At the
Center for Neighborhood Technology, staff was shuffled around throughout the process.
But they do want to protect the environment." CONTACT: Greenpeace, (800) 326-0959, www.greenpeaceusa.org/media/ factsheets/wetcleanlist.htm;
Center for Neighborhood Technology, (773)278-4800, x299, www.cnt.org.
"In a year, people spend the equivalent of two weeks' vacation time stuck in traffic," says Jackie Grimshaw of Chicago's
Center for Neighborhood Technology. "Kids are spending an inordinate amount of time on the school bus just getting to the closest school.
That's enough to frame a house for each and every one of us, the
Center for Neighborhood Technology reports.
A quarter-century later, Bernstein has become famous in Chicago for attacking many of the same types of problems on a metropolitan scale through his
Center for Neighborhood Technology. He's still mapping problems and analyzing their underlying causes--though now with a paid staff of 20 and an annual budget of about $2 million.
"Now is a good time to start looking at cost-effective ways to offset those fees," says Ryan Wilson, stormwater program manager for the
Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), a self-labeled "think-and-do tank" in Chicago dedicated to sustainability issues.
I-GO, run by the nonprofit
Center for Neighborhood Technology, maintains a fleet of 14 hybrid electric vehicles, which members can borrow for $6 per hour and 50 cents per mile.
The average family's transportation outlay rose 8 percent a year in the '90s to reach $6,200 in 1998, according to a recent report, "Driven to $pend," from the Surface Transportation Policy Project and the
Center for Neighborhood Technology (on the Web at www.transact.org).
Scott Bernstein, from the
Center for Neighborhood Technology, illustrated how his group has translated the "hidden asset" of transit density directly to increased availability of location efficient home mortgages (LEMs) for lower and middle income families in urban areas.
So far, Connections for Community Ownership, a joint project of the
Center for Neighborhood Technology, Chicago United and the Hispanic Housing Development Corp., has signed up six franchise companies and 12 entrepreneur candidates.
Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), Amtrak President George Warrington, Station Foundation President Hank Dittmar, urban designer Charles Zucker of Boulder, Colo., Scott Bernstein of the
Center for Neighborhood Technology, and National Homebuilders Association CEO Tom Downs.