Accomplishments : Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT)

Accomplishments

I-GO? Car Sharing now has 100 cars & 4,000 members
Community Energy Cooperative reduced its 1,500 members’ energy bills by 10%
Greenmapping.org is now interactive & includes more of the Lake Michigan and Illinois River watersheds

by the U.S. Green Building Council with platinum-certification of our green office building
in the book and PBS series, Edenï¿½s Lost & Found
with a Chicago Innovation Award for the Energy- Smart Pricing Plan (ESPP)

organized the Housing + Transportation forum to discuss how housing & transportation affect overall affordability in the Chicago region
brought smart growth initiatives to Chicago’s south suburbs
developed & implemented Transopoly?, a new planning game which helps participants prioritize transportation

with Reconnecting America, Center for Transit-Oriented Development & The Brookings Institution to present & publish a brief on a new information tool, the Housing + Transportation Affordability Index
with the Center for Housing Policy in studying how working families often spend as much or more on transportation costs than they are saving on housing when they move further from work to afford housing
with the Clinton Climate Initiative & ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability to create greenhouse gas measurement tools for the world’s largest cities

significant diversity-economically and racially-present in transit-served neighborhoods
growing demand for housing near transit now & in 2030
unmet economic potential in parking lots near Cook County Metra stations

2 significant reports on affordability: Paved Over: Surface Parking Lots or Opportunities for Tax-Generating, Sustainable Development? and Preserving and Promoting Diverse Transit-Oriented Neighborhoods
Community Wireless Networks: Cutting Edge Technology for Internet Access, a series a reports following our Wi-Fi projects in three neighborhoods.
Troubled Water, a manual for how to implement green infrastructure improvements