Join us at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference.
St. Louis Earth Day is a proud cosponsor of the 12th Annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference: Building Safe, Healthy, Equitable and Prosperous Communities, to be held February 7 – 9, 2013 in Kansas City, MO.
REGISTRATION ENDS JANUARY 18TH. Register online today.
By attending this event, participants can expect:
- A multi-disciplinary audience to network with, collaborate, learn and share the most innovative and unique approaches to implementing smart growth principles to help build safer, healthier, more economically viable, transit oriented, and pedestrian friendly communities.
- Over 90 diverse conference plenaries, breakouts, workshops, trainings, local model tours, and new and exciting pre-conference collaborative events including the popular annual half-day equitable development workshop.
- Opportunities to participate before the event in our interactive online town hall forum which allow us to engage in conversation with you about envisioning our sustainable communities, overcoming challenges to implement smart growth, and sharing success stories and best practices to create more sustainable communities!
About the conference.
The origins of this conference can be traced to late 1995 when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency first launched its Smart Growth Program. As part of this effort, the EPA sought to organize a national conference that would focus on environmentally sensitive growth and development.
In December 1997, the EPA, together with the Urban Land Institute, co-sponsored the first “Partners for Smart Growth” conference.
Since the launch of the Smart Growth Program, the basic principles have not changed but the realization of their importance continues to grow as more civic leaders, professionals, and interest groups recognize smart growth as a solution to the challenges in their communities. Thanks to a trail blazed by determined and visionary pioneers, smart growth is now widely and rightfully understood as a necessary, if not sufficient, way of addressing many of the most difficult economic, environmental, and social challenges we face today in communities across the country.
The enduring strength of the New Partners conference comes from the diversity of participants who cross disciplinary lines to share experiences, insights, inspiration, valuable implementation tools and strategies. The 2013 event will continue this exciting trend and welcomes even more new partners who recognize smart growth as a viable solution to the problems they encounter in their professions.
Get connected and register online.
View and download the 2013 Conference Brochure.
To get more details on the conference program, tours, and special events, and to register, visit www.newpartners.org. Also, connect with the conference on Facebook and Twitter @newpartnersconf to get real-time conference news!
