[APA-SCP Update] #5: The next season for urban sustainability

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APA-SCP UPDATE #5 -- September 13, 2010

In this issue:
1.) What's new with APA-SCP?
2.) News you might be interested in
3.) Resources and events
4.) How you can help

1.) What's new with APA-SCP?

Now that summer's over, we're gearing up for a new season of promoting a stronger sustainability agenda in the APA and the planning profession:

ENGAGEMENT WITH APA: APA-SCP Committee Chair Daniel Lerch has been appointed to the Sustaining Places Initiative Task Force initiated by APA President Bruce Knight.
ENGAGEMENT WITH YOU: Have you joined our group on LinkedIn.com yet? Sign up now, and take part in the many ongoing conversations there!
STRATEGIZING: Our Operations and Coordinating Committees will be strategizing the next steps for the APA-SCP group as we approach our six-month mark in October. If you would like to help with this, please email us.

2.) News you might be interested in

Selected chapters from the forthcoming book The Post Carbon Reader: Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises are now available for free download. Be sure to check out The Death of Sprawl by sustainability strategist Warren Karlenzig, as well as Smart Decline by planning scholars Deborah Popper and Frank Popper.
Don't overlook last month's issue of Planning magazine. Its focus is on waste, a huge issue that is quickly emerging as a contentious local sustainability topic -- especially regarding ideas like "waste-to-energy."
Planetizen.com has re-released a major article by Congress for the New Urbanism founding member Peter Katz. For the 15th anniversary of this article, Katz has added a postscript that "reveals a glimmer of hope for the planning profession in the U.S."

3.)Resources and events

It's still not too late to register for the ICLEI USA Local Action Summit in Washington, D.C. next week!
ICLEI Canada has recently released Changing Climate, Changing Communities, a new guide and workbook for climate change adaptation at the local level.
The Commission for Environmental Cooperation has released a collection of Best Energy Management Practices in 13 North American Municipalities.
The relatively new Center for Environmental Innovation and Leadership will be holding their first annual conference November 9-10 in Washington, D.C.
The five-month Integrated Community Sustainability Planning course offered by The Natural Step (Canada) has already started, but they've been accepting latecomers -- and, they're exploring for offering the course in the U.S. See the discussion at our LinkedIn site for more info.

4.) How you can help

One of the most important ways you can help the APA-SCP is to join the conversation at our LinkedIn or Facebook sites. There are also plenty of non-virtual ways you can help:

Want to help with research and/or writing for our upcoming initiatives? Tell our Operations Committee!
Have colleagues who are interested in sustainability? Invite them to join our mailing list.
Is your firm or agency a sustainability leader? Ask them to become an APA-SCP sponsor.
Are you speaking at an upcoming conference of your APA Chapter? Include a PowerPoint slide about APA-SCP and help spread the word.

Got another idea? Email us!

- APA-SCP Operations Committee

Newsletter archive:
#4: Sustainability's so hot, even the federal government's on it! (7/19/10)
#3: Operations launch. What's our strategy? (6/14/10)
#2: What is "sustainable planning," anyway? (5/13/10)
#1: Launch Party success! (4/21/10)

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