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- President Clinton addresses energy efficiency and other economic recovery strategies
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- While in Chicago for the Nobel Peace Prize winners’ summit, President Bill Clinton addressed an audience of business and nonprofit leaders – including me – on domestic economic recovery, including workforce development and energy efficiency initiatives. The conversation will…
All Systems Go: Engineering Sustainable Utility Solutions-
- The complete audio recording of this event is available for listening.
Last week MPC hosted the third event in its infrastructure roundtable series, All Systems Go: Engineering Sustainable Utility Solutions, generously sponsored by ComEd and Peoples Gas. The event featured a top-notch panel: J.…
- Owners, managers of apartment buildings invited to Oct. 14 breakfast to learn about new public resources available to maintain property
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- South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association, partners will explain new resources as well as local efforts to preserve rental homes
The South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA) invites owners and managers of multifamily rental properties to attend a free breakfast, underwritten by…
- Maintaining Rental Housing as a Community Asset Multifamily Rental Property Resource Guide
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- Nov 30, 2010
- The Multifamily Resource Guide – produced by municipal leaders, Preservation Compact, Chicagoland Apartment Association, and partners including MPC offers a list of public and private sector resources including: energy assistance, financing, preservation, tenant relations, and more to assist…
- Creating synergy between energy and development decisions
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- To pump, treat and deliver the 550 billion gallons of water metropolitan Chicago consumes annually, it takes as much energy as it does to drive nearly 4.9 million cars for an entire year.
At an MPC-Openlands roundtable luncheon this past Tuesday, that statistic was one of many that drove home the…
- Michael Webber on the energy-water nexus
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- Metropolitan Planning Council and Openlands hosted a roundtable on Aug. 3, 2010, focused on the connections between energy and water use. This was the second event in our summer series, "Choosing our Water Future," and topics explored included:
* The energy demands of water systems, and the water…
MarySue's Midweek Links-
- Earth Day will join the “Over the Hill” gang tomorrow when it turns 40. Since I’m in that age cohort, I prefer to believe that it’s not all downhill from here; rather, I think Earth Day’s 40th presents an unprecedented opportunity to build a healthy, prosperous, clean…
MarySue's Midweek Links-
- This Saturday I’m speaking at Northwestern University, my alma mater, on “What’s a Green Job Anyway?” As groups gear up for Earth Day including a green transportation summit in Chicago on April 22 – Congress is preparing a making a run at the long-awaited energy and…
- South Suburbs using unique collaborative model to compete for stimulus funds
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- The South Suburban Mayors and Managers Association (SSMMA) works on behalf of 42 municipalities to spur economic investment in Chicago's south suburbs. Recently, SSMMA has been structuring collaborations among multiple communities focused on similar development opporutnities, such as a partnership…
- Sustainable Choices for a Greener Chicago Region
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- In the third event in MPC and Chicago Architecture Foundation's 2009 summer roundtable luncheon series, "Reinventing Public Investment," panelists discuss opportunities to affect change in Washington, D.C. – through federal legislation on climate change mitigation, water infrastructure…
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