Sam Adams, Portland Commissioner, soon to be mayor, site

http://www.commissionersam.com/

Grey to Green Presentation from LID conference posted

Green for All

http://www.greenforall.org/about-us

Green For All is a national organization dedicated to building an inclusive green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty.

By advocating for local, state and federal commitment to job creation, job training, and entrepreneurial opportunities in the emerging green economy – especially for people from disadvantaged communities – Green For All fights both poverty and pollution at the same time.

What Cities Can Expect from an Obama Administration

http://dirt.asla.org/

ASLA site - includes link to policy paper from Obama campaign outlining environmental priorities; From the policy paper: "Barack Obama and Joe Biden will fight to clean brownfields, restore abandoned industrial river fronts, and give communities the tools they need to eat healthy foods, and expand livable, walkable neighborhoods." Obama has signalled that he will create an "Office of Urban Policy".. follow the link to read more

Cost of Urban Stormwater Control

http://rpitt.eng.ua.edu/Class/International%20urban%20water%20systems/Arvind%20Costs%20of%20Urban%20Stormwater%20Control%20Feb%2005%202006%20clean%20copy.htm

2006 report - includes Grass Filter Strips, Grass Swales, Porous Pavement, Infiltration Trenches, Rain Gardens, Biofilters and Bioretention, Green Roofs and Cisterns/ Water Storage for Reuse. There is also a section on Education programs (note: some cost figures are very old - 1987-1989 - others are more current)

Low Impact Development for Public Works Webcast

http://www.apwa.net/events/eventdetail.asp?ID=5162 Thursday Feb. 26, 2009 11-1 Eastern

Part 4 of a 4 part Sustainablity series - part 2 is "Retrofitting Green Design and Standards" (Thursday, Dec 11, 2008) , part 3 is "Green Transportation and Smart Growth" (Thursday January 15, 2009)

Free Webinar - Forestry Watershed Resource Guide

Free Webinar -register through this link -- Dec 2

Sustainable Stormwater Poster - Oregon

http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=207818

6 images of Portland solutions

Mediterranean Climate Street Tree Plan Example

Australian site - quantifies stormwater benefits of trees

Multiple benefits from urban trees

http://www.saveseattlestrees.com/URBAN_FOREST_STAKEHOLDER.html

This post summarizes urban forest values along multiple dimensions - Seattle link

Fall Sustainability Conference

http://www.sesec.org/s_next.htm

This year in Switzerland Nov 11-13 - Sustainable development -
Day 2 looks most interesting as it deals with transportation and sustainablity

Plants for low maintenance situations

http://www.hort.cornell.edu/department/faculty/weston/mixes/descriptions.html

Grasses and Forbes for low maintenance situations; from Cornell

Forest Cover Stormwater Benefit Calculator

http://www.americanforests.org/resources/urbanforests/naturevalue.php

LA Pedestrian Scramble

http://www.streetsblog.org/2008/11/07/streetfilms-the-pedestrian-scramble-returns-to-la/

This is an all-way street crossing at an intersection concept (no right on red!) so there are no vehicle/ped. conflicts. This is a video explaining more/showing it. From this link/video, you should also be able to get to a bike box video.

International Stormwater BMP Database

http://www.bmpdatabase.org/

A clearinghouse website of all things stormwater. Non-structural bmps coming soon.

Athens-Clarke County GA Stormwater ed videos

Four short ed. videos on stormwater from Athens-Clarke County GA


http://www.accstormwater.com/public/082307raindrop.mpg

http://www.accstormwater.com/public/062307jail.mpg

http://www.accstormwater.com/public/511507Day_in_the_Life.mpg


http://www.accstormwater.com/public/082307Little_Girl_in_Rain.mpg