A few relevant highlights from NCCHPP's Newsletter:

*Events*

*CAN - Healthy Communities and Planning for Active Transportation: Talking the Talk and Walking the Walkhttp://politiquespubliques.inspq.qc.ca/url.php?i=2728&f=News&l=En * The Ontario Professional Planners Institute is organizing this conference on active transportation in Markham on September 20 and 21, 2012. Speakers will look at trends, planning and success stories in active transport.

*US - True urbanism: planning healthy communities for allhttp://politiquespubliques.inspq.qc.ca/url.php?i=2727&f=News&l=En * This conference, organized by The International Making Cities Livable Council, will examine the evidence, and focus on ways we can reshape the built environment to increase physical and social health and well-being. The conference takes place in Portland Oregon from May 20 to 24, 2012.

*Publications*

***INT - Greenhouse Gases – Emissions, Measurement and Management - The Environmental and Population Health Benefits of Active Transport: A Reviewhttp://politiquespubliques.inspq.qc.ca/url.php?i=2720&f=News&l=En * This 504-page book collects studies of recent advances in the understanding of greenhouse gases that are essential to stopping climate change and global warming. Chapter 19 deals with the benefits of active transportation to the environment and to public health. It was produced by Richard Larouche from the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.