Environment

Bridge Builders Award

Enterprise Community Partners and its Green Communities partners for collaborating with more than 25 developers, investors, builders and residents to create Green Communities, the first national green building program developed for affordable housing. Enterprise has made a commitment of $555 million to build more than 8,500 homes for low-income people and to bring environmentally sustainable development to the mainstream of the affordable housing industry.

Bridge Builders Award

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and California Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez for collaborating across party lines to enact a bipartisan environmental agenda that disregarded the political maneuvering and biased criticism that often stalls progress and that will ultimately reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the state.

William H. Whyte Award

Principal at the Townscape Institute, Urban Planner and Designer, Preservation Advocate, Environmental Educator and Critic, for his visionary discussions of visual literacy and place making in the American community.

Bridge Builders Award

Alice Coles, Executive Director, Bayview Citizens for Social Justice and Stephen Parker, Director, The Nature Conservancy, Virginia Coast Reserve for their leadership efforts in creating a new town by advancing both human needs such as housing, sewage, job training and childcare with the need to protect the ecological system of the region. Their dedication in this combined pursuit has not only benefited the low-income residents of Bayview but has helped to sustain one of Virginia’s poorest, rural villages on the Eastern Shore.

Investors in America Award

Governor of Maryland, for his work with smart growth and sustainable development in the State of Maryland and in the United States