http://www.cnt.org/news Sustainable Communities. Attainable Results. Wed, 10 Apr 2013 16:54:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Home Values Perform Better Near Public Transit During Recession TOD News | April 9, 2013 Study Shows Homes by Transit Hold Value Metro Jacksonville | April 2, 2013 'The Just Right Home': A blueprint for buying a house Chicago Tribune | April 5, 2013 http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/04/05/cnt-press-mentions-april-2013/ 35 Facts for CNT’s 35 Years: Each week we’ll expand on one fun fact. Enjoy! #4 Solar Greenhouses Growing tomatoes in a hydroponic greenhouse on a rooftop in West Garfield Park. It was audacious—and caught the attention of the New York Times, resulting in CNT’s first national press story (NYT subscription required). Christian ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/04/03/celebrating-35-years-solar-greenhouses/ One of the strongest arguments in favor of investment in public transit is the role it plays in mitigating traffic congestion. The logic is simple: more train and bus commuters mean fewer car commuters and fewer cars on the road. A recently released working paper from University of California scholar ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/04/01/more-transit-means-less-traffic/ In a recent post, we highlighted a report that shows how energy efficiency upgrades in multifamily buildings could save building owners and residents up to $3.4 billion annually. Despite this, the multifamily building sector represents a mostly untapped opportunity for energy efficiency gains amongst traditional utility-run programs. One reason for this ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/27/energy-efficiency-matchmaking-part-2-utility-industry-we-have-a-multifamily-roadmap-for-you/ 35 Facts for CNT’s 35 Years: Each week we’ll expand on one fun fact. Enjoy! #3 Deep Tunnel Maybe we were just ahead of our time. In the late 1970s, the early days of CNT, we had the radical notion that multiple, smaller investments in infrastructure were better than a gargantuan, one-size-fits-all ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/27/celebrating-35-years-deep-tunnel/ Residential real estate sales prices for properties located near transit are healthier and more resilient than in the broader metropolitan region. That’s the conclusion of The New Real Estate Mantra: Location Near Public Transportation, written by CNT and commissioned by the American Public Transportation Association (APTA) and the National Association ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/22/proof-that-housing-near-transit-is-a-good-investment/ 35 Facts for CNT’s 35 Years: Each week we’ll expand on one fun fact. Enjoy! #2 The Neighborhood Works They were the days of disco. Saturday Night Fever was #1 at the box office. The BeeGees had two of Billboard’s Top 10 singles. Jimmy Carter, while not so “disco,” was president. ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/20/celebrating-35-years-the-neighborhood-works/ CNT Climate Change Program Director, Jen McGraw, spent three days last week looking at the human dimensions of resilient and sustainable cities at the Garrison Institute’s Climate, Cities and Behavior Symposium. The invite-only conference, held at a former monastery on the Hudson River in New York, dug into the concept of ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/19/cnt-considers-city-resilience-at-the-climate-cities-and-behavior-symposium/ Large apartment buildings represent a significant and mostly untapped opportunity for energy efficiency gains according to a bevy of reports out by researchers in the field. Traditional utility-run energy efficiency programs tend to focus on single family homes or commercial office buildings, leaving multifamily buildings across the United States wasting ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/15/energy-efficiency-matchmaking-part-1-large-apartment-building-meet-your-energy-utility/ 35 Facts for CNT’s 35 Years: Each week we’ll expand on one fun fact. Enjoy! #1 Scott Bernstein – Champion of Cities Scott Bernstein started working in Chicago’s West Garfield Park neighborhood in the ‘70s and envisioned innovative strategies that could turn around this community. In 1978, he, along with Stan ... http://www.cnt.org/news/2013/03/13/celebrating-35-years-of-building-sustainable-communities/