Greenway board pressing nonprofits to finish projects
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The nonprofit institutions designated to build cultural facilities on the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway in downtown Boston soon will be required to show progress by a newly emboldened board that monitors the project.
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In Atlanta, a ambitious municipal undertaking: transforming the railroad right-of-way into a 22-mile looping green corridor that strings together many of the cityÂs parks.
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By Alyson Crean, Florida Keys Keynoter, Marathon  Feb. 28--It may have seemed a good idea at the time, but initiating a land-mapping for allotting building permits continues to hit snags.
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By David Sneed, The Tribune, San Luis Obispo, Calif.  Dec. 8--The City of San Luis Obispo and local land conservationists have raised the money needed to preserve more than 700 acres of land that will expand the city's greenbelt.
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This DIY center is still under construction.
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A charitable campaign created last year by a New York boutique agency is arriving next month in more than a dozen other cities.
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By Zhu Zhe and Sun Xiaohua  After putting two highly polluting projects on hold as a result of public pressure, the top environmental watchdog yesterday said it would seek to establish a proper mechanism to allow for its further participation in environmental governance.
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By The News & Observer, Raleigh, N.C.  Dec. 9--What's muddying the waters at North Carolina's Clean Water Management Trust Fund? The state-funded conservation organization recently lost its executive director, and then its board chairman stepped down.
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By Anonymous  Conservation and fishing organizations protested today the lack of progress made to address the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico.
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By Tom Lutey, The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.  Jun. 23--Linda Dixon, like a lot of Spokane Valley residents, has learned to dread the "Notice of Application" signs that crop up on neighborhood streets whenever a new development is in the works.
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The nonprofit One Laptop Per Child Project struggles with slow orders and competition from commercial vendors.
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Construction of a Planned Parenthood clinic is on schedule and nearly complete despite a two-month work stoppage last year organized by an abortion opponent.
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A union is trying to force nonprofit groups like hospitals to comply with standards of governing similar to those that federal law requires of private companies.
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A diverse group of organizations has started a long-term project to monitor the Appalachian Trail for environmental problems.
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THE California Coastal Trail is a vision in progress, according to Bill Korbholz of Redwood City, the chairman of the San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 30  /PRNewswire/ -- Consistently an environmental leader, the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Services will soon use its irrigation systems to pilot a new organic fertilizing product developed by the Garden Promise Company.
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By Justin Hill, Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Feb. 5--A proposal to close three Albany streets at the city's northern border with El Cerrito is moving forward after consultants heard from the public before starting work on an environmental review.