The green marketplace is the marketplace of the future. From Wal-Mart to Toyota to the neighborhood dry cleaner, it seems like every business is going out of its way to tell us how green they are. That could either be a great thing because these businesses are actually using environmentally-friendly practices, or it could be a bad thing because they're just claiming to be green. Regardless of whether it's one or the other, what's certain is that they say they're green because that's what we want to hear.
California
Rethinking Sixty Years of Sprawl
The Planetizen News Brief - 11/12/09
4:28 minutes (4.1 MB)
Planners vs. politics, California's statewide growth strategy and Denver's light rail budget woes-- all on this week's Planetizen News Brief, airing weekly on "Smart City".
Sacramento's Hopeful Catch-22
Caltrans vs. Americans with Disabilities Act
California Environmental Groups Hope to Save State Parks with DMV Fees
Go...East, Young Man?
How Green is Your Neighborhood?
Restoring the San Joaquin
Rethinking California's Irrigation Strategy

Liveblog from the MICD Santa Rosa Technical Assistance Team Session
In early 2008, the Mayors' Institute on City Design received a generous gift from the Edward W. Rose III Family Fund, directed through the National Endowment for the Arts, to support technical assistance teams going into the communities of alumni mayors who have already attended one of our traditional Mayors' Institute sessions. The four cities that we selected for the pilot phase of this work were Santa Rosa, CA, Lincoln, NE, Cincinnati, OH, and Tulsa, OK.






















