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To help communities share ideas and tools for confronting local environmental challenges, NALGEP has compiled this database of succesful local projects in the areas of air quality, brownfields revitalization, transportation choice, smart growth, and water quality. Feel free to browse or search the database to come up with innovative ideas for your community. If you have an innovative project that you would like to have included in this database or highlighted in a NALGEP publication, please email us at nalgep@spiegelmcd.com or call us at 202-638-6254.
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Lancaster County Saves a Community Asset
Mary Gattis-Schell, a Senior Planner with the Economic Development Planning Division of the Lancaster County Planning Commission (LCPC). One of Mary's first projects when she arrived at LCPC in 2000 was to revitalize the 3.5 acre Roberto Clemente Park, in the heart of downtown Lancaster. |
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Lancaster County Saves a Community Asset
Mary Gattis-Schell, a Senior Planner with the Economic Development Planning Division of the Lancaster County Planning Commission (LCPC). One of Mary's first projects when she arrived at LCPC in 2000 was to revitalize the 3.5 acre Roberto Clemente Park, in the heart of downtown Lancaster. |
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Member Profile: From Gas Station to Open Space
In Kansas City, a former gas station at 2600 E. 28th Street is being transformed into open space that honors the history of the surrounding neighborhood and salutes Satchel Paige, one of the best pitchers in professional baseball history. |
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NALGEP Member Profile: Montgomery County is National Leader in Wind Energy
Renewable wind energy sources are producing 5% of the electricity used by the County, which is the largest wind power purchase from a local government in the Mid-Atlantic Region. |
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Bikestation® Long Beach
The first Bikestation® in the U.S. was created in Long Beach, California. The idea for Bikestation® comes from Europe, where special bike parking areas near major transit hubs can store large numbers of bicycles, making bike/transit commuting more convenient. |
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Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group
In Silicon Valley, business leaders recognize that quality of life matters when you are striving to attract and retain a talented workforce, as well as generate a vibrant economy. The Silicon Valley Manufacturing Group (SVMG), first profiled for its efforts in the 1999 Profiles of Business Leadership on Smart Growth, has continued to campaign vigorously on behalf of quality of life issues including regional growth challenges. |
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ShoreBank Corporation
Once known throughout Chicago for fine boutiques, the South Shore neighborhood fell victim to steady disinvestment during the 1960s. A symptom of the area’s economic decline was the South Shore Bank, which was floundering in the face of tremendous economic and demographic changes. |
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Sierra Business Council
Rural communities have a unique challenge: implementing smart growth strategies while embracing new business opportunities, sustaining jobs, and planning for an increasing rate of growth. In the rural areas of eastern California and western Nevada, the Sierra Business Council is helping small communities meet this challenge. |
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New Tools Emerge From Partnership
Oakland has led the way in USTfield redevelopment through its Urban Land Redevelopment (ULR) Program. ULR is a collaborative effort by the City of Oakland and the principal agencies charged with enforcing environmental regulations in the city to facilitate the cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated properties. |
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DEQ Fills Up the USTField Toolbox
The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) is working with Multnomah, Baker, Umatilla, Jackson, and Lane counties to identify prospective sites where UST contamination is impeding local redevelopment efforts. |
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