I had the opportunity to spend a couple of days visiting Kansas City, and checking out what is being done there in its effort to try to become more sustainable. Kansas City has had a sustainability program for a couple of years, and it is starting to put the pieces together. One of the more impressive things about what KC is doing has to do with the metropolitan-wide reach of the effort. KC is a fairly sprawling city. It does have a defined downtown area, but the city itself is pretty large and expansive. Beyond the boundaries of the city proper, the suburbs are pretty sprawling as well. So a lot of what is being done related to sustainability is operating across municipal boundaries. I had the opportunity to have lunch with David Warm, the Executive Director of the Mid-America Regional Council, the metropolitan planning and policy agency. This Council has been integrally involved in KC's climate protection program, and the city's Green Impact Zone initiative.
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September 10, 2010
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Posted by: مدونة | September 30, 2011 at 10:32 AM