Next Installment of “From the Margins to the Mainstream” Workshop Announced

Over the course of the past year, CNT and the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership have held a series of webinars and workshops aimed at educating transportation advocates, government officials, developers, and citizens on the transportation planning process. These have been part of a larger project whose goal is to improve the quality of public involvement during transportation planning.

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Learning Sustainable Development from a City in Brazil

Chicago architect Carmen Vidal-Hallett and her photojournalist husband Mark Hallett recently released a multimedia study comparing Chicago with a fairly obscure city in South Brazil. Curitiba is a former backwater turned city of 1.5 million, which now rivals Chicago as a center of progressive urbanism. It was for this reason that the husband-and-wife team used their Graham Foundation grant to study the Brazilian city through Mark and Carmen’s photos and analysis.

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March 22 is the 15th Annual Celebration of World Water Day

Established in 1992 by the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, World Water Day aims to raise awareness of the importance of clean water to public health. According to the UN, an estimated 85 percent of global diseases can be attributed to unclean or unsafe water supplies; this disproportionately affects children in developing countries, 5,000 of whom die every day from such causes as parasites and diarrheal diseases that could be prevented by access to safe water.
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Chicago Matters Series Covers Sustainability in 2008

Now in its 18th year, Chicago’s award-winning multimedia public affairs series returns in 2008 with Chicago Matters: Growing Forward, to examine how the choices we make today impact our environment and the future of our region.

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