Feature Story:

It's Time to Bring the Green Movement Back to the Neighborhood

by Fred Kent

Another Earth Day has come and gone, and in following this year’s events I thought back to 1970, when I was coordinator of New York City's first Earth Day celebration.

It was a time of high ambitions about what the dawning ecology movement could accomplish. Those of us organizing events in New York and other cities around the country were excited about environmentalism as a way to preserve nature and curtail pollution but also to launch a powerful citizen's movement that would create what we now call "livable" and "sustainable" communities. When founding Project for Public Space several years later, I envisioned the organization as a part of the broad sweep of environmental consciousness that was changing the face of America and the world.

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Earth Day Excerpts from the Great Neighborhood Book:

Project for Public Spaces' Great Neighborhood Book written by Jay Walljasper, a do-it-yourself guide to Placemaking, is now available as an e-book in celebration of Earth Day!  The book, filled with examples of individuals and communities who have made their neighborhoods lively and sustainable, provides inspiration, resources and know-how to locals who want to create successful places in their own neighborhoods.

For this special Earth Day newsletter, we’re highlighting some of the book’s most inspiring sections on environmentalism and sustainability.  Visit the PPS online bookstore for more information or to order the book!

(The Great Neighborhood Book will be available for Kindle, Sony Connect and more in a few weeks!  Check the PPS homepage for details.)

Make the most of new transportation opportunities

After years of pushing all-for-the-auto policies, the government is now serious about supporting alternative ways of getting around