The Albany Roundtable will be hosting Jeff Speck, city planner, architect and author, as the featured speaker at the Annual Meeting on Wednesday, May 22, 2013. On May 23, 2013, a two hour workshop titled“Walkability 101- 999: Everything You Need to Know […]
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Jim Kunstler in Schenectady, Friday May 10 at CNU Summit
Come to the CNU Regional Summit in Schenectady this weekend! Friday night at The Stockade Inn, Jim Kunstler, author of The Geography of Nowhere and The Long Emergency will speak. The cost of attending Friday night is $20. More […]
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NYS Transcentral Update May 1, 2013
Every week, Panel of Business Interests member Sam Schwartz Engineering shares with Empire State Future’s readers updates on New York City, State and National transportation issues. Featured Obama Nominates Foxx to Lead Transportation Department The Washington Post New York Transit, […]
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Proposed Genesee County high tech park a poster child for lo…
STAMP will be on an approximately 1,300-acre “greenfield” site in the Town of Alabama, Genesee County. Photo: The Rochesterian (04/09/2013) At Empire State Future we carry the torch of “location efficiency” because New York’s success demands that the economic, environmental, […]
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Cleaner Greener Regional Sustainability Plans are smart tool…
The Cleaner Greener Communities (CGG) planning efforts, run through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and launched late last year with $10 million in funds, are nearing completion. All ten regions have completed regional greenhouse gas […]
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Hinging on Hamlets (our blog)
by Evan Lowenstein The word “hamlet” likely paints a picture for you of a small, cozy collection of tidy older houses and buildings at a country crossroads. Indeed, we are blessed with many such hamlets across New York State. Yet […]
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TOD Line Winter 2013 Edition: Barclays Center, Yonkers, Lon…
(January 20, 2013) Hot off the press, the second fully packed issue of the only Transit-Oritened development newsletter in New York State! TOD LineTM is developed by Land Use Law Center at Pace Law School. The newsletter has been made […]
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Jazzing up Smart Growth at the New Partners Conference
For the 12th straight year, smart growth, planning, public health, and government officials came together to make connections and learn from each other on how sustainable community and economic development is being propelled at the local, state and federal-level. Kansas […]
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REGISTER for the 2nd Annual NYSTEA Conference!
Registration is now open for NYSTEA’s 2013 Transportation Equity conference! Join us again for as we work to build the transportation equity movement in New York. Your work last year led to $4.4B for transit statewide – an increase after years of decline. […]
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Getting Centered
When we say we are “centered,” we’re expressing feelings of health, balance and well being. Throughout the course of human settlement, central places have been essential to the health of the entire community and its individuals. Thomas Jefferson extolled the […]
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