Presents summaries of energy saving initiatives across five cities as a result of Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds and provides an update on the federal bipartisan effort supporting the continuation of this important program.
An innovative energy finance strategy, the Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program, was unexpectedly suspended following an objection by the Federal Housing Finance Agency. This article outlines the importance of this program to local communities and steps NLC has taken in response.
In a hearing before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment, Kansas City, Mo., Councilwoman Jan Marcason discussed the important role of clean water infrastructure investment in creating jobs, protecting the environment and improving the quality of life in cities and towns. Councilwoman Marcason also described Kansas City’s 25-year, $2.5 billion program to improve the city’s water quality.
Guest author Bill Fay of the Energy Efficiency Codes Coalition (EECC) explains the importance of building codes for local governments and details on how cities can participate in the International Code Council final action hearings.
A new NLC report, “Community Wellness: Comprehensive City-School Strategies to Reduce Childhood Obesity,” focuses on lessons learned by cities that, with technical assistance from NLC, sought to develop and implement local wellness strategies to combat childhood obesity.
Vice-Mayor of Cambridge, Mass. and 2010 Chairwoman of NLC’s Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources (EENR) Committee Henrietta Davis shares key messages on the importance of energy efficiency for local government from the 2010 National Symposium on Market Transformation.
A recent report by Butler University Professors Roberto Curci and Robert Mackoy evaluates the integration of immigrant-owned businesses into local economies. Based on face-to-face interviews with 199 Hispanic business enterprises in Indianapolis, the study creates a framework that classifies immigrant-owned businesses as highly-segmented, product-integrated, market-integrated or highly-integrated.
The heads of the three White House Cabinet agencies which founded the federal Livable Communities Initiative addressed the 2010 Congressional City Conference.
Highlights the efforts of four cities using Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds. Examples demonstrate the range of energy saving programs made possible through this program – including residential weatherization, expanded transportation options, lighting upgrades and municipal operations.
To demonstrate the important impact Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant (EECBG) funds have had on local governments’ abilities to implement energy and cost saving programs throughout their communities NLC continues to reach out to cities and towns to request their stories of success and share updates from the U.S. Department of Energy regarding the status of this program.
