Leadership for Policy and System Change: Working together for equitable access to healthy food and opportunities to be active is the theme for this year’s HEAL NH Conference, to be held on Friday, October 1 at the Grappone Center in Concord. The keynote speaker is Bill Purcell, former mayor of Nashville and current Institute of Medicine […]
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On Friday and Saturday, August 28 and 29, a team of Plan NH members and others will gather with Laconia Planner Shanna Saunders and her team to hold a community planning and design charrette. Building on the extensive work that the City has been doing with the Orton Family Foundation, and in conjunction with an
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Plan NH is pleased to present a FREE workshop, Building Community Resilience: learning to serve our built and social infrastructures though ecological design. NH’s own Steve Whitman will lead this introductory session on building community resilience though ecological design. It IS possible to create communities that are more resilient to severe weather and other outside
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At the Midwinter Gathering held on January 29 at Three Chimneys Inn in Durham, Plan NH announced that its first Villager of the Year Award was for Arthur T. Demoulas, who gained national recognition in Summer 2014 as the twenty-year battle for leadership at Demoulas Market Basket Supermarkets came to a head. “There are shifts
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UNH released two reports today (one for Southern and one for Northern NH) that describe the warming trends we will see over the next few decades, as well as more frequent “extreme precipitation” events. The reports were compiled to assist municipalities in planning decision-making for future investments. For more information and to download the reports,
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The National Complete Streets Coalition, a program of Smart Growth America, announced on February 18th that Portsmouth NH ranked 7th in the country for its quality Complete Streets policy, passed by the City Council in October 2013. The concept of Complete Streets means that when a road or street is built or re-built, it takes
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