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One of the best and way-too-brief attempts I have read that successfully gets across, in a clear, concise (short!) compelling way, the wide spectrum of skills and talents our profession calls for and demands. 

Thanks for sharing this. 

Added to that short list: 

• EPA Sustainable Communities Grants 

http://www.sustainablecommunities.gov/grants.html

• Federal DOT Tiger Grants 

http://www.dot.gov/tiger/

• Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) 

http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/comm_plann…

• Transportation Equity Act -21…

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Andrew:

Yes, that memorable quote is as powerful and observant now as it was for the first Clinton campaign in 1992. Whichever party does not emphasize the most obvious and current concern of the American electorate will be the “stupid” party this time around. 

My take on your comment about the President’s comment (“you don’t want to go back”)…[Read more]

Since I started what appears to have become a fractured and off-track dialogue thus far, here is my “take” more faithful to the original intent of the question, in an attempt to get this topic back to its “roots”…

• Environmental Protection Agency- Gutted and castrated to the point of being inconsequential. 
• Clean Water Act- (enforced by EPA)…

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Hey! Toby: 

Do you see what you can contribute here….opinion of the political genre that has some legitimacy and timeliness to it. That is if dare to “cross that line” of treacherous civil discourse. God forbid, we as individual representatives of our profession, boldly profess our viewpoints about how the ship of state will be steered in the…[Read more]

 
A tapered lawn and flanking allées of littleleaf linden trees converge from atop a 100-foot-wide ceremonial staircase, pointing toward the tip of the island as if stretching toward infinity. 
Reminds me of the numbing power of the forced-lines of the vista from the plaza space between the buildings at the Salk Institute. Perhaps one of Kahn’s mo…[Read more]

Mark:
Man, those really irritating insects on one’s chest can be pesky little creatures. Glad you got that little bugger off.

I meant no intentional harm, nor foul in singling out your forum posting in the comparative and introductory part of this posting. My sole motivation, that you seemingly missed or skipped over, was simply this and remains…[Read more]

Jarrod:
 
Hot Tip and Big Clue here: There is near a kiloton of forum discussions on this and directly related topics here, most within the span of this year so far. You will find more than ample, current and cogent insights from those who posted in those forums about their experiences regarding your curiousity.The individual and co…[Read more]

Leslie: 

Thank you for more thoughtful and well-reasoned commentary here. I have been having this problem with my knee recently where it tends to have an unexpected and massive twitch that seems to occur when I am posting on Land8Lounge, and I tend to come off more as “jerk” sometimes. If I consider things more clearly and completely like you…[Read more]

Daniel and Jordan (above):
Clearly I was the hypocritical heretic here and for that I offer my humble apology with a 75%/25% split. The 75% goes out to Jordan for my incendiary closing, low-brow and blow “tea” related remark. That was highly uncalled for and Daniel your also right. It was not very civil and respectful.
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Jordan:

I respect your viewpoint here, but the countervailing arguments, supported by a feedbag of facts big enough to stuff the largest GOP elephant you can find nearby, are that tax cuts are next to ineffectual in job-creation and the general invigoration of  whatever national economy they have been tried and repeatedly failed in, especially…[Read more]

Kristina:
 
Here are my recommendations:
 

• If you have no direct or indirect project experience in Singapore, Hong Kong or Mainland China, you’re at a major disadvantage.
• If you do not speak Cantonese or Mandarin, your disadvantage just doubled. 
• If you cannot design and sketch  (freehand) persuasively and convincingly at the speed of light or ne…

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Nathan:

If you want to see the “real” and ancient (compared to our infant country) China, you need only to go to two cities and their immediate surroundings. Xi’an and Guilin. No need for Beijing, which is overrated, overcrowded and really just too expensive. 

Boilerplater:

Once again, a spot-on commentary. We definitely think alike. 

Chris: Glad to help and I hope you found this information and the leads that go with it, beneficial to PGA’s efforts in West Oakland. BTW, I grew up in the East Bay, for what that is worth.

Chris:
Here is an article that is a must read for what your attempting to do for this community group and how those efforts and the overall tree canopy for the city those trees grow in, can be inventoried and updated. 
This is recent and from San Diego. The same kind of project has been done in San Francisco, so you may already be aware of…[Read more]

Hello PGA: 

This non-profit has been doing tree planting on a house-by-house, street-by-street, neighborhood-to-neighborhood in Portland, Oregon for a very long time.
https://friendsoftrees.org/
If they can’t answer your questions, have them refer you to the Urban Forester for the City of Portland. (Portland Parks Bureau). They take urban…[Read more]

Nick:

I hope your fee accommodates some of the interference this client is apparently giving you in getting the job done he hired you for in the first place. If you have a clear and defensible clause in your professional services contract addressing additional services,  that may come in handy also in this case. 
You have left how examples of how…[Read more]

I have read this thread of discussion and I don’t think I am missing anything here. Andrew Garulay sums up my viewpoint better than I could. I am really striving to find any direct relevance here as to what is going on in the “real” world. Nerd, geek or whatever you want to label the outcasts and outliers of our profession, what is really is your…[Read more]

Jason:
 
Your comments made me re-read that “resume” advice I posted to begin with. At second and third look, particularly based on what you have added here, that advice would be best taken and applied to the cover letter. If you could cover that kind of ground in a cover letter (no way it could be one page) and do it masterfully, you would…[Read more]