Building sustainable communities

Local Initiatives Support Corporation and two nonprofits are launching a new concept in Rhode Island. Through its Sustainable Communities program, LISC will assist the organizations in conducting resident-led planning to ensure buy-in for improvements in targeted neighborhoods.Community development - Rhode Island

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters (CRSCAD) cultivates alliances with local, national, and international agencies, government and academic institutions, NGOs, and for-profit and not-for-profit bodies which share common interests in the area of post-disaster reconstruction globally

Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters: Partnerships in Teaching and Research

CRSCAD assists local, national, and international agencies as well as the victims of disasters to develop practical, sustainable, and long-term solutions to the social, economic, and environmental consequences of disasters. We also host international conferences and workshops at UMass Boston to provide a space for partners to network, exchange ideas, and share best practices

Renewable energy in remote communities

This article is the result of a competitively tendered University-funded project, this brings together two major Government Policy areas: sustainable communities and use of carbon fuels, and is aimed at influencing the policy debate on the difficulties of linking remote communities to renewable energy production because of poor distribution networks. Linkage with the Sustainable Communities agenda is an essential ingredient, as the proposal is that the renewable energy technologies will be installed and maintained by the communities themselves

Building Environmentally Sustainable Communities: A Framework for Inclusivity

Reviews literature on past inequitable and unsustainable urban development and visions for linking sustainability, opportunity, and inclusion. Analyzes possible metrics for measuring sustainability and access as well as next steps for policy

Comments back from the Sustainable Communities Summit Workshop : creating communities with low environmental impact

Based on 'Report back from Sustainable Communities Summit Workshop : creating communities with a low environmental impact'.Publisher PD

Transportation for a New Era -- Growing More Sustainable Communities

Outlines policy recommendations to create a national vision recognizing the links between land use, infrastructure, and sustainable communities; support metropolitan areas; foster more compact development; and invest effectively in transportation

Are you Prepared?, 2010

To support, coordinate and maintain state and local homeland security and emergency anagement activities in order to establish sustainable communities and assure economic opportunities for Iowa and its citizens