Date: April 1-4, 2012

Location: Baltimore, Maryland

Description: More than 1,000 people are expected to attend the 2012 National Main Streets Conference, sponsored by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The conference will focus on developing downtown areas through historic preservation, as well as green strategies to help recruit, retain, strengthen, support and showcase local businesses.

Learn more: http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/training/conference/2012baltimore/

April 14-16, 2011
College Park and Silver Spring, Maryland

Suburban planners are grappling with how to handle pressures to adapt to demographic shifts, changing housing preferences, and growing infrastructure costs - all while making their communities more sustainable. Silver Spring, an inner-ring suburb in Montgomery County, Maryland, has been recently rejuvenated with the guidance of an innovative county zoning code. This code will be the centerpiece of a suburban redevelopment conference titled Makeover Montgomery: Innovative Strategies for Rethinking America’s Suburb, sponsored by National Center for Smart Growth Research and Education, the Montgomery County Planning Department and the Urban Studies and Planning Program at the University of Maryland.

Learn more:
http://www.montgomeryplanning.org/events/rethink2011/

Tuesday, March 1, 2011 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM EST

American Rivers presents a March 1st webcast on climate change adaptation planning. The webcast will examine how Maryland and Oregon plan to reduce vulnerability to climate change in a budget constrained environment. The states will discuss how they developed their adaptation plans and how they are prioritizing strategies for implementation. This event will build on recent EPA webcasts that have focused on the process of identifying climate change vulnerabilities and beginning planning efforts.

http://www.americanrivers.org/newsroom/blog/preparing-states-for-changing-climate-2-4-2011.html

Eastern Shore Land Conservancy’s (ESLC) 12th annual planning conference will carry forward the conversation begun at the 11th annual conference – About Town – at which national and local leaders discussed both process and product in walkable town design and planning. Vibrant Towns will be an opportunity for the region’s leaders and residents to contribute to an emerging definition of “vibrant, sustainable, well-defined” Eastern Shore towns. To facilitate and fertilize this conversation, local officials, community leaders, consultants, planners, designers and citizens will come together with national an regional leaders in sustainable local economies, community development and design to share best practices, success stories, tools and models of vibrant small towns.

For more information, visit: http://www.eslc.org/

Event Date:
March 20, 2011
Time:

Location:
Marriott Inn and Conference Center, College Park, MD

Description:
Colleges and universities are uniquely positioned to serve as living laboratories for sustainability. The Smart and Sustainable Campuses Conference is a comprehensive symposium that features sessions and workshops on smart growth and sustainable practices that serve the economy, the community, and the environment. This year’s theme, Connecting the Classroom® to the Campus® to the Community, emphasizes the importance of the relationship between the physical space of campus buildings and infrastructure, curriculum, culture, capital, and community.

More Information:
http://www.nacubo.org/Distance_Learning/Virtual_Event_-_Smart_and_Sustainable_Campuses_Conference.html