GCBL blogs
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Marc LefkowitzMar 15 2010 - 12:12pm0 comments
HUD officials were in town last week explaining how Greater Cleveland could tap into a $150 million Sustainable Communities Initiative for walkable, affordable, green and transit-accessible development at a regional scale. But does the program’s requirement that metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) receive the funds put Northeast Ohio behind the proverbial 8-ball?Unless the feds decide to change the rules, the only shot we would have is NOACA, the region’s transportation MPO. That didn’t sit well with city of Cleveland officials, who note that the region and NOACA in particular have a dismal track record coordinating regional land-use and transportation planning.
“Sustainability in regional plans…
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Brad ChaseMar 3 2010 - 10:35am0 Comments
In order to achieve significant reductions in CO2, as a region we need to focus collective energy on three main areas – the transportation sector, energy generation sector and building sector. These 3 areas account for most of Northeast Ohio’s carbon footprint.
What should we do?
To build a more sustainable society, we need to foster consensus on goals and think strategically about the best ways to make progress. You can help by joining the GreenCityBlueLake discussion groups that are developing action agendas for building, energy, food, transportation, and the other areas of sustainability. The discussions take place on "wiki" pages to allow group editing and conversations.
David Beach's Twitter Feed
- davidbeachnotes: At CPL lecture by James Howard Kunstler: the long emergency of declining oil and wealth forcing the contraction of American life.
- davidbeachnotes: Reading Marc Lefkowitz's fine summary of Cleveland's re-imagining in Next American City magazine (http://bit.ly/cZ8ulu).
- davidbeachnotes: Cleveland Museum of Natural History field trip yesterday, seeing tundra swans and bald eagles. Wildness in the sky. You have to look up.
- davidbeachnotes: Thinking about climate change as a "threat multiplier" -- increasing security risks and political instability (www.pewclimatesecurity.org).
- davidbeachnotes: Recently snowbound at home, watching the red miracle of an amaryllis emerging into bloom.






