{"id":136713026,"date":"2009-05-02T07:50:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136713026"},"modified":"2009-05-02T07:50:26","modified_gmt":"2009-05-02T07:50:26","slug":"governor-glendening-recognized-for-a-lifetime-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136713026","title":{"rendered":"Governor Glendening recognized for a lifetime of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Glendening addresses the conference attendees in Albuquerque after receiving his lifetime achievement award.<br \/>\nGovernor Parris Glendening, who serves SGA as the President of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, received a few notable recognitions earlier in 2009.<br \/>\nIn January Gov. Glendening received a lifetime achievement award at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico in recognition of his years of tireless service to advance the ideas of smart growth \u2014 first in Maryland as an elected leader, and across the country in the years hence. The New Partners Conference honored his work as governor of Maryland and with the Smart Growth Leadership Institute.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n.<br \/>\nIn the years leading up to the passage of the Smart Growth and Neighborhood Conservation Act in 1997, the Governor was regularly traveling the State to garner support for his program \u2014 so much so that it was widely joked that \u201cwherever two or more are gathered together, Parris Glendening will talk about smart growth.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cHe\u2019s done as much as anyone in the country to popularize not only the phrase but also the idea behind smart growth,\u201d they wrote of Governor Glendening in the conference program. \u201cGlendening has left a permanent imprint on the land use and environmental policies of his home state and nation.\u201d<br \/>\nAlso earlier this year, the former governor served as the United States representative at the Pew Whales Commission, part of the Pew Trusts Environmental Group\u2019s push to improve the state of the world\u2019s oceans. The commission, a group of high-level policy-makers from 13 different nations, met in Lisbon for a two-day conference to discuss whale conservation and whaling, and to report their conversation to the International Whaling Commission.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.smartgrowthamerica.org\/?p=308\">https:\/\/blog.smartgrowthamerica.org\/?p=308<\/a>oldId.20090502075026790<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governor Glendening addresses the conference attendees in Albuquerque after receiving his lifetime achievement award. Governor Parris Glendening, who serves SGA as the President of the Smart Growth Leadership Institute, received a few notable recognitions earlier in 2009. In January Gov. Glendening received a lifetime achievement award at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=136713026\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Governor Glendening recognized for a lifetime of work&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136713026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136713026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136713026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136713026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136713026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136713026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136713026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}