Date: April 9, 2013
Time: 2:00 - 3:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Description: Join EPA’s Smart Growth Program for this webinar on how communities are using equitable development and smart growth strategies to create neighborhoods that are healthy, sustainable, and inclusive. You will hear from two of EPA’s 2012 National Award for Smart Growth Achievement winners, and you’ll get highlights from the agency’s new report, Creating Equitable, Healthy, and Sustainable Communities: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development.

To register: https://epa.connectsolutions.com/epasmartgrowth

Date: April 10 - 12, 2013
Location: Atlanta, Georgia

Description: Conference attendees will network with staff members from local jurisdictions of all sizes that are developing new policies, administrative practices, and management techniques to solve tough problems, rethink traditional processes, or out-perform established approaches. The 2013 conference theme, Cool Communities, will showcase case studies on economic vitality, organization design, community building and partnerships.

To register: http://www.tlgconference.org/

Date: April 13-17, 2013
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Decription: The American Planning Association annual conference brings together thousands of people—practicing planners, citizens, elected officials—committed to making great communities happen. Conference tracks include Community Development and Neighborhoods; Sustainability; Transportation; Urban Design; and Zoning, Codes, and Ordinances.

To register: http://www.planning.org/conference/

Date: April 17, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Description: This EPA webinar will address the challenge of planning for climate change in the face of uncertainty. Through presentations on best practices, case studies, and an interactive panel, experts will discuss how to look at historical information to understand future vulnerability and how to use tools that are appropriate for local governments of various sizes and capacities.

To register: www2.gotomeeting.com/register/587592314

Date: April 17, 2013
Time: 3:00 - 4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Description: As communities work to maintain or restore their vibrancy and sense of place, providing great places to walk and bicycle has been a successful strategy. This webinar, sponsored by the Association of Pedestrian and Bicycle Professionals, will present case studies on how economic vitality can be restored in historic downtowns, big cities and rural communities through improved walk- and bikeability.

To register: www.apbp.org/event/Apr-17_webinar

Date: April 18, 2013
Time: 1:00 - 2:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Description: This webinar highlights the accomplishments of the Common Ground Program, a community gardening and urban agriculture project created in the city of Lawrence, Kansas. Over the past two years the city surveyed its vacant and underutilized properties, identified appropriate sites for agriculture, and made these sites available to citizens for urban gardening through an application process.. Eileen Horn, sustainability coordinator for the city of Lawrence, will describe the project goals, community benefits, lessons learned, funding sources, and partnerships.

To register: http://bit.ly/12lINRm

Date: April 19, 2013
Location: New York, New York

Description: The New York metropolitan region has thrived in recent years even as it has been buffeted by economic and environmental pressures. Yet three urgent challenges — climate change, declining economic opportunity and fiscal uncertainty in the public sector — threaten to derail the region’s continued progress. This conference will examine these pressing problems and shed light on the best strategies to overcome them and ensure the region’s continued success. Included will be sessions on protecting coastal areas, transit systems and power networks.

To register: www.rpa.org/assembly/2013/

Date: April 24-26, 2013
Location: Greenville, South Carolina

Description: This annual event provides peer-to-peer learning for regional transportation planners, state DOT representatives, and their partners. The conference will provide training and networking opportunities on a variety of rural and small metropolitan transportation topics.

To register: http://www.nado.org/events/rpo2013/