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Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending December 31, 2006, Margaret N. Rees

Anti-littering Programs

• Don’t Trash Nevada roll-out event held on October 12, 2006.

• Program website launched.

• 74 people have taken the on-line anti-litter and dumping pledge.

• Public-private partnership with Republic Services of Southern Nevada generated $11,917.97 in donations to Don’t Trash Nevada.

• Conducted 3 volunteer and 1 alternative workforce clean-ups this quarter.

• Fulfilled deliverable of 12 clean-ups for 2006 (9 volunteer / 3 alternative workforce).

• 16 volunteer clean-ups scheduled for 2007. • Two tons of agency-generated paper recycled this quarter, saving 14,000 gallons of water, 34 trees, and almost 8 cubic yards of landfill space.

• …

Interview With Ron Hays, Eagle Creek Natural Building, 2006 (Audio), Ron Hays

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Interview of Ron Hays by Joe Arbow at SE Portland, Oregon on December 8th, 2006.

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College Of Engineering Senior Design Competition Fall 2006, University Of Nevada, Las Vegas

Fred and Harriet Cox Senior Design Competition Projects

Part of every UNLV engineering student’s academic experience, the senior design project stimulates engineering innovation and entrepreneurship. Each student in their senior year chooses, plans, designs and prototypes a product in this required element of the curriculum. A capstone to the student’s educational career, the senior design project encourages the student to use everything learned in the engineering program to create a practical, real world solution to an engineering challenge.

The senior design competition helps to focus the senior students in increasing the quality and potential for commercial application for their design projects. Judges from local industry evaluate the projects …

Interview With Dan Lajoie, Departure: Architecture Planning, 2006 (Audio), Dan Lajoie

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Interview of Dan Lajoie by Tirsa Firncrook in SE Portland, Oregon on December 4th, 2006.

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Interview With Steven Edward Koch, Koch Landscape Architecture, 2006, Steven Edward Koch

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Interview of Steven Edward Koch by Robyn Russnogle on December 4th, 2006.

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Interview With Carol Mayer-Reed, Mayer/Reed, 2006 (Audio), Carol Mayer-Reed

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Interview of Carol Mayer-Reed by Robyn Russnogle at on December 1st, 2006.

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Interview With Greg Sawyer, Providence Builders, 2006 (Audio), Greg Sawyer

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Interview of Greg Sawyer by Amy Evangelista in NE Portland, Oregon on December 1st, 2006.

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Interview With Yianni Doulis, Yianni Doulis Architecture, 2006 (Audio), Yianni Doulis

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Interview of Yianni Doulis by Daniel Woodward in NW Portland, Oregon on December 1st, 2006.

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Interview With Alisa Kane, Office Of Sustainable Development, 2006 (Audio), Alisa Kane

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Interview of Alisa Kane by Daniel Woodward at City of Portland Office of Sustainable Development, Oregon on November 30th, 2006.

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Interview With Michael Zilis, Walker Macy, 2006 (Audio), Michael Zilis

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Interview of Michael Zilis by Gerald Bones at Portland, Oregon on November 29th, 2006.

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Interview With Jessica Green, Macdonald Environmental Planning, 2006 (Audio), Jessica Green

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Interview of Jessica Green by Cory Angell in SW Portland, Oregon on November 29th, 2006.

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Interview With Christopher Weaver, Plm, 2006 (Audio), Christopher Weaver

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Interview of Christopher Weaver by Gerald Bones at Hillsboro, Oregon on November 29th, 2006.

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Interview With Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell, Macdonald Environmental, 2006 (Audio), Laurel Macdonald-Bonnell

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Interview of Laurel McDonald by Chloe Collins at MacDonald Environmental Planning on November 29th, 2006.

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Interview With Dell M. Turner, Green Roofing Contractor, 2006 (Audio), Dell M. Turner

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Interview of Dell M. Turner by Padraic Keene at Portland State University on November 28th, 2006.

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Interview With Brian Croak, Croak Creations, 2006 (Audio), Brian Croak

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Interview of Brian Croak by Chloe Collins on November 28th, 2006.

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Interview With Chelsea Cochran, Walker Macy, 2006 (Audio), Chelsea Cochran

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Interview of Chelsea Cochran by Cory Angell at Walker Macy, Portland Oregon on November 27th, 2006.

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Interview With Jason Desanto, Our United Villages, 2006 (Audio), Jason Desanto

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Interview of Jason DeSanto by Joe Arbow in Portland, Oregon on November 16th, 2006.

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Policy Tools For Smart Growth In New England, New England Environmental Finance Center

Smart Growth

Across New England communities have been experiencing a rapid outward surge of development away from our community and downtown centers. Effects of sprawl include a loss of wildlife habitat, farm and timber lands; increased costs of community services and higher taxes; auto-dependency, longer commutes, and increased congestion; increases in air and water pollution; a sedentary lifestyle and increased obesity; and losses to one’s sense of place and social ties.

State-level responses to sprawl have surfaced throughout New England in recent years. This report describes 11 examples of these responses, representing all six New England states and a diversity of recent …

Towards A New Taxation System For Motor Vehicles, Theodoros Zachariadis

Theodoros Zachariadis

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A New Vision For New Orleans And The Mississippi Delta: Applying Ecological Economics And Ecological Engineering, Robert Costanza, John W. Day, William J. Mitsch

Institute for Sustainable Solutions Publications and Presentations

The restoration of New Orleans and the rest of the Mississippi delta after Hurricane Katrina can become another disaster waiting to happen, or it can become a model of sustainable development. Sea level is rising, precipitation patterns are changing, hurricane intensity is increasing, energy costs are predicted to soar, and the city is continuing to sink. Most of New Orleans is currently from 0.6 to 5 m (2?15 feet) below sea level. The conventional approach of simply rebuilding the levees and the city behind them will only delay the inevitable. If New Orleans, and the delta in which it is …

State Of Yorktown Beach 2006, Donna A. Milligan, C. Scott Hardaway Jr., Kevin O'Brien, Christine A. Wilcox

Reports

The Yorktown Public Beach is located on the south side of the York River at Yorktown,Virginia (Figure 1). Recently, it has undergone dramatic transformation with the construction of floating piers, upscale restaurants and shops, parking garage, and additional shore management structures. The main recreational beach is now about 1,600 feet in length. A new section of beach and breakwaters is located upstream of the main recreational shore; this project area is 1,500 ft long which includes property owned by the Waterman’s Museum. The middle section of the shoreline downriver of the Route 17 Coleman Bridge, where the floating piers are …

Take Pride In America In Southern Nevada: Quarterly Progress Report, Period Ending September 30, 2006, Margaret N. Rees

Anti-littering Programs

• Team members have been meeting regularly with other interagency teams to plan for the upcoming messaging campaign roll-out event, set for October 12, 2006.

• The Interagency Anti-Litter Team recycled over a ton of paper this quarter.

• A task order modification request was completed, submitted, and approved this quarter. The request will make more funds available for the messaging campaign.

• A multi-pronged media buy for the messaging campaign has been planned this quarter and will be initiated in October.

• The Anti-Litter Team worked with the Nevada Division of Forestry to complete Phase Two of a clean-up …

Recent Global Warming: A New Approach To Interpreting Some Of The Data, Stanley Schleifer, Nazrul I. Khandaker, Samuel Borenstein, Che-Tsao Huang, Thakur Chaturgan, Feng Chan Liang, Mario Jo-Ramirez, Dorean J. Flores, Poonraj Persaud, Selwyn N. Lebourne

Publications and Research

The authors have done an analysis of meteorological data which may add to the growing body of information addressing the cause or causes of recent global warming. If an augmented greenhouse effect, due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, has been a significant factor producing global warming, then this should be indicated by an increase in the interval of time between the time of maximum insolation, and the time of maximum surface temperature, as well as a decrease in the interval of time between the time of minimum insolation and the time of minimum surface temperature, in the mid latitudes. …

A Rough Guide To Interdisciplinarity: Graduate Student Perspectives, Jessica K. Graybill, Sarah Dooling, Vivek Shandas, John Withey, Adrienne I. Greve, Gregory L. Simon

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A widely held belief is that only through interdisciplinarity can academics effectively address today's complex ecological problems, because these problems demand cross-disciplinary efforts and specialized knowledge from natural and social scientists. Innovative interdisciplinary research and curricula have been created to train a new generation of scientists to engage with complex issues. It seems critical that those most affected by interdisciplinary education—doctoral students—provide feedback about such innovations. Without understanding students' experiences in interdisciplinary programs, faculty will not know whether they are "getting it right" for future generations of interdisciplinarians. From our experiences as doctoral students, we provide reflections and perspectives on …

The Growing Together Guide: A Companion Resource To The New England Environmental Finance Center/Melissa Paly Film, New England Environmental Finance Center

Smart Growth

What local leader or public official wants to be faced with an SOS the “same old story” of public discord and confrontation over growth and development in one’s community? That situation has become a problem for efforts to promote smart growth. Investments are needed in the walkable, compact, traditional‐streetscape and mixed use neighborhoods and developments that are more sustainable and healthy than sprawl, for both people and the landscape. Yet attempts at such change all too often end up mired in costly public controversy and stalemate.

Interview With Ted Morris, Dayton Meat Company, 2006 (Audio), Ted Morris

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Interview of Ted Morris by Matt Witke on August 17th, 2006.

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Interview With Oscar Lozano, Dayton Meat Company, 2006 (Audio), Oscar Lozano

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Interview of Oscar Lozano by Brad Schuler on August 14th, 2006.

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Interview With Ed Mays, Endura Wood Products, 2006 (Audio), Ed Mays

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Interview of Ed Mays by Damon Quint in Portland, Oregon on August 11th, 2006.

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Interview With Janet Corbett, Warm Springs Forest Products, 2006 (Audio), Janet Corbett

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Interview of Janet Corbett by Margie Crawford at Warm Springs, Oregon on August 10th, 2006.

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Interview With Marc Gaudin, The Joinery, 2006 (Audio), Marc Gaudin

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Interview of Marc Gaudin by Amber Kinter at The Joinery, Portland, Oregon on August 8th, 2006.

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