Smart Growth Resource Library: Sustainable Community Development Code -- Beta (Smart Growth Online)
The Rocky Mountain Land Use Institute has released a beta version of the Sustainable Community Development Code , a guidebook that provides extensive resources encompassing the broad scope of sustainable living.
Cobalt takes on shades of green on and off stage (Chicago Sun-Times)
When members of Cobalt & the Hired Guns sat in the audience of the "It's Not Easy Being Green" panel last March at the South by Southwest Music Festival in Austin, Texas, little did they know they'd soon become the main attraction.
Camp details cave rescue (Concord Monitor)
A teenage girl who was trapped in a Vermont cave for several hours was kept company by her instructors and had food, water and warm clothes delivered to her during her ordeal, the director of the Kroka Expeditions wilderness school said Wednesday.
Plethora of festivals sure to entertain all (Rapid City Journal)
You might as well stay close to home this summer. Between downtown Rapid City’s new Summer Nights on Seventh — featuring music, food, arts and family activities every Thursday night from 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. — to a host of area festivals, there’s plenty to keep you, your family and your summer guests entertained. Here are a few events to put on your calendar:
Happenings (The Austin Chronicle)
FOURTH OF JULY CONCERT & FIREWORKS It's your patriotic duty to party, so join the Austin Symphony Orchestra tonight for your yearly dose of pyrotechnics and Howitzer cannon blasts.
Naked City (The Austin Chronicle)
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TV naturalist to attend summer fair (Wiltshire Times)
TV naturalist Chris Packham will be guest of honour at a Trowbridge school's annual summer fair tomorrow.
WCSS urges greenhouse donations (Whistler Question)
Whistler Community Services Society (WCSS) officials are appealing to residents and resort guests to donate their $100 B.C. Climate Action Dividend cheques to the society’s initiative to establish an 80,000-square-foot commercial greenhouse next to the 2010 athletes’ village.
Northern Lights goes green (The Sudbury Star)
Raising a green cup to Greenville, here’s to a greener Northern Lights festival. Sure, a reusable festival cup is one small step, but hey, it could make a difference in the long run. “This is our initiative. It will be reusable for coffee, water, pop and for other [...]
Saco Honored as "Greenest City in Maine" (York County Coast Star)
SACO — The City of Saco has been chosen as an Environmental Hero and designated as the venue for the first Maine Going Green Energy, Building & Living Expo.
