AS WE CELEBRATE EARTH DAY and the worldwide movement to protect our environment, it’s heartening that sustainability and an appreciation for clean air, water, and land have become mainstream values. We have come a long way from the first Earth Day in 1970, when, too often, environmental consequences were an afterthought. And while many hurdles […]
Tim Brennan
Tim Brennan is Executive Director of the Pioneer Valley Planning Commission/Pioneer Valley Regional Ventures Center, and is active in other organizations including the National Association of Regional Councils; the Massachusetts Association of Regional Planning Agencies; the New England Association of Regional Councils, and; the New England Knowledge Corridor Economic Partnership.
Tim is an adjunct faculty member with the Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning Department at UMass/Amherst, and an adjunct faculty member with the Graduate Public Administration Program at Westfield State University. Tim holds a Bachelors of Arts from the State University of New York at Buffalo, a Master of Regional Planning degree from University of Massachusetts and an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Westfield State University.
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Sound lessons from Seattle
MASSACHUSETTS IS ABUZZ with talk about whether Amazon might choose one of our communities for its second North American headquarters. Just days after Amazon announced a nation-wide search for “HQ2,” we visited the company’s longtime home, Seattle, with a delegation of more than a dozen Massachusetts leaders. This study tour – funded by the Barr […]