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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.
Active Living Storybank Database
The Active Living Network -- a project of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation -- has recently launched its new Storybank database, archiving more than 100 searchable projects, programs and initiatives around the country promoting health through changes in the built environment, public policy and education.
Alaska Brownfields
The State of Alaska's Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC), Division of Spill Prevention and Response, maintains a webpage on their Contaminated Sites Program that describes DEC's brownfields reuse and redevelopment initiative (RRI).
Brownfields Insurance
BrownfieldsInsurance.org is a website developed with funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to assist those seeking information and assistance with insurance products that mitigate environmental liabilities associated with brownfield properties.
Brownfields Links
The U.S Conference of Mayors website offers a list of brownfields links on its website.
Brownfields Redevelopment -- Lincoln Institute of Land Policy
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy offers a focus on brownfields in the Community Lots section of their website. This focus section is specifically tailored for the needs and concerns of nonprofit community-based organizations (CBOs) that want to undertake brownfield redevelopment.
Brownfields Site Mart -- New Jersey
The Brownfields Site Mart, a web site produced by the State of New Jersey, is designed to make it easier for developers to locate and build on land in cities and towns, while preserving the state's dwindling inventory of open space.
BrownfieldSource.org
BrownfieldSource.org is a comprehensive online resource for brownfields news and information.
California Brownfields Reuse Success Stories
The State of California's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) contains a variety of brownfield-related resources on its website, including a section on successful reuse of certain brownfields within the state.
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.
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.
Climate Change and Health
The National Association of County & City Health Officials (NACCHO) maintains a Climate Change webpage under its Environmental Health programs.
Climate Change and Older Adults
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a web page on Climate Change and Older Adults that provides an overview of world climate change and how it may affect portions of the population.
Climate Change Solutions
The David Suzuki Foundation offers a Solutions page to the Global Warming section of its website -- policy and practice changes that can be made to minimize greenhouse gas emissions.
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.
Colorado Brownfields Resources
The Colorado Brownfields Foundation offers an online library of publications and links from both state and national sources, including case stides from around Colorado that highlight economic, fiscal, environmental, and community impacts of brownfields redevelopment or potential brownfields development projects.
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.
Community Preservation in Action
Community Preservation in Action features articles about completed or planned projects that preserve and enhance quality of life in Massachusetts communities.
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.
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.
Designing and Building Healthy Places
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has organized a section of its website to focus on ''Designing and Building Healthy Places.''
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 Resource Database
The Enterprise Resource Database is an extensive library of community-based resources from the Enterprise Foundation. Database categories include regional and neighborhood planning, housing, community safety, finance, and community building.
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.
''Farming on the Edge'' State Maps Available
''Farming on the Edge: Sprawling Development Threatens America's Best Farmland'' uses the tool of compelling maps to lay out the threats and gives reasoned solutions-so communities, legislators and individuals can clearly see what needs to be done to protect the country's best farmland.
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.
First Stop Shop for Water Resources
The First Stop Shop for Water Resources from the Local Government Commission (LGC) is a clearinghouse for information and resources related to the co-management of land and water resources. This website is dedicated to providing the most relevant, up-to-date, and useful information about water resource management and putting it all in one place that is easy to navigate so you can find what you need when you need it.
Florida Brownfields
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection (FDEP) maintains a website on the state's brownfield program, including information on state and federal initiatives, locations of active projects and designated brownfield areas, and more.
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.
Golf Course Environmental Principles
A group of leading golf and environmental organizations have jointly developed a set of principles that seek to produce environmental excellence in golf course planning and siting, design, construction, maintenance and facility operations.
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.
Green Infrastructure Maps
Natural Connections has produced a website offering a database of Green Infrastructure Maps that covers 14 counties extending out from the greater Chicago region, including the counties bordering the Wisconsin-Illinois and Illinois-Indiana state lines.
Green Infrastructure: A Framework for Smart Growth
This resource introduces the key elements of Green Infrastructure, the network of natural lands, open space, waterways, and smart growth design measures that form the framework for healthy and sustainable communities.
Green Infrastructure: A Strategic Approach to Conservation
Green Infrastructure is our nation's natural life support system -- an interconnected network of protected land and water that supports native species, maintains natural ecological processes, sustains air and water resources and contributes to the health and quality of life for America's communities and people.
Green Squad
An interactive website that outlines steps for reviewing practices in and around schools and their effects on health and the environment. This program is suited for both youth and adults.
Greener by Design
The Natural Resources Defense Council offers an interactive web resource on how to incorporate green design in buildings -- specifically, the work completed on its new office in Santa Monica, California.
GreenInfrastructure.net
GreenInfrastructure.Net seeks to illustrate that identifying and planning for Green Infrastructure - multi-purpose green space networks - provides a framework for smart conservation and smart growth.
Happy Planet Index
The Happy Planet Index is a website that reveals the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered.
Healthy School Environments
The U.S. EPA's Healthy School Environment Resources website offers information and links to school environmental health issues.
Healthy Transportation Network
The Healthy Transportation Network website provides walking and bicycling safety information -- doing it safely, for everyday transportation, and in supportive environments.
Historic Preservation and Sustainability
The National Trust for Historic Preservation has created a webpage that focuses on how historic preservation can help the environment, and is part of the organization's Sustainability Initiative that will demonstrate how older buildings can ''go green.''
Hyperlocavore Website
Hyperlocavore, a ''free yard sharing community,'' is a social network site that wants to see ''healthy kids who love the smell of dirt, blocks with foreclosed homes becoming vibrant neighborhoods, plates full of delicious safe food at costs we can all afford, and neighbors who become real friends.''
Kids and Community
Kids and Community is a website for young people developed by America's city planners. Explore how you create communities, how you live in them, and how you change them.
KnowledgePlex
KnowledgePlex is a comprehensive interactive resource for the affordable housing and community development field. Designed for practitioners, scholars, and policy makers, the website offers practical solutions and innovative ideas, timely news and authoritative information, and collaboration with other housing leaders.
LA Brownfields Program
LA Brownfield Program, the City of Los Angeles' nationally recognized brownfields program, has a web presence that provides details for individuals and groups who would like to redevelop abandoned and underutilized urban properties.
Learning Through Landscapes
Learning through Landscapes helps schools and early years settings make the most of their outdoor spaces for play and learning.
Local Food Glossary
The American Farmland Trust (AFT), a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to protecting our nation's strategic agricultural resources, offers a Local Food Glossary on its website as part of its Growing Local Campaign. Learn to ''talk'' the local food talk with these helpful definitions of words commonly used to describe local and healthy food.
Low Impact Development Urban Design Tools
This site provides watershed managers with a new set of tools and techniques that can be used to meet regulatory and receiving water protection program goals for urban retrofits, re-development projects, and new development sites.
Michigan Brownfields Program
The Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) offers information on Michigan Brownfields Programs on its website.
New Jersey Brownfields Program
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) has organized an array of state brownfields resources on its website. Any former or current commercial or industrial site, currently vacant or underutilized and on which there has been -- or there is suspected to have been -- a discharge of contamination, qualifies as a brownfield.
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.
New York Green Building Database
GreenHomeNYC is collecting detailed profiles of green buildings across New York City. Information about buildings is submitted by owners, developers and managers, who also write the descriptions.
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.
Northeast-Midwest Institute -- Brownfields Resources
The Northeast-Midwest Institute includes a focus on brownfields on its website. The Institute has been at the forefront of brownfield policy development and information dissemination since the early 1990s, when the Institute organized the first brownfields conference in Chicago in 1991 and published the landmark New Life For Old Buildings, the first report to analyze the legal, regulatory, and financial barriers to cleaning up and reusing old industrial sites.
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.
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.
PedNet
PedNet, the internet mailing list on pedestrian issues, is a joint project of Ottawalk and the Willamette Pedestrian Coalition. Participants include pedestrian advocates, planners and professionals from around the world.
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.
Planning for Stormwater: Parking Lots
The University of Connecticut's Planning for Stormwater website includes an overview of paved parking areas and their impact on stormwater runoff. This NEMO (Nonpoint Education for Municipal Officials) website focuses on the site planning concepts presented in Connecticut's Stormwater Quality Manual.
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.
Portland Brownfield Program Sites
The Portland, Oregon Brownfield Program helps the city and its residents recover neighborhood lands by providing technical and financial support to property owners, developers, and community members. The Brownfield Program has created a web page that provides details on various sites within the city that have benefited from the program.
Public Health and the Built Environment
The American Planning Association (APA) has created a talking points webpage on Public Health and the Built Environment. Part of the AIA's Communities by Design program, these talking points provide facts and figures that support the argument for including public health concerns in decisions affecting the built environment.
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.
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 America Social Equity
The most common image of sprawl is usually the farm paved over for a subdivision, but the more insidious images are the blocks and blocks of abandoned neighborhoods scattered throughout urban America. Smart Growth America's Social Equity resources addresses equitable development by examining how divisions by income and race have allowed some areas to prosper while others languish.
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 and Local Greenhouse Gas Emissions
The U.S. EPA maintains a State and Local Emissions section on its ''Climate Change -- Greenhouse Gas Emissions'' website. This section provides information on state greenhouse gas emission inventories, energy-related state carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and resources for developing inventories at the state and local level.
Students and Sustainability
The U.S. EPA created the Students and Sustainability webpage for teachers who wish to introduce the concepts of sustainability into their classrooms and for students who need assistance and guidance in their sustainable research projects.
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 Building Resource Directory
The Sustainable Building Resource Directory is a website-based information resource and searchable database of Green Building and Sustainable Development businesses, organizations, and programs for the mid-Atlantic region.
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.
Sustainable Community Planning
The Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC) has created a Sustainable Community Planning section on its website that provides best practices in design and development, tools for planners and designers, and other research on sustainability.
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 Pedestrian and Bicycle Information Center
PBIC provides communities information and resources to create safe places for bicycling and walking and to promote healthy lifestyles and neighborhoods through increased bicycling and walking.
The Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County
The Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County is a community-based private non-profit located at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. We believe that the land we use today is being borrowed from our children and our children's children. Therefore we are guided by the principle that communities need to make good long-term decisions about where, when and how they should grow. We seek to encourage growth that improves the quality of life for our current residents and businesses, but will also insure vibrant, high quality growth for future generations in Westmoreland County.
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.
Tools for Action: Healthy Kids
Action for Healthy Kids (AFHK) offers a website focused on creating health-promoting schools that support sound nutrition and physical activity as part of a total learning environment.
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.
Treescapes Photos
Treelink.org was created to provide information, research, and networking for people working in urban and community forestry. The TreesLink Treescapes section includes several photo pages of trees in various urban, suburban, and rural settings.
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.
Watershed Plan Builder
The Watershed Plan Builder website from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides information and tools developed by EPA to assist with the development and implementation of effective watershed management plans. It is designed for people who are involved in watershed management activities.
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