Posted by Susy Thielen on April 29th, 2008 — in Monadnock Region Coalition, NH Housing Coalitions, Housing News, Smart Growth
Learn how New Hampshire’s changing human ecology is impacting our economic vitality.
See the full length film, “Communities & Consequences,” The Unbalancing of New Hampshire’s Human Ecology, & What We Can Do About It.
Wednesday, May 14, 2008
5:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
Recital Hall, Redfern Arts Center
Keene State College, Keene, NH
5:30 p.m. – 5:55 p.m. - Registration and refreshments
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. - “Communities & Consequences” film.
7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. - Audience questions, answers and discussion session with expert panelists, facilitated by a moderator.
Panelists:
Peter Francese, Demographer, Author
Dick Couch, CEO Hypertherm
Curt Hiebert, CEO, Keene Housing Authority
Katie Cassidy-Sutherland, Architect, Daniel V. Scully Architects
Ryan Owens, Director, Monadnock Conservancy
Moderator: Steve Chase, Director of Environmental Advocacy Program, Antioch Univer., New England
Seating is Limited.
Please RSVP
352-1303 or info@keenechamber.com
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Posted by Susy Thielen on October 14th, 2007 — in Housing News, Smart Growth
By J. FERGUSON
Arizona Daily Sun
Sunday, October 14, 2007
Vice-Mayor Scott Overton may seem like an unlikely advocate for affordable housing.
Since he joined the council last year, the local contractor has repeatedly raised concerns about the creation of a city-run housing land trust, supporting market-driven solutions to the affordable housing crisis.
But Overton says a recent proposal to adopt a set of mandatory energy-efficient building codes will push home prices further out of the grasp of the average homebuyer. Read the rest of this page »
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Posted by Susy Thielen on September 29th, 2007 — in Housing News, Smart Growth
Saturday, September 29, 2007
Elizabeth Farrell
Keene Sentinel Washington Correspondent
WASHINGTON — A N.H. congressman is working to make the financial services industry more green — not with greenbacks, but with green policy.
A House Financial Services Committee task force, headed by Rep. Paul Hodes, D-N.H., and Ed Perlmutter, D-Colo., is drafting legislation that would provide incentives to promote green policy to all of the industries under the committee’s jurisdiction — the banking, securities and insurance industries and much of federal housing. Read the rest of this page »
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