Smart Growth Webinars, Videos, and Podcasts

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Webinars

EPA's Office of Community Revitalization has hosted webinars on a variety of community revitalization and smart growth topics. All webinars are free; many satisfy the certification maintenance requirements for AICP planners. To be notified about webinars, publications, and other news, please sign up for our newsletter, follow us on X (formerly Twitter) (@EPAcommunities), or like us on Facebook.

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Recent Webinars

Recreation Economy for Rural Communities

EPA held a webinar on Oct. 27, 2021, for communities interested in applying for the Recreation Economy for Rural Communities program.

Presenter

  • Stephanie Bertaina, Office of Community Revitalization

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Local Foods, Local Places

On October 9, 2020, EPA hosted a webinar about the Local Foods, Local Places Program and how to apply for the 2020 call for applications, which closed on November 13, 2020.

Presenter
  • John Foster, Office of Community Revitalization
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Videos

National Award for Smart Growth Achievement

These videos show how winners of EPA's National Award for Smart Growth Achievement are using smart growth approaches to expand economic opportunity, protect public health and the environment, and create and enhance the places that people love.

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EPA Technical Assistance Projects

These videos tell the stories of some of the technical assistance projects EPA has done with communities.

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  • Corbin, Kentucky: This video shows how the community used local foods to revitalize downtown, helping to reduce the vacancy rate from 40 percent to 5 percent. EPA worked with Corbin through Local Foods, Local Places.
  • Giles County, Virginia: This video highlights how the county is working with EPA's Recreation Economy for Rural Communities program to support local economic development through outdoor recreation. 
  • Peoria, Illinois: This video shows how EPA worked with community members in Peoria through Local Foods, Local Places to help them develop a vision of using the local food system to support community revitalization in the Southside neighborhood.
  • Phoenix, Arizona: This video describes the Greening America's Capitals program and a workshop on design options for Lower Grand Avenue.
  • Phoenix and Mesa, Arizona: This video describes technical assistance from EPA's Smart Growth Implementation Assistance program to help the city of Phoenix, the city of Mesa, and the Valley Metro Transit Authority plan transit-oriented development around light rail.
  • Rainelle, West Virginia: This video shows how Rainelle is using Local Foods, Local Places assistance from EPA to build a robust local food economy, revitalize downtown, and bring hope and health to community members while recovering from floods that devastated the community in the summer of 2016.
  • St. Louis, Missouri: This video discusses the experience of community members in St. Louis' 26th Ward who worked with the Building Blocks for Sustainable Communities Program on a walkability audit.
  • Williamson, West Virginia: This video shows how community members in Williamson, West Virginia, used a Federally Qualified Health Center and local foods to anchor their downtown redevelopment efforts. EPA worked with Williamson through Local Foods, Local Places.

Podcasts

Harlan, Kentucky: In EPA's podcast about the Local Foods, Local Places project in Harlan, Kentucky, town residents talk about how they worked with EPA and other federal agencies to develop a plan to use local foods to diversify their economy, improve residents' health, and revitalize the downtown.

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Last updated on October 30, 2024