Strengthening Transit Through Community Partnerships
In 2023, CNT co-implemented three green infrastructure demonstration projects in Chicago as Nature Near Transit , an extension of our Climate & Cultural Resilience program. This work threads the many benefits of green stormwater infrastructure...Read more
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Topic: Climate
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topics: Climate, Environmental Justice, Sustainable Economic Development, Water
Chief Strategy and Program Officer Miriam Savad, above (at a CNT planning retreat) led our recently-completed theory of change, impact framework and strategic plan process. By Miriam Savad 2025 was by all accounts a disruptive year, ushering in a wave of instability. Yet amid this challenging...
Publication
topics: Climate, Transportation
In 2023, CNT co-implemented three green infrastructure demonstration projects in Chicago as Nature Near Transit, an extension of our Climate & Cultural Resilience program. This work threads the many benefits of green stormwater infrastructure with local art, place keeping, meaningful community...
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice, Policy
en español Communities like McKinley Park miss out on federal Justice40 benefits by a narrow margin. It doesn’t have to be that way. The Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool (CEJST) aims to identify “disadvantaged census tracts” for prioritizing federal funding and informing the national...
Project
topics: Climate, Transportation
We’re joining other groups across the country to advance racial and environmental justice through equitable electric mobility.
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topics: Climate, Environmental Justice, Transportation
During our recent Chicago Truck Data Portal project, cameras counted 5,159 trucks and buses, 129 pedestrians, and 53 bicyclists in 24 hours at West 41st Street and South Pulaski Road in Archer Heights. Truck count researcher and Urban Resilience Associate Paulina Vaca reflects on how supply chains...
Tool
topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Environmental Justice
CNT and the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization counted trucks and buses throughout Chicagoland. The counts available through this open-source portal shine a light on the problem of high truck traffic in environmental justice communities.
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topics: Climate, Policy, Transportation
Imagine tomorrow, all vehicles in the world suddenly became battery powered. Would that achieve all our climate and environmental justice goals? Not exactly. What will help close the gap between equity and climate goals is an electrification transition that follows the principles of the Towards...
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topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Policy, Transportation
The main purpose of the H+T Index is to help users identify the most “location efficient” places across the United States by calculating the cost of housing as well as the cost of transportation to provide a more comprehensive understanding of the affordability of place. We learned through surveys...
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topics: Climate, Equitable Transit Oriented Development, Policy, Transportation
Introducing a series of blogs on CNT’s H+T Affordability Index – our most popular web tool. Nearly 20 years ago, CNT (Center for Neighborhood Technology) developed our Housing & Transportation, or H+T, Affordability Index. We theorized – and the data quickly proved -- that adding the two...
Tool
topics: Climate, Data Analysis, Housing, Policy, Transportation
Where Matters reveals the hidden insights that support more equitable, sustainable communities in Northeast Ohio—and across more than 380 metros nationwide.