» Monthly Archives: May 2010
The Virtual CMO blog looks at the new Saint Consulting iPhone app
Craig Park has been active in the building industry for more than 30 years, holding leadership roles in marketing, business development, design, project management, and operations for firms in design and engineering consulting, contracting, and manufacturing. His blog, The Virtual CMO, takes a look at the new Saint iPhone app.
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Differences between offense and defense land use politics campaigns
(Editor’s Note: This latest installment from NIMBY Wars: The Politics of Land Use, sets out some of the differences between offense and defense in land use politics campaigns - such campaigns each mobilise local citizens but for different purposes and require different strategies and tactics)
By P. Michael Saint, Robert J. Flavell and Patrick F. Fox
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Opposition to local mosque plans highlights new NIMBY fears
A Moslem community in Brentwood, Tennessee, has decided to drop plans to build a local mosque after a planning battle thrust religion into the middle of a land use dispute. The Tennessean, reporting on the story, said that it highlights a trend where plans for building places of worship face growing resistance. The battle in ...
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Iowa doctors get taste of land use politics in medical mall dispute
A proposal to create a medical district near downtown Cedar Rapids has stirred controversy because the doctors want to close off an area of streets to allow larger buildings, parking and future growth of a medical campus.
The land use battle, as one Linn County supervisor explained, poses a tough choice for the community, which loves ...
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Mike Saint to speak at Hult International Business School, June 3
P Michael Saint, the founder, chairman and CEO of The Saint Consulting Group, will speak at Hult International Business School in Cambridge, Mass. on June 3. Michael Saint has built The Saint Consulting Group into the world’s largest and most experienced firm in the new management consulting discipline of land use politics. After a career ...
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Environmentalists target conservationists over renewables
Environmentalists are notching up the rhetoric against conservationists in a widening battle to win over public support for renewable energy.
As Tim Dickinson writes in the blog Outside Online, "The conservationists fighting renewable-energy development need to wake up and smell the wind and solar power. Now."
He points out that conservationists who have fought developers all their ...
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Medicine for NIMBYs: allay fear of the unknown
NIMBY Wars, our book on the politics of land use, chronicles the belief that all planning is political, which has been borne out by The Saint Consulting Group's experience in winning planning battles since 1983. Other enlightened voices recognize that conflict is the rule, not the exception, in the planning process and that fear of ...
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US Chamber notes Green vs Green gulf over renewables
The US Chamber of Commerce and many of its state-based affiliates appear as ideological conservatives on environment issues. No surprise there. But this same Chamber has drawn attention to energy projects around the country that face a kind of Green versus Green struggle over many clean and renewable energy projects.
The US Chamber's website Project No Project documents energy projects ...
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Mining industry glimpses light at end of tunnel
By Christopher Hopkins,Senior Vice President, Aggregates and Mining, The Saint Consulting GroupThe end may be in sight for part of the recession that has devastated sections of the mining industry over the past three years. Cemex and Vulcan Materials both recorded increased sales in April and are projected to have a further increase in May, ...
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UK General Election – So, what happened?
By Nick KeableVice President, UK Operations, The Saint Consulting Group Here we are in limbo then; a bizarre election, backroom deals in progress and Gordon Brown still in Number 10. What happened? In short:Conservatives – They did well but not well enough. It was always a mountain to climb statistically but they were in the end ...
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