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06/23/2015

From a joint USGBC California/USGBC letter to Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León and Senator Mark Leno, co-authors of Senate Bill 350...As far as we know, SB 350 is not specifically named for the 350 ppm atmospheric carbon level goal of a livable planet (we are currently at 403.7 ppm[i]), bu…

03/19/2015

Innovative Public Art Festival - Market Street Prototyping Festival is coming to San Francisco in a few weeks. Check out this article from Next City for more information.

It’s getting trippy on Market Street

01/31/2015

Check out 'Inclusive Decision Making' a fresh article published @ USGBC California.

A vibrant and engaged community is more likely to be safer, healthier, resilient, more economically sustainable and economically robust. Civic input has a profound impact on the policies that drive ...

09/17/2014

Interesting read!

A global commission challenges the widespread belief that efforts to reduce global warming would carry a steep price.

09/04/2014

Changing how pedestrians and cars interact doesn't always need new lights and street design. These communities have done it a more simple way.

08/28/2014

The National League of Cities announces the formation of a network composed of business, policy leaders and city officials to identify the regulatory challenges posed by the disruptive technologies that power the sharing economy.

The Sharing Economy Advisory Network will create and promote model solutions that can be adopted by communities across the nation as they work to resolve these questions. The Network will also look to identify ways that cities can support and encourage the growth of new businesses in this space.

A new Sharing Economy Advisory Network hopes to develop best practices so cities can work develop regulations that allow sharing economy businesses to expand and operate more easily.

08/26/2014

The USGBC-NCC Sustainable Neighborhoods Advocacy Committee is using StreetMix to help community members visualize road diets and pedestrian friendly streets in San Jose. This is a great tool and highly recommended!

A new interactive platform is letting city planners drag and drop sidewalks, parking lanes and buildings onto plans in real-time -- all with the click of a mouse.

08/20/2014

Good public participation is anything but formulaic. However, certain well-developed equations can do a great deal to help better define the complicated nature of relationships among motivation, community planning, and civic action.

08/19/2014

The new issue of USGBC+ features USGBC California. Apparently, we're winning... http://plus.usgbc.org/out-front-out-west/

08/15/2014

People in dense cities are thinner and have healthier hearts than people in sprawling subdivisions. New research says the secret is in the patterns of the streets.

08/14/2014

New Stanford research shows that bivalves can cleanse streams, rivers and lakes of potentially harmful chemicals that treatment plants can't fully remove.