For the Greener Good: Public Lecture Series

For the Greener Good is a public series that affirms the National Building Museum's commitment to environmental sustainability. It calls on experts from diverse backgrounds to investigate links between environmental sustainability and design, public health, energy policy, bioscience, infrastructure, education, and even popular culture.

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Environmental Public Health Tracking

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is currently leading an initiative to build a National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. The National Tracking Network is a web-based system that will bring together data from several systems that look at environmental hazard monitoring, human exposure surveillance and health effects surveillance.

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Low Carbon Urbanism Campaign

Low Carbon Neighborhoods, High-Quality Living is an initiative from the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU) that emphasizes how neighborhoods are one of the best remedies for combating climate change.

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Supporting Healthy Communities through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2009

Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, offers online resources on how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) can support healthy communities.

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HUD, DOT and EPA Announce Interagency Partnership for Sustainable Communities

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have established a new partnership to help American families in all communities –- rural, suburban and urban -- gain better access to affordable housing, more transportation options, and lower transportation costs. This partnership supports better coordination across the three agencies to meet national housing and transportation goals, while also protecting the environment, promoting equitable development, and helping to address the challenges of climate change.

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America's Favorite Farmers Market Contest

American Farmland Trust (AFT) is holding the first-ever America's Favorite Farmers Markets™ contest to raise national awareness about the importance of supporting fresh food from local farms and farmers.

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Housing and Mortgages for People with Disabilities

Housing & Mortgages for People with Disabilities, a guide from Mortgageloan.com, was been created to help individuals living with disabilities, and their family members, in the process of buying a home of their own. Learn about the five important steps in buying a home and about financial assistance programs that are available for those living with disabilities who want to buy a home.

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Growing Power: Developing Community Food Systems

Growing Power, a national nonprofit organization and land trust, transforms communities by supporting people from diverse backgrounds and the environments in which they live through the development of Community Food Systems. These systems provide high-quality, safe, healthy, affordable food for all residents in the community.

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Golden Lands, Golden Opportunity: Preserving Vital Bay Area Lands

Ridges and farms, watersheds and forests in the San Francisco Bay Area provide vital public benefits -- but many are still unprotected. Golden Lands, Golden Opportunity is a landmark report on the region's green infrastructure by hundreds of Bay Area land use leaders that calls for action to fully protect its greenbelt.

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Planning Complete Streets for Aging America

Planning Complete Streets for Aging America from AARP's Policy and Research emphasizes the need for a balanced approach to meeting transportation requirements for all ages.

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LandScope America: Open Space Maps and Data

LandScope America LandScope America, a collaborative project of NatureServe and the National Geographic Society, is a new online resource for the land-protection community and the public. By bringing together maps, data, photos, and stories about America's natural places and open spaces, LandScope America's goal is to inform and inspire conservation of our lands and waters.

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Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit

The Sustaining Rural Places Toolkit, a collaborative effort between the Sierra Business Council and Saving the Sierra, offers information on steps you can take to sustain the land, water, and open space in your community for generations to come.

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Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods

Design for Diversity: Exploring Socially Mixed Neighborhoods offers detailed studies of socially diverse neighborhoods and evidence that such neighborhoods are better off than more homogenous neighborhoods. Author Emily Talen's analysis in this book shows planners and urban designers how their work can support diversity.

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Good Buildings, Better Schools: An Economic Stimulus Opportunity with Long-Term Benefits

Public schools are falling behind in basic repairs and maintenance of buildings and grounds, and are failing to make crucial improvements such as adding science labs, particularly in low-income communities, according to a study by Mary Filardo for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Federal investment to modernize infrastructure would stimulate the struggling economy by creating quality jobs, boost student and teacher morale and alleviate the financial burden of maintenance backlogs from states and school districts, the study concludes.

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Arlington's Smart Growth Journey: Documentary Film

Arlington's Smart Growth Journey is a documentary film that traces the dramatic history of the past half-century of growth and development in Arlington, Virginia.

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Paycheck to Paycheck: Housing Policy Reports Says Stimulus Jobs Don't Pay Enough for Home Ownership

Despite declining home prices, many of the jobs created through the federal stimulus package do not pay enough to afford a home, according to Paycheck to Paycheck: Wages and the Cost of Housing in America. This new study compares housing costs in more than 200 U.S. metropolitan areas with the wages earned by workers in 60 occupations and was released in May 2009 by the Center for Housing Policy, the research affiliate of the National Housing Conference.

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