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Newsletter #6 — October/November 2010
IN THIS ISSUE:
1.) What's new with APA-SCP?
2.) News you might be interested in
3.) Resources
4.) How you can help |
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The last few months have been full of conferences and new publications, so we're focusing this issue of the APA-SCP newsletter on some great resources you may have missed!
  Want to share your thoughts about a particularly good conference you've attended? Write up a blurb and send it to us, and we'll include it in the next newsletter — or add it to the ongoing conversations at LinkedIn and Facebook.
1.) What's new with APA-SCP?
The American Planning Association recently established the Sustaining Places Initiative Task Force to determine how the ubiquitous comprehensive planning process might be used to meet sustainability goals. An introductory meeting of the Task Force was held September 20th, and a second meeting is being scheduled for late November. If you'd like to know more, contact Daniel Lerch, who represents APA-SCP on the Task Force.
2.) News you might be interested in
3.) Resources
Recent events:
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ICLEI Local Action Summit, 9/24-26 in Washington, DC. Presentations available online.
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ICLEI "Future of Cities" World Congress, 10/5-7 in Incheon, South Korea. Some documentation online.
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Northern New England APA Chapter Conference, 10/7-8 in Portsmouth, NH. Presentations available online.
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European Green Capital Conference, 10/20-22 in Stockholm. Some documentation online.
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EcoDistricts Summit, 10/25-27 in Portland, OR. No resources posted yet, but plenty of articles describing this exciting new concept.
New Publications:
 The Post Carbon Reader
Managing the 21st Century's Sustainability Crises
Watershed Media, October 2010
For a comprehensive, integrated overview of the relationship between the human species and its planetary home circa 2010, look no further. The Post Carbon Reader is an invaluable primer, resource, and textbook. This is what you need to know—period.
—Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute
4.) How you can help
One of the most important ways you can help is to join the conversation at our LinkedIn or Facebook sites. There are also plenty of non-virtual ways you can help:
Got another idea? Email us!
NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE:
#5: The next season for urban sustainability (9/13/10)
#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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