June 2002
Feature Article: Planning Your Career by Warren W. Jones and Natalie Macris northern-news-June-2002
Feature Article: Planning Your Career by Warren W. Jones and Natalie Macris northern-news-June-2002
The tour will run from Saturday, August 18th through Sunday, September 2nd, 2012 – Sixteen Days in total, and include a two week tour of Brazil, integrating meetings and workshops with local urban planners, while experiencing the visual and cultural highlights of the Country. Registration is open until Wednesday, May 16th and includes submittal of
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Join the California Planning Foundation on a spectacular sustainability walking tour of Cavallo Point at the Golden Gate Bridge and historic Sausalito on Friday, May 4 at 9am to help raise funds for planning student scholarships. From military post to a world class destination, Fort Baker has been transformed into a resort focusing on local
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Join us for the 2012 APA California Northern Section Awards Celebration. Sip…Eat…Cheer…Celebrate the winning projects, programs, and people at the 2012 Awards Dinner. Friday, May 11. 6:30 PM Click here to RSVP View the Event Flyer
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Reviving Investment in Transportation and Infrastructure in America watch?v=sUtS52lqL5w&feature=g-logo-xit The Northern Section was well represented at the annual APA L’Enfant Lecture on City Planning and Design held in San Francisco this year. In attendance were Board Director Hanson Hom, and Board members, Justin Meek, Naphtali Knox, and Scott Davidson, and Sustainability Committee co-chair, Scott Edmondson.
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Are you interested in a 1-hour, web-based introduction to strategic sustainability planning? If so, the Natural Step Network USA will hold a free, 1-hr, introductory webinar (1CM) on December 6, from 4-5 pm (PST). Sign up (scroll to bottom of page). Introduction to The Natural Step Network This 1-hour general orientation is a concise overview of
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Embedding Sustainability into the Culture of Municipal Government Details/register: FREE Webinar) Start: Nov 3 2011 – 1:00pm End: Nov 3 2011 – 2:00pm Timezone: Canada/Eastern A culture of sustainability is one in which organizational members hold shared assumptions and beliefs about what sustainability means for their organization, where they are in relation to that, and
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STARS (Sustainable Transportation Analysis & Rating System) does more than simply “green up” our current transportation system.As a transportation planning professional, learn how to meaningfully improve the environmental, economic, and social performance of transportation projects and plans.Join this co-hosted workshop between APA California Northern Sustainability Committee and the North American Sustainable Transportation Council. Go HERE
Ask, Geoff Andersen, president and CEO of Smart Growth America. The program saves communities and the federal government millions and billions of dollars and creates local jobs at a very high ROI! Hard to beat it, yet the House of Representatives voted to eliminate its funding! The vote in the senate is up tomorrow (091911).
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A recent review of a session at the APA California Conference (“Translating Sustainability into Practice: Tools for Measuring Community Sustainability”) seems to argue that that a robust understanding of sustainability is not possible, that measurement is unnecessary, and that neither is needed because an effective response can be found in traditional planning as usual. Even
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