Governor Glendening recognized for a lifetime of work

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 Albuquerque, New Mexico in recognition of his years of tireless service to advance the ideas of smart growth — 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.

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In 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 — so much so that it was widely joked that “wherever two or more are gathered together, Parris Glendening will talk about smart growth.”

“He’s done as much as anyone in the country to popularize not only the phrase but also the idea behind smart growth,” they wrote of Governor Glendening in the conference program. “Glendening has left a permanent imprint on the land use and environmental policies of his home state and nation.”

Also earlier this year, the former governor served as the United States representative at the Pew Whales Commission, part of the Pew Trusts Environmental Group’s push to improve the state of the world’s 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.

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