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 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: May 1, 2013
Time: 1:30 - 2:30 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Description: This EPA webinar will focus on how communities can secure funding for adaptation to climate change. The presentations will provide examples of how communities of various sizes have attracted funding and will provide resources for participants to identify appropriate funds. The experts who present on this webcast will discuss how to maximize funding by mainstreaming adaptation planning and how to address adaptation and mitigation simultaneously.

To register: www2.gotomeeting.com/register/869045530

Date: May 15, 2013
Time: 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. EST (repeated at 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.)

Description: This webinar from Penn State Extension will help planners, elected officials, and concerned citizens come together to make better land use decisions using Smart Growth principles. Planning tools and resources available to decision-makers will be discussed, as well as how to engage in planning to benefit your community.

To register: http://events.r20.constantcontact.com/register/event?oeidk=a07e6wdzo9p9bbe05fe&llr=njlitjfab

Date: May 16, 2013
Time: 3:00 – 4:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time

Description: Pocket neighborhoods can engender a sense of belonging and care among neighbors, making them the building blocks of resilient communities. In this webinar, key practices will be shared for introducing small-scale neighborhoods to infill locations.

To register: http://www.placemakers.com/webinars/pocket-neighborhoods-design-counts-a-lot/