Contents – June 2022

CONTENTS – June 2022

PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT IDEAS FOR SMALL CITIES AND TOWNS…

• “How Do You Map the Character of a City? A New Tool Offers Solutions.” From…The Kinder Institute for Urban Research, 2016.
• “With historic federal investment incoming, regions must collaborate on planning” From Brookings, 3.10.22.
• “So What’s a Small, Rural Town to Do?”…wck.
• “Top 10 planning practices for making things happen in rural and small towns.” Kurt H. Schindler, Michigan State University Extension.10.27.14.
• Index to archived Planning Articles.

CLIMATE CHANGE ACTIVITIES…

• “Climate Change: Global Sea Level” from www.Climate.gov, 4.19.22.
• U.S. Air Quality Index (AQI)…from https://www.airnow.gov/.
• Reminder…Sources and Uses of Energy…from EPA and EIA.
• Bloomberg Carbon Clock,CO2 monthly readings through April 2022.
• Index to archived Climate Change Articles.

SPECIAL FEATURES…

• Profile: Robert K. Merton and the Social Sphere of Sustainability.
• Quintessential Character Town…DeLand FL.
• Podcast [40:56], “A ‘breakthrough’ agenda on climate finance” with Amar Bhattacharya, John Podesta, Zia Khan, and John W. McArthur, Tuesday, 12.21.21. LINK: https://www.brookings.edu/podcast-episode/a-breakthrough-agenda-on-climate-finance/
• Video [1:06:17]: William McDonough presents The Upcycle discussing the implementation of his sustainability ideas birthed in his book Cradle to Cradle. LINK: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5f9blN-6jg
• Index to archived Special Features.

BOOKS…

• 13 books and reports on science, impacts, solutions, and actors, here are some recent works sure to address a wide range of climate change related goings-on –the good, the bad and the ugly, by Michael Svobodamay, From Yale’s Climate Connections,5.25.22. LINK:https://yaleclimateconnections.org/2022/05/13-books-and-reports-on-science-impacts-solutions-and-actors/
• Social Entrepreneurship for the 21st Century: Innovation Across the Nonprofit, Private, and Public Sectors, Georgia Levenson Keohane, The MacGraw-Hill Companies, 2013.
• Index to archived Book Summaries.