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Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program Request for Comment
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is seeking comments on its Sustainable Communities Planning Grant Program. Feedback received through this process will permit HUD and its partners to better understand how this Program can support cooperative regional planning efforts that integrate housing, transportation, environmental impact, and economic development.
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Let's Move: Raising a Healthier Generation of Kids
Join First Lady Michelle Obama, community leaders, teachers, doctors, nurses, moms and dads in a nationwide campaign to tackle the challenge of childhood obesity.
Let's Move! has an ambitious but important goal: to solve the epidemic of childhood obesity within a generation.
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Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food
Sharing powerful stories from his anti-obesity project in Huntington, W. Va., TED Prize winner Jamie Oliver makes the case for an all-out assault on our ignorance of food.
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NEW MATERIALS IN THE SCN! Visit the topic areas of each of these sections for new resources and reading!
- How
to Plan a Sustainable Event Any
event can be successful and sustainable. This downloadable brochure
offers ideas to help you get started.
- Funding Sources Grants and other funding programs for your community.
- About Sustainable Communities New entries plus complete listing of all President's Council on Sustainable Development publications.
- Creating Community
- Building Partnerships
- Civic Engagement
- Community Visioning and Implementation
- Inventories & Indicators
- Justice & Equity
- Protecting Natural Resources
- Air and Climate
- Energy
- Land, Forests, and Ecosystems
- Water
- Living Sustainably
- Education, Training and Lifelong Learning
- Health, Nutrition, and Recreation
- Healthy Home and Property
- Growing a Sustainable Economy
- Agriculture and Food Systems
- Community Economics & Finance
- Manufacturing and Industry
- Small Business
- Governing Sustainably
- Community, Regional, State and Federal Relations
- Waste and Toxics Management
- Smart Growth (Updated weekly)
- The SCN Events Calendar Visit it to learn of upcoming conferences and events.
- Acrobat PDF files of individual SIA case studies; Project summaries with links.
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