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The Archive
Pages from the years when this domain was the website of a Fairhope nonprofit that championed walkable, healthy coastal towns. They are kept here as a record, without dates and with contact details removed.
From the archive. This page keeps material published on this domain by Smart Coast, a Fairhope, Alabama nonprofit, in the years around 2004–2013. It is preserved as a record; the magazine that publishes smartcoast.org today is independent and is not that nonprofit. Contact details and personal information have been removed, and pictures that no longer exist have been replaced with credited photographs.
Walking, biking and safer streets
Smart Walks
Dog Days of Summer Smart Walk
The last walk to school of the year set off from the Fairhope library with four-legged guests.
Smart Walks
Hop To It: the Spring Walk
A springtime walk to school in Fairhope, with a costumed visitor leading the way.
Walkability
Dan Burden Visits the Coast
The walkable-communities advocate toured Orange Beach and Fairhope, and joined a St. Patrick's Day walk to school.
Initiative
Healthy Coastal Communities
The vision behind walking to school, connected sidewalks and trails, and streets that work for every age.
Initiative
Complete Streets on the Coast
How the first Complete Streets policies in Alabama came to coastal cities, and what such a street looks like.
Initiative
Smart Walks to School
Monthly themed walks to school in Fairhope and Prichard, and the plan for a daily walking school bus.
Health
Childhood Obesity Awareness Month
Why September became a month to get children moving, and the numbers behind it at the time.
The coast and its resources
Event
Earth Day at the Fairhope Pier
A booth, volunteers and a papier-mache giraffe at Fairhope's annual Earth Day by Mobile Bay.
Resources
Useful Links for the Coast
Agencies, foundations and groups working on the environment, health and planning along the coast.
Growth, green building and business
Initiative
The Green Coast Council
A business forum on sustainable management built around the triple bottom line.
Projects
Past Projects, 2004–2008
The conferences on smart growth, mixed-use towns and green building that started it all.
Projects
Green Building on the Coast
The case for resource-efficient building in a region that builds fast.
Projects
Imagine: A Region With Mixed-Use Cities
The 2006 conference in Mobile on how growing coastal towns could mix homes, shops and work.
Projects
The S.H.I.F.T. Workshop
A sustainability workshop at the 5 Rivers Delta Resource Center.
Projects
Smart Growth for Coastal Alabama
Two 2004 gatherings, a conference and a roundtable, on balancing growth along the coast.
Recognition
Awards and Recognition
The environmental and community awards the nonprofit received over its first decade.
Recognition
The Giraffe Award
An award for people and businesses who stuck their necks out for a more sustainable coast.
The nonprofit and its supporters
Initiatives
Smart Coast Initiatives
The two programs of the nonprofit: Healthy Coastal Communities and the Green Coast Council.
About the nonprofit
About the Smart Coast Nonprofit
What the Fairhope nonprofit that once published this website set out to do.
About the nonprofit
The Smart Coast Mission
One sentence that guided a decade of work on healthier coastal towns.
About the nonprofit
How Smart Coast Began
From a one-day workshop for county commissioners to a regional nonprofit.
About the nonprofit
How the Nonprofit Was Organized
A board, two program directors and volunteers behind two initiatives.
About the nonprofit
The Nonprofit's Program Staff
The two program roles that ran the nonprofit's initiatives.
About the nonprofit
The Nonprofit's Board
A volunteer board drawn from business, health, design and public service in the coastal counties.
Notice
An AmeriCorps VISTA Position
A past notice for a one-year national service position in communications and walk-to-school work.
Notice
A Co-Founder Retires
A co-founder of the nonprofit stepped down after a decade as a program director.
Support
Why People Volunteer
The quotations the nonprofit chose to open its page for supporters.
Support
Community Supporters
The foundations, agencies and businesses that funded the nonprofit's first years.
Support
Volunteering With the Nonprofit
Photographers, writers and walk leaders kept the programs running.
Support
A Thank-You to a Volunteer
A restored classic bicycle for the nonprofit's unpaid volunteer coordinator.
Support
Volunteer Highlights
The volunteers who kept a website running and carried Complete Streets to city councils.
Support
Smart Walks Sponsors
The city and local businesses that sponsored the walks to school in Fairhope.
