Date: May 3-4, 2012
Location: Los Angeles, California

Description: Pedestrians Count! 2012 promotes pedestrian safety, transit access, healthy environments and sustainable communities coordinating with cutting edge research. The seminar explores latest best practices in pedestrian data collection and analysis with strategic community advocacy. Professionals, academics and community leaders will share their current and most promising work.

Registration Information:
https://californiawalks.org/Peds_Count_2012.html

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: February 16, 2012

Location: Lansing, Michigan

This one-day training program will detail Michigan’s unique approach to Context Sensitive Solutions (CSS) and Complete Streets. Topics covered include how to build a Safe Routes to School team, an overview of walking audits, and how advocates can encourage local governments to make healthier investments in their communities.

Registration Information: http://www.planningmi.org/tb.asp

September 26-30, 2011
National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), Shepherdstown, WV

This introductory course provides participants with a strategic approach for prioritizing conservation opportunities and a planning framework for conservation and development. Participants will learn how the green infrastructure approach can be used to connect environmental, social, and economic health across urban, suburban, and rural settings.

Learn more:
http://www.conservationfund.org/course/strategic_conservation_planning_using_green_infrastructure_approach

This introductory course provides participants with a strategic approach for prioritizing conservation opportunities and a planning framework for conservation and development – integrating the green and the grey. Through hands-on class projects, lectures, and case studies, participants will experience firsthand how the green infrastructure approach can be used to connect environmental, social, and economic health across urban, suburban, and rural settings. Participants will also learn how green infrastructure planning can serve
as a tool to inform land use decisions and build consensus among diverse interests.

The course will take place at the National Conservation Training Center (NCTC), Shepherdstown, WV, April 11-15 2011.

For more information visit:http://www.conservationfund.org/node/239/

Event Date:
Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011

Event Location:
Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland

Event Description:
Design for Sustainability Training of Trainers is an advanced training course based at the Findhorn Ecovillage providing a practical forum for learning and developing skills needed to work effectively with design for sustainability at all levels. It comprises four separate week-long modules, which may be attended as a whole or separately.

More Information:
http://www.findhorn.org/programmes/programme353.php