Our Favorite Links
While our focus is to provide land conservation and nonprofit resources, we also want to share some of our other favorite links and resources, including books, articles, news stories and documentaries. We’ll also tell you why we think it’s a good source. Here we share some favorite links.
Land Use and Planning Links
Center for Land Use Education. Although this website, which is operated by the University of Wisconsin , focuses on Wisconsin issues, the quality of the resources CLUE offers will help even conservationists or land use planners located in Hawaii . For example, the quarterly the Land Use Tracker newsletter provides a variety of informative articles written by experts in their fields with nationwide relevance, such as “Regulatory Approaches to Conservation Subdivisions in Wisconsin,” found in the Summer 2007 issue or “Is Your Community Planning to Protect Its Drinking Water?,” found in the Fall 2007 issue.
Shifting Ground – A Public Radio Series. From the site: American cities, towns, and rural areas are suffering growing pains. The symptoms are obvious. The remedies are not. Shifting Ground is a public radio series that examines the difficult choices confronting communities as they cope with change and try to shape a better future. This new NPR series explores in depth some of the serious sociological and philosophical issues associated with land conservation. For example, “Who decides when “forever” ends?” is a currently featured NPR story involving a Wyoming ranch and the dispute that arose when the county commission terminated a conservation easement that was granted just nine years prior. Click here to listen to this story. Pour yourself a cup of tea and spend some time checking out the other conservation links offered at NPR’s Shifting Ground.
Planetizen.com. If you need to be on the cutting edge of planning issues, then add this site to your favorites and visit often (and we challenge you to try saying “Planetizen” out loud). This site lives up to its own description: Planetizen is a public-interest information exchange provided by Urban Insight for the urban planning, design, and development community. It is a one-stop source for urban planning news, commentary, interviews, event coverage, book reviews, announcements, jobs, consultant listings, training, and more. Planetizen prides itself on covering a wide number of planning, design, and development issues, from transportation to global warming, architecture to infrastructure, housing and community development to historic preservation. We provide a forum for people across the political and ideological spectrum, ensuring a healthy debate on these and other important issues.
