Date: May 21, 2012
Location: Traverse City Michigan (morning); Petoskey Michigan (afternoon)

Description: Placemaking is a community-based approach to the planning, design and management of spaces that have local and regional importance. The goal is to make communities distinctive, economically viable, accessible, and visually pleasing. These two conferences review the many master plans and regional initiatives in Michigan that are using placemaking as a tool to build community pride and prosperity.

To register: www.smartgrowthamerica.org/2012/04/24/upcoming-summit-to-celebrate-and-inspire-placemaking-in-northern-michigan/

Date: June 7-8, 2012
Location: New York, New York

Description: This two-day conference will address the environmental health aspects of how we live, eat, work, play, and socialize throughout life, and how we can transform our environments to
promote health and prevent disease.

To register: www.healthandenvironment.org/news/conference/intergen2012

Date: June 1, 2012
Location: Chicago, Illinois

Description: Transport Chicago provides a forum on transportation research, policies, and practice. This event regularly attracts academics and professionals from the Chicago region. Areas studied include how to get people in the Chicago area closer to their daily destinations.

To register: www.transportchicago.org

Date: June 20-22, 2012
Location: New Orleans, Louisiana

Description: This conference will explore the strategies and tools that neighborhoods, cities and states are using to turn the challenge of vacant land and buildings into a foundation on which to build the future.

To register: www.communityprogress.net/2012-reclaiming-vacant-properties-conference-pages-167.php

Date: May 22-23, 2012
Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma

Description: Brownfields are properties that have lost value due to real or perceived environmental contamination. Brownfields funds are available to evaluate and clean up those properties so they can be put back into use in the community. At this annual conference you’ll hear from industry leaders about the economic, social, and environmental impact of brownfields redevelopment.

To register: http://register.wciconferences.org/ehome/OklahomaBrownfields2012/55835/?&

Date: October 14-16, 2012
Location: Kalamazoo, Michigan

Description: Join the nation’s leading land bank advocates, practitioners and public policy experts to learn how communities are using land banks to empower their neighborhoods, gain control of vacant properties and repurpose land to build stronger, more vibrant towns and cities.

Registration Information:
http://www.communityprogress.net/national-2012-conferences-pages-119.php?id=260

Date: March 15-17, 2012
Location: Seattle, Washington

Description: CNU Cascadia’s annual regional summit is the premier venue for cross-disciplinary conversations that inform development, policy and design of communities in the Pacific Northwest. The Summit will explore what a sustainable, diverse, resilient community should look like. An additional session titled “A Low-Carbon Neighborhoods Micro-Charrette,” will be also held.

Registration Information:
http://www.cnu.org/cnu-salons/2012/02/cnu-cascadia-hosts-envisioning-resilent-communities-summit

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