Across seven countries and 22 U.S. states, there are more than 137,000 parking spaces registered under the Parksmart program. Parksmart has now reached its 100th registration—St. Armands Parking Garage, in Sarasota, Florida, brought Parksmart to this milestone. While this is a great achievement for Parksmart, what does it mean for you?

Spanning more than 2 million square feet and 270 stores, Yorkdale Shopping Centre, located in Toronto, Canada, holds the country’s largest collection of designer labels and luxury brands, the best in home décor and tech, and now, Yorkdale Parkades E and G—the first two retail Parksmart certifications in the world.

Greenbuild is the world’s largest conference and expo dedicated to green building. Hosted November 14–16 in Chicago, the conference draws industry leaders, experts and frontline professionals dedicated to sustainable building, and will offer more than 200 education sessions—including a few different ways to learn about Parksmart.

Located adjacent to PNC Park, home of the Pittsburgh Pirates and Heinz Field, home of the Pittsburgh Steelers, you’ll find Gold 1 Parking Facility—the first Parksmart Gold certification ever, as well as the first garage in Pittsburgh, and in Pennsylvania, to certify through Parksmart.

GBCI is now offering Parksmart precertification as an optional step in the certification process. This allows registered projects to review work already completed and confirm that they are on the correct path to certification. Once a project has successfully completed the precertification review, GBCI will provide formal recognition of the team’s efforts.

Toronto parkades are the first two retail Parksmart certifications in the world

This article was previously published in The Parking Professional's July 2018 issue as "Revisiting Green Approaches," by Brian Shaw, and is reproduced with permission. Read the original article.

Great universities are laboratories for professors, students and and practitioners to create our future. Not surprisingly, they are at the cutting edge of thinking about how we can move beyond the single occupant vehicle to sustainable forms of mobility for all.

Cornell, Stanford, ASU and others are taking to heart futurist Buckminster Fuller's advice: "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”

Wondering how parking plays a role in the sustainability conversation on college and university campuses? During the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education’s (AASHE’s) Annual Conference hosted October 2–4 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, nearly 2,000 participants will gather to examine policies, research and transformative actions that advance sustainability in higher education.