Capital Solutions for Equitable Transit-Oriented Development
Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Scott Bernstein
Scott Bernstein is President of the Center for Neighborhood Technology, a 33-year old urban sustainability innovations laboratory which promotes healthy, sustainable communities by helping local leaders understand and use their hidden assets; CNT’s work was honored with a 2009 MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Organizations. He studied engineering and political science & served at Northwestern University’s Center for Urban Affairs, taught planning at the UCLA graduate school and was a founding Advisory Board member at the Brookings Metropolitan Program. President Clinton appointed him to the President’s Council for Sustainable Development, where he co-chaired its Metropolitan Sustainable Communities task force. He helped write a climate strategy for the 1st 100 days of the new Administration, & helped create the Chicago Climate Action Plan at the request of Mayor Daley. CNT also led the development team of the Clinton Foundation’s Project 2 Degrees, to make climate accounting software available for the world’s largest cities. He is a board member of the American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy and the Congress for a New Urbanism, and was appointed by Illinois Governor Quinn to the Illinois Economic Recovery Commission, where he chaired its Infrastructure Task Force. Planetizen rated Scott among the top “urban thinkers” in 2009 and 2011.
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