» Monthly Archives: April 2011
Smart, green growth and walkable urban places are killing the ‘burbs
Times have changed, writes Kaid Benfield in The Atlantic magazine, and the key assumptions that encouraged decades of urban sprawl no longer hold true. Welcome to the era of smart, green growth. In a column headlined, "How History Killed the Suburbs", Benfield says the main assumptions for urban sprawl - unlimited land, cars, roads and ...
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Strategic Communications Part 7- Big Question: Can You Win?
(The Saint Report has been publishing a series of posts about strategic communications in land use politics - Part 1Grassroots Organizing; Part 2 Public Relations; Part 3 Crisis Comms; Part 4 Corporate Social Responsibility and Part 5 Do the messages work?; Part 6 Your Message Should Target and Mobilize)By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group In politics, money ...
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Saint Consulting’s Patrick Fox in WWD story on Wal-Mart
Patrick Fox, president of The Saint Consulting Group, is quoted in a recent Women's Wear Daily feature on the challenge of being Wal-Mart, discussing how people have become emboldened by the "Wal-Mart" effect of successfully challenging the world's biggest retailer's expansion efforts.
The story by Sharon Edelson examines the challenges facing Wal-Mart to expand into urban ...
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US Gives Green Light to Cape Wind Construction and Operation Plan
The Cape Wind Project got the green light from U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to begin construction — marking a milestone for the American offshore wind industry.
Salazar announced approval of the first-ever Construction and Operation Plan (COP) for a U.S. offshore wind energy project, granting Cape Wind Associates the official go-ahead to begin ...
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Support for Expanded Offshore Drilling Rebounds Year after Gulf Spill
A survey released on the eve of the BP oil spill’s one-year anniversary shows that support for expanded offshore drilling has bounced back to levels last seen during the energy price spikes of the summer of 2008, according to The Hill blog. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found 69 percent of respondents favor more drilling. ...
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At 35 Percent of New Capacity, is Wind Still Alternative Energy?
Wind represents a third of the nation’s new power, and the industry has grown 35 percent each year for five years, AWEA says. The U.S. wind energy industry saw 35 percent average annual growth over the last five years and accounted for 35 percent of new U.S. power capacity in that period, according to the 2010 ...
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Strategic Communications Part 6: Your message should target and mobilize
(The Saint Report has been publishing a series of posts about strategic communications in land use politics - Part 1Grassroots Organizing; Part 2 Public Relations; Part 3 Crisis Comms; Part 4 Corporate Social Responsibility and Part 5 Do the messages work?)
By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group
So how do we target our vote when we develop campaigns ...
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Strategic Communications Part 5: Do the messages work?
(The Saint Report has been publishing a series of posts about strategic communications in land use politics - Part 1 Grassroots Organizing; Part 2 Public Relations; Part 3 Crisis Comms; Part 4 Corporate Social Responsibility) By Owen Eagan, The Saint Consulting Group In Malcolm Gladwell’s book The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a ...
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New Zealand land use dispute: keep brothels out of residential areas
Prostitution laws should be amended to keep brothels out of residential areas, say two-thirds of New Zealanders surveyed in a new poll. Residents were concerned that men looking for brothels mistakenly would visit nearby homes trying to find sex workers. But the poll and its results have angered the national prostitutes collective, which says recriminalising ...
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Strategic Communications Part 4: Corporate Social Responsibility
(Owen Eagan and J. Gregory Payne have written recently in The Saint Report about strategic communications in land use politics - Part 1 Grassroots Organizing; Part 2 Public Relations; and Part 3 Crisis Comms) By Owen Eagan and J. Gregory Payne When people think of corporate social responsibility (CSR), most people likely think it originated ...
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