http://www.cnt.org/news Sustainable Communities. Attainable Results. Fri, 12 Mar 2010 22:48:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Transit, the Stimulus and Jobs in California: Three Times the Job at Half the Price Switchboard from NRDC - February 12, 2010 What's More Stimulating - Roads or Rails? KALW News - February 12, 2010 Chicago Program Proves Big Success for Energy Savings Energy Overviews - February 11, 2010 Think-and-Do for Greener Cities ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/03/12/cnt-press-mentions-february-2010/ Do Good and Save Cost: I-Go Car Sharing Expands Market, Social Impact Mission Measurement - January 29, 2010 New Report Links Homeowners' Auto Dependence with Foreclosure Risk Streetsblog - January 28, 2010 The Link Between Sprawl and Mortgage Defaults Reconnecting America - January 28, 2010 To Create Jobs, Build Public Transit, Not Highways ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/03/12/cnt-press-mentions-january-2010/ [caption id="attachment_2748" align="alignright" width="250" caption="CNT Research Director, Linda Young, at the Chicago press conference in Union Station."][/caption] March 11th marked Transportation Freedom Day for the Chicago area—the date on which a typical area household has earned enough income to cover its annual transportation costs. In the Chicago region, it takes the ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/03/12/chicago-celebrates-transportation-freedom-day/ Local Leaders Must do more to Save on Transportation Costs Chicago, IL – On Thursday, Chicago residents celebrate Transportation Freedom Day, the date a typical area household has earned enough to cover its annual transportation costs. To mark the occasion, community and transit advocacy groups joined together at Union Station to ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/03/11/today-is-transportation-freedom-day-chicagoans-must-work-over-two-months-to-cover-their-annual-transportation-costs/ [caption id="attachment_2715" align="alignright" width="250" caption=""Chicago’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions 2000", copyright CNT, 2010."][/caption] When CNT set out to inventory Chicago’s greenhouse gas emissions, our goal was to give the Mayor’s Task Force on Climate Change the information it needed to better understand where Chicago’s emissions come from and to establish a baseline ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/03/05/beyond-the-inventory-communicating-greenhouse-gas-reduction-strategies/ CNT lost a cherished colleague and co-conspirator for the Common Good, Jan Metzger, who died after a two year battle with cancer on February 22, 2010. Jan joined CNT in 1995, bringing to CNT her smarts, community activism, and ability to make change from the local to the national levels. Jan ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/03/03/remembering-jan-metzger/ The Illinois Rain Garden Initiative grant program provides funds for the construction of a rain garden on public property. A rain garden is a depression, often near a downspout, that is planted with native wetland or aquatic vegetation. Rain gardens can be designed to flower throughout the summer and built ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/02/25/state-funding-for-school-rain-gardens-in-illinois/ Yesterday, the Secretary of the U.S. Department of Transportation, Ray LaHood, announced the 51 projects—a mix of highways to boulevards projects, complete streets initiatives, streetcars and light-rail projects, and innovative highway funding—that will receive federal funding from the TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) program, which was funded by $1.5 billion ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/02/18/usdot-moves-forward-on-%e2%80%98multi-modal%e2%80%99-vision/ Through the end of 2009, investments by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in public transportation have created almost twice as many jobs per dollar as investments in highways – and the advantage is growing. The most recent data from states, made available by the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/02/16/the-recovery-act-at-one-year-a-jobs-analysis/ State Jobs Data Show Growing Advantage from Stimulus Investments in Public Transportation WASHINGTON, D.C. — Through the end of 2009, investments by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) in public transportation have created almost twice as many jobs per dollar as investments in highways – and the advantage is ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2010/02/16/the-recovery-act-at-one-year/