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April 3-9
April 4, 6p
Retrofitting Suburbia,
Farragut Town Hall (11408 Municipal Center Dr.) FREE
April 5, 6p
Retrofitting Suburbia,
UT Art and Architecture Auditorium (1715 Volunteer Blvd.) FREE
April 14, 7-9p
AIA
's Architecture Week Design Symposium: What Makes a Livable City?,
The Square Room (details
here)
FREE
April 29, 9a-12n
East Knoxville Community Clean-up,
Eternal Life Harvest Center Plaza (register
here)
May 9-11
Appalachian Gateway Communities 2017 Regional Workshop,
Ringgold, GA (Application deadline for teams is March 24, details
here.)
May 21, 2-6p
Open Streets Knoxville,
Magnolia Avenue (details
here)
FREE
May 23-34
TDEC Sustainable
Transportation Awards & Forum,
Nashville
(hosted with TDOT and TN Clean Fuels Coalition; details
here)
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The Aetna Foundation's Cultivating Healthy Communities (CHC) grant is geared specifically to local nonprofit organizations that work with underserved, low-income, and minority populations. They are seeking
proposals that address the
social determinants of health
and participants' physical, mental, social, and emotional well-being. Deadline is April 14; details here.
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| The Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) offers new opportunities for the USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS), conservation partners, and agricultural producers to work together to harness innovation, expand the conservation mission, and demonstrate the value and efficacy of voluntary, private lands conservation. Project pre-applications are due on or before April 21. Details here. |
Carson-Newman University and
Grant Writing USA will present a
two-day grants workshop in Jefferson City,
May 8-9. This training is for grant seekers across all disciplines. Beginning and experienced grant writers from city, county and state agencies as well as nonprofits, K-12, colleges and universities are encouraged to attend.
ETQG has been asked to share this with our partnering agencies: a special tuition rate of $425. Please use discount code "TNASSN" to receive this $30 discount off full price at registration.
Find the registration form
here.
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Friends,
If this is your first time receiving our newsletter... Welcome!
We were on hand last month for Knoxville's annual
Neighborhood Conference, a conference that showcases local community projects, celebrates volunteerism and diversity, and provides ample opportunity for networking with local and regional community leaders.
ETQG hosted a booth, which resulted in many new friends signing up to receive our monthly email. Welcome new subscribers!
In this newsletter you'll find upcoming events, grant opportunities, and our current series highlighting the counties in our region.
The newsletter is one way we share information promoting great places and great projects underway in the 16-county East Tennessee Region.
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County Spotlight: Roane County
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ETQG is a non-profit serving Anderson, Blount, Campbell, Claiborne, Cocke, Grainger, Hamblen, Jefferson, Knox, Loudon, Monroe, Morgan, Roane, Scott, Sevier, and Union counties. Each month we will spotlight one of these counties.
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Eastbound visitors to our region likely enter through Roane County. Traveling along 1-40 atop Walden Ridge, drivers can look out southeast across the county, looking down upon the towns of Rockwood, Cardiff, Harriman, and, in the distance, Kingston.
Like its sister county, Anderson, Roane County was greatly affected by the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, and also by the technological development that followed.
The K-25 plant is located in the north part of the county. K-25, along with the Y-12 and X-10 sites, were instrumental to the war's Manhattan Project. Deconstruction and long-term remediation have transformed the site, now known as the
Roane is a strong economic driver for our region. Located along the transit spine of the state, it boasts an individual income per capita of $37,441, compared to the regional average of $33,612. Area
Roane State Community College
is known for building partnerships between technology focused industries and local workforce applicants.
In terms of natural features, Roane county bridges the Cumberland Escarpment and the Tennessee Valley. There is an abundance of water. In fact, almost nine percent of Roane county's geographic area is water! The Clinch, Emory, and Tennessee Rivers are impounded in the county creating Watts Bar Lake, instrumental in providing an abundance of energy to assist in the Manhattan Project effort. Today, Watts Bar attracts lake recreationists while still providing plentiful energy for the region. A Coal Ash Spill occurred at the Kingston Plant in 2008, resulting in changes to regulations on how fly ash from power plants is handled.
Roane Tourism Alliance recently began the Soak in Roane campaign to help promote Roane County and Watts Bar Lake. If you're planning on sight seeing in Roane, you should check it out. You just might win a prize!
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Mobility 2040 conducted its third survey,
which was open from February 6 to March 23. Find out what
their results were
here
. Also, their final draft of the Mobility Plan 2040 is available here.
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| Walkability Speaker Series: Retrofitting Suburbia |
 Ellen Dunham-Jones will be here this week presenting at four different engagements. Dunham-Jones, an award winning architect, will show how development of existing suburbs can be transformed into places that help residents to be more physically active, while strengthening the local economy.
As professor of architecture at Georgia Institute for Technology where she coordinates the Urban Design masters program, she is a leading authority on sustainable suburban redevelopment and co-author of Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. Her research has been featured in The New York Times, TED, PBS and NPR.
The events are co-hosted by Regional Transportation Planning Organization (TPO), Metropolitan Planning Commission (MPC), Knoxville Area Assocation of Realtors (KAAR),and East Tennessee Quality Growth (ETQG). More details about the events can be found here. Hope to see you there!
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Tate & Lyle, a leading global provider of speciality food ingredients and solutions, celebrated the opening of its new co-generation plant at its corn wet milling facility in Loudon.
photo courtesy: Tate & Lyle Grain, Inc.
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natural gas-fired combined heat and power system, representing a $60 million investment, will significantly improve energy and operational efficiency at the Loudon facility, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by nearly 50%. Tate & Lyle's global CO2e emissions will also be reduced by around 10% as a result of this investment. The natural gas for the combined heat and power system will be supplied through a new dedicated pipeline which, as well as meeting Tate & Lyle's energy needs, will provide the wider area with additional natural gas capacity to support local economic development efforts.
Read more here.
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HappyHealthySmart Symposium Wrap Up
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The HappyHealthySmart Film Symposium was last week and was a huge success! Hosted by the Knoxville TPO and the East Tennessee Community Design Center, the symposium was an opportunity to engage in issues around land use and transportation, to learn about the ways these issues are being affected by technology, and the ways they affect our happiness and our health. The discussion was facilitated by alternating between short documentaries, expert commentary, and audience participation.
These events were recorded and will be available for viewing on the
ETQG Youtube channel shortly. We will let you know when they become available!
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