Region Forward Blog ULI-COG Seek TAP Program Participants to Strengthen Area Activity Centers Jan 28, 2015 The Urban Land Institute-Washington and Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments are encouraging local governments to apply for a new round of Technical Assistance Panels-or TAPs.
Region Forward Blog The Worth of Water Jan 13, 2015 Shortly after the MCHM spill in the Elk River just outside Charleston, West Virginia, COG sent water quality specialists to the site to observe the response methods to the crisis. This post comes one year after the spill.
Region Forward Blog 2014 COG Series Provides In-Depth Look at Region's Infrastructure COG Infrastructure Series Dec 30, 2014 In 2014 the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments identified regional infrastructure as its focus and held a series on COG’s main areas of expertise such as transportation water energy and public safety communications. Officials planned the series to identify policy advocacy and outreach actions around key infrastructure needs.
Region Forward Blog Are you interested in joining the Air and Climate Public Advisory Committee? ACPAC Dec 12, 2014 A Guest Post by Current Air and Climate Public Advisory Committee Vice-Chair Glenna Tinney
Region Forward Blog More Activity in Activity Centers: Coalition Focuses on Public Health and Placemaking Dr. Mark Fenton speaks to everyday exercise and built-in mobility for the region's Activity Centers at the October Region Forward Coalition meeting. Nov 14, 2014 Officials planners and stakeholders need to consider public health when making decisions about land use transportation and other infrastructure according to Dr. Mark Fenton who spoke at the October meeting of the Region Forward Coalition. Fenton a Tufts University professor spoke to “landscaping a social ecology for health” which includes planning communities with walkable retail public sidewalks bike infrastructure and safe facilities for all age groups.
Region Forward Blog The PicMe Project: COG's Newest Foster Care Adoption Initiative Support the PicMe Project today! Nov 4, 2014 November is National Adoption Month. It is an annual campaign to increase public awareness of the half million children who are waiting to be adopted from foster care across the country.
Region Forward Blog Metropolitan Washington Continues to Lead on LEED and Other Green Energy Initiatives WSSC Solar Oct 23, 2014 For the past several years COG has tracked the region’s progress in addressing climate change and meeting the ambitious goals of its 2008 National Capital Region Climate Change Report . In this year’s Climate and Energy Progress Report COG for the first time also compared metropolitan Washington to other regions around the nation.
Region Forward Blog Building a Climate Resilient National Capital Region A flooded day on the Potomac Tidal Basin. Photo by Bossi. Oct 2, 2014 As the UN Climate Conference in Bonn Germany gears up this month the National Capital Region is working on climate change locally. Over the past year federal regional and local agencies have been putting their heads together to tackle one of the region’s biggest challenges: how to prepare for the climate change that is already underway. The National Capital Region was fortunate to have the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Office of Strategic Infrastructure and NASA Applied
Region Forward Blog Chesapeake Bay Policy and Water Resources Policy Committee Members Visit Blue Plains Plant Chesapeake Bay and Water Resources Policy Committee at Blue Plains. Sep 25, 2014 Whether it’s used water from a sink a toilet dishwasher or washing machine every day 24-hours a day and 365 days a year that “dirty” water is treated at wastewater plants throughout the metropolitan Washington region. For a great portion of this region almost half of of that wastewater is treated at the Blue Plains Advanced Wastewater Treatment
Region Forward Blog 9-1-1 Communications Infrastructure Essential to Safety of Region NextGen 9-1-1 service will feature wider support for texting 9-1-1 during an emegency. Sep 22, 2014 The ability to reach emergency first responders is vital to saving lives but in most areas of the country services like 9-1-1 calls still use outdated technologies . Upgraded emergency-communications infrastructure will be vital not only to keeping our region functioning on a daily basis but to avoiding the problems caused when 9-1-1 communications have failed in the past.