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Download below all the materials related to the retreat sponsored by Smart Growth America (SGA), National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Funders’ Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities and the Johnson Foundation at the Wingspread conference center in Racine, Wisconsin, from November 29 through December 1, 2010.

Notes from the meeting plus next steps and working group volunteer assignments.

Presentations

• Anti-sprawl research by Robert Liberty (PDF)
• Amanda Eaken on SB 375 (PDF)

Required reading materials

• State Pre-Meeting Survey Results
  Profiles gathered from pre-meeting surveys from 10 states participating in this conference (CO, IL, MA, MD, MN, NH, NJ, NY, VT and WA).
• Participant List
• Meeting Agenda
• Transform: SB 375 fact sheet (PDF)
• Transportation and Climate Initiative Report (Tab 5): Overview of Climate and Transportation policies

Optional reading materials
These materials served as additional background for discussions at Wingspread.

• State climate and transportation report Executive Summary and State Tiers
  NOTE: THIS MATERIAL IS STRICTLY EMBARGOED. This report, co-produced by SGA, NRDC and Friends of the Earth looks at 17 different transportation and climate policies in each state and ranks states in tiers based on their attempts to limit GHG emissions through transportation policy.
• National Transportation Objectives and Performance Targets from Transportation for America
• Transportation and Climate Initiative Report (PDF)
• Communities Tackle Global Warming: A Guide to California’s Sustainable Communities and Climate Protection Act (SB 375)
• Climate Change, Water, and Risk: Current Water Demands Are Not Sustainable (NRDC)
• Stopping Sprawl in the 50 States – Executive Summary.
  Report by Robert Liberty, commissioned by SGA and the Wallace Global Fund; NOTE: THIS MATERIAL IS NOT FOR PUBLIC USE. DO NOT DISTRIBUTE IN ANY WAY.