Date: June 5-6, 2012
Location: Manhattan, Kansas

Description: Learn the latest and best thinking regarding rural grocery stores and rural community sustainability, discuss rural grocery best practices, network, and dialogue with rural grocery store owners and stakeholders.

Registration Information:
http://www.dce.k-state.edu/conf/ruralgrocery

Date: April 25-27, 2012
Location: New York, New York

Description: Placemaking: Making It Happen is a three day training course focused on how to move ideas into reality by using a place-based management and implementation strategy. This training course will describe the roles that different types of public space management organizations play, complemented by lessons learned from experts with hands on experience implementing improvements and managing public spaces. Also included are site visits to some of the best managed spaces in New York City guided by the people who helped make them happen.

Registration information:
http://www.pps.org/training/making-it-happen/

Date: April 19-20, 2012
Location: New York, New York

Description: A two-day PPS training course, How to Turn a Place Around introduces new ways of thinking about public spaces and how Placemaking can be used to bring communities together and revitalize underperforming spaces.

Registration information:
http://www.pps.org/training/httapa/

Date: March 12, 2012
Location: Washington, DC

Description: In the March installment of the free Smart Growth Speaker Series held at the National Building Museum, Bicky Corman, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) deputy associate administrator for the Office of Policy, discusses proposed recommendations for incorporating sustainability into the EPA’s principles and decision-making, including the agency’s approach to smart growth. EPA wants to hear stakeholder views before deciding if and how to act on the recommendations.

Registration information:
http://www.nbm.org/programs-lectures/march-2012/sustainability-and-the-epa.html

Date: September 10-13, 2012
Location: Long Beach, California

Description: Pro Walk/Pro Bike® is the premier venue for presenting work and meeting peers from the fields of transportation planning, engineering, health, advocacy, public policy, research, and more. For 2012, the conference theme is Pro Walk/Pro Bike: Pro Place. Walking and biking are community-building tools; community is built around place. Throughout the four-day conference, during poster sessions, panel presentations, and plenary sessions, conference participants will be challenged to think of themselves as Placemakers.

Registration information:
http://www.bikewalk.org/conference.php

Date: May 1-2, 2012
Location: Los Angeles, California

Description: Be part of in-depth conversations aimed at maximizing the impact of the smart and active transportation movement in California, and engage state leaders on the urgency of passing key reforms.

Registration information:
http://www.transformca.org/choices2012

Date: October 14-17, 2012
Location: Los Angeles, California

Description: Rail~Volution is a conference for those who want to engage in thoughtful discussion about building livable communities with transit. More than 75 workshops, networking events, charrettes and toolbox sessions bring together some of the best minds on livability in the country and the world.

Registration information:
http://www.railvolution.com

Date: June 20-22, 2012

Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

Description: Conference sessions and activities will explore a wide variety of topics related to the challenges and opportunities presented by foreclosed, abandoned, blighted and other problem properties. The conference will place these ideas in the broader context of the nation’s economic recovery and the future reinvention of America’s cities and towns.

Learn more: http://www.communityprogress.net/national-2012-conferences-pages-119.php