Call to Authors for Sustainability, Smart Growth, and Environmental Economy

Dear Friends:

Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (BOOST) is looking for a sponsor for our exhibitor space at Heritage Days 2008. In addition, BOOST is seeking authors of books, articles, magazines, and literature (non-fiction, fiction, children’s, young readers’, academic, and mass market) to do a brief presentation(s), display and sign copies of their books/publications, and enjoy the festivities at Trenton’s 30th annual Heritage Days celebration on Saturday and Sunday, June 7 and 8 and at Classics Used and Rare Books book fair.

That weekend, we will be launching our year-long series of public awareness forums and community capacity building workshops, Green, Smart, and Sustainable Stakeholder Education and Training (GSS-SET) at New Jersey’s largest outdoor festival which draws upwards of 25,000 people into the area around the Garden State’s Capitol Complex.

Would you be interested in sponsoring our exhibitor/vender space and share exhibitor space on-site at the festival and market your publications related services to HD Festival attendees in the following topical areas (but not limited to):

* Conscientious Commerce;
* Ecological Design;
* Environmental Education;
* Environment & the Economy;
* Gardening & Cooking for Sustainability;
* Green Building;
* Natural Building & Open Space Preservation;
* Progressive Leadership;
* Renewable Energy;
* Smart Growth;
* Sustainable Living;
* Sustainable Community Design;
* Whole Ecocoligal Design;

Authors have a near-captive audience to market their books and related services, both at the HD Festival as well as at our partner bookstore. This event will falls on the heals of BOOST being featured the May edition of New Jersey and Company Magazine, which is focusing on our Capitol Region that month!

Please contact us to sponsor a booth(s), speak briefly, and sign your books at our festival staging site and at Classics Used and Rare Books, sign and sell you books. You can enjoy Heritage Days weekend with the thousands of citizens in the tri-state area. We can be reached at (206) 202-2883 at our voice and fax center and by email at gss-set@gss-set.com. If you would like to know more about our organization, please visit our blog at www.gss-set.blogspot.com and feel free to book-mark our web site www.gss-set.com, which is under construction.

Sincerely,

Timothy A. Razzaq – 3/28/08

Where’s Trenton's walkability in a downtown residential context centered at?

Trenton's Broad Street Bank Building Meets Smart Growth Criteria for Walkability and Bicyability!

Criteria (from Kerry Trueman at http://www.rhinecliff.org/node/149 :) "'Smart Growth,' by definition, relies on “walkability.” Unlike sprawl, which spreads unchecked till it becomes The Blob That Ate Your Town, Smart Growth features “mixed use” development, in which businesses and residences are situated within easy walking distance of each other, and apartments are located above shops. In theory, you can take care of all your daily errands without needing to drive."

Trenton's Broad Street Bank Building (BSBB) is located at the intersection of South Montgomery and East State Streets and is directly on two New Jersey Transit bus stops, a five-minute walk from Trenton Station, around the corner from a taxi stand, has on-site bicycle storage racks, achieved a hard-earned shared parking agreement with the State of New Jersey and the Trenton Parking Authority for its tenants, and is within a short commute to Trenton-Mercer Airport. The Building is also within comfortable walking distance of the New Jersey Capital complex, the Mercer County administration building, Trenton City Hall, the State Library of New Jersey, Mercer County Community and Thomas Edison State Colleges, major hospitals, most state of New Jersey governmental office buildings, and the City’s Waterfront. Walkable features combined with the Building basement exercise room, make it a perfect fit for tenants who have the desire to promote their own personal health and reduce their own “carbon footprint” by walking to and from work, business, study, worship, and recreation sites and using metropolitan multimode transportation to reduce our region’s contribution to the nation’s reliance on fossil fuels and fight against global warming.

Green, Smart, and Sustainable Events and Forums

Please visit www.gss-set.com and bookmark your gateway to Green, Smart, and Sustainable Stakeholder Education Training 2008-09. GSS-SET launch details coming soon....

The following announcements courtesy Peter Kroll, Project Manager for Camden Gateway of New Jersey Conservation Foundation:

Building Capacity in Community-Based Organizations for Brownfields Development (April 4):
http://policy.rutgers.edu/brownfields

Association of NJ Environmental Commissions (ANJEC):
http://www.anjec.org
urban contact: Kerry Butch (urbananjec@yahoo.com)

South Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance (SJEJA):
http://www.sjeja.org/