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Connecticut Energy Summit - Legislative Office Building, Hartford. June 5,
10 am.
This second day of the two-day summit will focus on renewable energy, clean
energy, and energy efficiency. State regulators, public officials, power
company executives, gasoline retailers and petroleum industry representatives
were invited to the two-day forum, geared toward educating policymakers and
encouraging short- and long-term solutions to CT's power woes. More
Finding a Better Way to Fund Public Education -
West Hartford Town Hall, June 8, 7 pm.
Responding to the rising challenges of paying for public education
in West Hartford and across the state, the
Citizens Network of the
Capital Region will host an interactive
community conversation on the finding a better way to pay for our
schools.
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Connecticut Green Building Council dinner
- Hawthorne Inn, Berlin. June 8, 5:30 pm. Featuring a
discussion of
the Storrs Center
development project - a sustainable "redesigned" town center.
Speakers from the Mansfield Downtown Partnership and LeylandAlliance
will discuss sustainability guidelines for the town, master plan for
the new Storrs Center, and coordinating with multiple entities to
get project support.
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The Great Warming -
Trinity College's Cinestudio, June 17, 1
pm.
"It's more than just the heat." This film, narrated by Alanis
Morissette and Keanu Reeves, reveals how a changing
climate is affecting the lives of people around the
globe and showcases initiatives aimed at reversing
the trends. The free screening includes a
panel discussion with the producer.
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An Inconvenient
Truth -
Showing:
Hartford Crown
City Cinema, June 16; Orange, June 16; Waterbury Holiday Florin,
June 30.
Al Gore’s critically-acclaimed new film “An
Inconvenient Truth” offers the best opportunity to capture the
immediate attention of all Americans and move this country forward
quickly to stop global warming.
The film
got
standing ovations during its world
premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, and Roger Friedman, the
movie critic for Fox News said: "Not to be missed. It doesn't matter
whether you're a Republican or Democrat, liberal or conservative...
your mind will be changed in a nanosecond."
Movie trailer;
About the film. |
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Funding |
AT&T Excelerator Grant Program - Deadline:
July 5, 2006
The AT&T Excelerator competitive technology grants program helps nonprofits
fully integrate technology into their ongoing operations and community
outreach. AT&T Excelerator grants also help nonprofit organizations put
technology tools into the hands of the underserved populations they work with,
providing resources such as Internet access, computer training, math and
reading programs, and job-skills development.
Applicants
must be 501(c)(3)s that emphasize education, community development, health and
human services, or arts and culture. Grant funds may be used for data
communications services, hardware, software, technology training, personnel,
and application development. At least 50% of the grant must be used to
target underserved populations, including racial and ethnic groups, low-income
populations, seniors, or disabled persons.
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Lincoln Institute Fellowships on Land Value Taxation
- Deadline: August 15.
The Lincoln Institute of Land Policy invites
applications for David C. Lincoln Fellowships, a program to develop
academic and professional interest in land value taxation through
support for major research projects. Projects may address either the
basic theory of land value taxation or its application to specific
issues, domestic or international. Research funding for each
approved project will be between $20,000 and $40,000 per year.
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Sustainable
Development |
APA Publishes Model Smart Growth Codes
As part
of an EPA-funded research initiative on smart land development regulations, the
American Planning Association has drafted 11 model smart growth codes. The model
codes are local ordinances and regulations that further such smart growth
objectives as encouraging mixed uses, preserving open space and environmentally
sensitive areas, fostering a variety of housing types and transportation modes,
and reforming the development review.
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Public Policy |
A Coming Attraction: Reforming Property Taxes in
the Region
The
May edition of the Regional Plan Association notes that
"despite the vitriol of partisan politics, this year’s
gubernatorial elections in New York and Connecticut
provide an opportunity to raise questions regarding the
future of the property tax system, as well as the
potential for improving our communities through
comprehensive and coordinated fiscal and land use
planning on all levels of government." In
Connecticut, the trick will be for gubernatorial
candidates and their questioners to avoid simplistic
labels or catchy slogans and engage in a realistic
debate about how the system could be changed.
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Who
Pays the Property Tax?
This Lincoln Institute of Land Policy article
on the economic incidence of the property
tax compares competing arguments that it's a
benefits tax (a user charge for public services received)
or a capital tax (on the use of capital which
inefficiently distorts resource allocation). Parts of
this article could help further frame the discussion in
Connecticut about the pitfalls of relying so
heavily on the
property tax as we do for public education.
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