New Partners for Smart Growth 2011 conference: scholarship available
The 2011 New Partners for Smart Growth Conference: Building Safe, Healthy and Livable Communities will take place February 3-11 in Charlotte, NC. The conference is offering a diversity scholarship and the deadline to apply has been extended until January 10th, or until all funds are allocated.
The Diversity Scholarship Fund was established to help cover registration fees and travel expenses for minority community leaders and groups whose work is primarily focused on equity and environmental justice issues. To apply, please visit the conference web site.
Additionally, please see this brochure with highlights of the conference sessions and other special events that have a strong focus on equity and environmental justice issues. Along with the equitable development track of sessions, the conference organizers have worked to ensure that these issues are covered in other sessions scheduled throughout the 3-day program. A special daylong pre-conference workshop titled “Achieving Equitable Development” is also scheduled for Wednesday, February 2nd.
Contact DEHC at 617-474-1478 if you would like to attend this conference and need assistance with the forms.
Symposium on the Greening of City Hall Plaza
The City of Boston and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be holding a symposium December 9th on the plans to green City Hall Plaza. The City of Boston was one of five capital cities selected to receive special assistance from the EPA’s Greening America’s Capitals program. This event will serve as the first chance to share ideas and collaborate on a vision for a greener City Hall Plaza. The symposium will feature panelists from a variety of backgrounds who will share vision and ideas, and lend their insight into the best steps for the planning and design of a greener Government Center. The symposium will also serve as a chance for the public to ask questions and provide their input in the redesign of City Hall Plaza. The symposium will be held at the Boston Public Library Copley Branch in the Rabb Lecture Hall, from 4-7pm, and is free and open to the public. Please click here to view the invitation.
Fairmount Greenway community meeting, Oct. 6
Come see a presentation of new detailed design options for the FAIRMOUNT GREENWAY planned for Wednesday, October 6th, at 6 PM.
At previous community meetings with the Fairmont CDC Collaborative, local residents determined their preferred routes for the greenway and identified potential locations for development into parks and other open space.
A team from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning is helping to facilitate more detailed design studies of the Fairmont Greenway as it goes through the Dorchester neighborhood.
What will be presented - visions for what certain streets, bike routes, green spaces and intersections might look like. The team would like to hear Dorchester residents’ feedback, ideas and opinions. Please come to this meeting to help further design and plan this Greenway.
Meeting location: 193 Talbot Ave. Click here for meeting flyer.
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For more information contact: Cullen Deas
Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation
Phone: 617-825-4224 x130
Email: CULLEN@CSNDC.COM
In partnership with: Greater Four Corners Action Coalition * University of Massachusetts, Amherst-Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning * Urban Ecology Institute *
