Library from Institute of Transportation Engineers is a searchable database of reports, articles and other documents related to traffic calming.
Transition Towns Wiki
The Transition Towns Wiki was created for use by all the communities that have adopted the Transition Model for responding positively and creatively to the twin challenges of Peak Oil and Climate Change. This site provides a focal point for all of these towns, villages, cities and localities around the world as they implement their own Transition Initiative.
Transit-Oriented Development Website -- Massachusetts
Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) produces a website featuring links and resources for Transit-Oriented Development (TOD).
Transportation Facts for Your State
The Surface Transportation Policy Project (STTP) analyzes federal transportation data and how it affects our quality of life. STTP has created a web page based on its library of statistics that presents transportation facts organized by state.
TravelMatters Emissions Calculator
The TravelMatters Emissions Calculator is an online tool to measure how much greenhouse gas is created by transportation activities. Calculators are available for both individuals and transit planners.
Walk Score
Walk Score keeps getting better, and it was already very good. With assistance from the Rockefeller Foundation, the locational rating system has now incorporated transit service data from 40 metro regions into its service, so that its maps reflect this key measure of urbanity. In the past, this had been one of the few large deficiencies in the system, which rates the ''walkability'' of any given address in the country, as measured by its proximity to a range of neighborhood assets like parks, schools, and shops.
The service is working on incorporating the transit data into its scoring system, so that locations with better transit access will receive higher scores
It is extremely encouraging that Walk Score is fast becoming a staple of the real estate industry, with the system helpfully supplying a ''real estate tile'' that can be incorporated into sellers' websites. Read more at switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/kbenfield/walk_score_is_helping_homebuye.html.
Walkable Urbanism Series
The Brookings Institution's Walkable Urbanism topic offers views from around the country on creating pedestrian-friendly communities, and how the desire for more walkable urban spaces is changing the housing market in America's cities as people seek alternatives to driving.
Walking Images -- Levels of Quality
Walkable Communities offers posters that provide photo examples and ratings for a variety of pedestrian access designs. These images are available online and address several types of pedestrian crossings.
Walking Information
This site includes lists of exemplary bicycle and pedestrian plans, and guidelines for evaluating and improving pedestrian walkways and bicycle routes.
Water Quality and Transportation
The Center for Environmental Excellence by AASHTO (the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials) maintains a Water Quality/Wetlands section on their website that provides brief summaries of federal water quality and wetlands requirements applicable to the transportation community.
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