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General
Photo Credit: Citistates Group
Journalists Curtis Johnson (left) and Neal Peirce, are co-authors of the “New England: New Century - New Game” series.
Mar: Consumer as Captain
Photo Credit: NEHI Dr. Wendy
Everett is the CEO of the New England Health Institute (NEHI). [NOTE:
High res version to be posted soon.]
Photo Credit: Griffin Hospital
Griffin Hospital, in Derby, CT, has received national recognition and acclaim
for creating a facility and approach to patient care responsive to the needs
of patients.
Photo Credit: Griffin Hospital
Griffin Hospital's Critical Care Unit was the first to be built using patient
and family centered concepts that go beyond aesthetics.
Photo Credit: Griffin Hospital
At Griffin Hospital, residential kitchens are available on all patient care
units where family members may prepare meals and dine with the patient. 
Photo Credit: Griffin Hospital
The Community Health Resource Center at Griffin Hospital is a lending library
which provides an array of medical and health information, both traditional
and alternative, so patients and their families can become better informed about
their illness and can then make informed decisions about the various treatment
options available to them. Picture shows librarian Deborah Scholl with a community
resident.
Photo Credit: Griffin Hospital
At Griffin Hospital, patients and their families can enjoy the talents of the
various musicians who staff the daily Arts and Entertainment Program. Shown
is musician Jim O’Mara.
Photo Credit: Courtesy David Weed, Fall River Healthy City
Coordinator The Healthy City Fall River initiative
engages local citizens in healthy activity designed to improve the quality of
life in the city.
Photo Credit: Courtesy David Weed, Fall River Healthy City
Coordinator Fall River Mayor Edward M. Lambert,
Jr., joins children as they dance at one of the City's summer festivals that
invite residents to join in healthy fun activities.
Photo Credit: Courtesy David Weed, Fall River Healthy City
Coordinator A city-sponsored walk along Fall River's
new boardwalk brings dozens of people out each year.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Foundation for Healthy Communities
Fall River Kids at the Whitefield School
walked one mile as part of New Hampshire's Foundation for Healthy Communities
"Walk NH" initiative.Feb: Connect to Compete
Photo Credit: Business Innovation
Factory Saul Kaplan, Founder and Chief Catalyst of the Business Innovation Factory.
BIF launched Rhode Island Wireless Innovation Networks (RIWINs) in 2004.
Photo Credit: Plymouth State University
Dr. Donald Wharton, president of New Hampshire’s Plymouth State University,
said broadband permitted high-quality distance learning into previously isolated
branches in Littleton, Berlin and Laconia.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Wireless Philadelphia
Philadelphia Mayor John Street at June 2004 ceremony launching the city's first
wireless neighborhood, Love Park at JFK Plaza.
Photo Credit: Leo King James
P. RePass, President & CEO of the National Corridors Initiative, waiting
on a train platform.
Photo Credit: Courtesy New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Carol Murray, New Hampshire’s reform minded Transportation
Commissioner.
Photo Credit: Courtesy New Hampshire Department of Transportation
In Meredith, NH, the state's new approach of engaging
local citizens in transportation decisions has received positive results.
Photo Credit: Courtesy New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Interstate 93 outside of Salem, New Hampshire.
Photo Credit: Courtesy New Hampshire Department of Transportation
Amtrak Downeaster at the Exeter, New Hampshire
train station.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Quonset Development Corporation
The Port of Davisville deepwater facilities located in Quonset, Rhode Island.
Photo Credit: Harbor Express
The Harbor Express ferry service provides commuters with an alternative transportation
option from Quincy and Hull to Logan Airport and downtown Boston.
Photo Credit: Courtesy ISC
Amtrak train pulling into Montpelier, Vermont train station.
Photo Credit: Courtesy ISC
Amtrak train leaving Montpelier, Vermont train station.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
Amtrak Downeaster in Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
Amtrak Downeaster in Portland, Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
Passengers boarding Amtrak Downeaster in Portland, Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
The Old Canada Road Scenic Byway in Maine, as it winds through the Kennebec
River Valley..
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
The Old Canada Road Scenic Byway in Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
The Schoodic National Scenic Byway in Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
The Schoodic National Scenic Byway in Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
Captain Henry Lee runs between Swan's Island and Bass Harbor, Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
Margaret Chase Smith ferry runs between Islesboro and Lincolnville, Maine.
Photo Credit: Courtesy Maine DOT
The CAT is a high speed service between Bar Harbor, Maine and Yarmouth, Nova
Scotia. With a crossing time of just under three hours, it saves passengers
one day of driving time.
Photo Credit: Robert Moore, Connecticut Department of Transportation
Chester-Hadlyme ferry crossing the Connecticut River.
Photo Credit: Robert Moore, Connecticut Department of Transportation
Aerial of State Pier in New London, Connecticut..
Photo Credit: Dave Rossiter, Connecticut Department of
Transportation State Pier in New London, Connecticut.
Photo Credit: Robert Moore, Connecticut Department of Transportation
Aerial of the Q Bridge in New Haven, Connecticut.
Photo Credit: Robert Moore, Connecticut Department of Transportation
Metro-North train in the New Haven station.
Photo Credit: Robert Moore, Connecticut Department of Transportation
Metro-North train in the South Norwalk station.
Photo Credit: Robert Moore, Connecticut Department of Transportation
Traffic on I-95 in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
Photo Credit: Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Boston's
new Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge was part of the Big Dig project.
Jan: Growth Gamble
Photo Credit: Cornish Associates
Mashpee Commons, which replaced a dead shopping center on Cape Cod, represents
a pioneering effort at rethinking city and town plans. A traditional New England
town center has been built that will include mixed-use neighborhoods with housing,
offices, stores, civic buildings and open space.
Photo Credit: Cornish Associates This dead shopping
center in Mashpee, Massachusetts has been transformed into a traditional New
England town center that will include mixed-use neighborhoods with housing,
offices, stores, civic buildings and open space. 
Photo Credit: John Douglas Sprawl in the Burlington,
Vermont region.
Photo Credit: Aerial from glsweetnam.com An aerial
view of Amarral Farms and Longmeadow Development, located in Pomfret, Connecticut.
Farms in this picturesque area of northeastern Connecticut are increasingly
separated by intrusions of residential development, which has been a slow, but
continual, trend in the last decade.
Photo Credit: Aerial from glsweetnam.com The Seeley-Brown
Orchard in Pomfret, a small rural town located in picturesque northeastern Connecticut,
is now a housing development.
Photo Credit: Dan Habib/The Concord MonitorNew
England’s historic town meetings have immense appeal but are insufficient to
handle the emerging new issues. Picture shows officials being sworn in at a
town meeting in Sutton, N.H. 
Photo Credit: Lee KrohnThe
heart of downtown Manchester Center, Vermont, formerly an industrial site and
a car dealership, was 'undeveloped' into a Town Green.
Photo Credit: Lee KrohnIn
the town of Manchester Center, Vermont, new design principles were applied to
this redeveloped commercial site. The design incorporated buildings close to
the street, wide public sidewalks separated from the street by greenspace, and
a narrow single access driveway to a rear yard parking lot.
Photo Credit: Lucy ChenBattle
Road Farm in Lincoln, MA. The development received national attention for
its innovative planning and design. Modeled after a 19th-century New England
farm village, the development comprises two or four townhouses, 40 percent of
which are affordable housing. TIFF brflucychen.tif
Photo Credit: Bruce MartinKeen
Development's award-winning rehabilitation of the Baker
Chocolate Factory at Dorchester Lower Mills created 133 apartments at moderate
rents. TIFF bakerchocolateriverview.tif
Photo Courtesy of Rhode Island HousingRhode Island
Housing helps low- and moderate-income Rhode Islanders find houses and apartments
they can afford, such as this row of residences in Providence. 
Photo Credit: Cornish AssociatesThe
complete rehabilitation of the Wilkenson Building has transformed it into a
premiere residential address in downtown Providence. 
Chart Source: U.S. Census Bureau for 2001-02Measure
property tax per capita and a similar story emerges: in the U.S., Connecticut
is #2, New Hampshire #3, Maine #3, Rhode Island #7, Massachusetts #8, Vermont
#9. 
Photo Credit: Providence PlanPatrick
McGuigan, head of the Providence Plan, says GIS (geographic information services)
are particularly powerful tools for use in making development and land
use decisions. The image above shows ProvPlan's Internet Map Server (IMS) application. 
Photo Credit: Orton Family FoundationGIS-based analysis
-- especially software like the CommunityViz program developed by the Orton
Family Foundation -- can help communities make better informed decisions.Dec: Opportunity New England
Photo Credit: New England Board of Higher Education
Evan Dobelle, president of the New England Board of Higher Education. In the
1950s, New England stepped crisply ahead of other American regions by agreeing
to a visionary New England Higher Education Compact and creation of a New England
Board of Higher Education (NEBHE).
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education Overwhelming percentages of high school students say they're
aiming for college, but follow 100 Connecticut 9th graders
through to college, and only 26 will graduate with an associate or bachelor's
degree within 6 years.
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education Overwhelming percentages of high school students say they're
aiming for college, but follow 100 Maine 9th graders through
to college, and only 22 will graduate with an associate or bachelor's degree
within 6 years.
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education Overwhelming percentages of high school students say they're
aiming for college, but follow 100 Massachusett 9th graders
through to college, and only 29 will graduate with an associate or bachelor's
degree within 6 years.
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education Overwhelming percentages of high school students say they're
aiming for college, but follow 100 New Hampshire 9th graders
through to college, and only 27 will graduate with an associate or bachelor's
degree within 6 years.
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education Overwhelming percentages of high school students say they're
aiming for college, but follow 100 Rhode Island 9th graders
through to college, and only 23 will graduate with an associate or bachelor's
degree within 6 years.
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education Overwhelming percentages of high school students say they're
aiming for college, but follow 100 Vermont 9th graders through
to college, and only 21 will graduate with an associate or bachelor's degree
within 6 years.
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education The white portion of the working age population in the U.S.
is declining, while the minority portion is increasing. This demographic shift
is projected to contribute to a drop in the average level of education of the
U.S. workforce over the next two decades unless states do a better job at educating
all of their residents. 
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education The white portion of the working age population in Connecticut
is declining, while the minority portion is increasing. This demographic shift
is projected to contribute to a drop in the average level of education of the
U.S. workforce over the next two decades unless the state does a better job
at educating all of their residents. 
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education The white portion of the working age population in Massachusetts
is declining, while the minority portion is increasing. This demographic shift
is projected to contribute to a drop in the average level of education of the
U.S. workforce over the next two decades unless the state does a better job
at educating all of their residents. 
Photo Credit: National Center for Public Policy and Higher
Education The white portion of the working age population in Rhode
Island is declining, while the minority portion is increasing. This
demographic shift is projected to contribute to a drop in the average level
of education of the U.S. workforce over the next two decades unless the state
does a better job at educating minorities. 
Photo Credit: Killian Court, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology MIT is a leader in providing online course material.
Photo Credit: University of Maine, Farmington Students
outside of Alumni Theatre at UMaine Farmington. Nov: Take the Offense on Energy
Photo Credit: Cameron Wake, Climate Change Research Center,
University of New Hampshire and Clean Air - Cool Planet
Photo Credit: Oyster River Biofuel Initiative
Photo Credit: Peter Vanderwarker
The Genzyme Center, located in Cambridge, Mass., received the highest
rating issued by the U.S. Green Building Council. 
Photo Credit: Peter Vanderwarker The
Genzyme Center, located in Cambridge, Mass., received the highest rating issued
by the U.S. Green Building Council. 
Photo Credit: Sandy Thomas, NESEA The Greenfield Energy Park, Greenfield, MA, opened in 1999 to
provide public education about clean energy use in a public park setting. 
Photo Credit: Peter Vanderwarker, Courtesy of Trinity Boston
Preservation Trust Trinity Church uses six environmentally
sensitive geothermal wells to heat and cool its interior. (NOTE:
The Trinity Boston
Preservation Trust website offers the press a variety of pictures of the
church and its new underground space.)
Photo Credit: None necessary Burlington, Vt., now
fills a startling 42 percent of its energy needs from renewable sources. 
Photo Credit: Mass BioFuel Mass
BioFuel is one of the pioneering distributors of a blend for home heating that's
10 or 20 percent biodiesel.
Photo Credit: ISO New England ISO The control room
at ISO New England serves as an around-the-clock watchdog/coordinator of power
flowing over the region’s 7,000 miles of electric transmission lines
Photo Credit: ISO New England The control room at
ISO New England serves as an around-the-clock watchdog/coordinator of power
flowing over the region’s 7,000 miles of electric transmission lines.
Photo Credit: Northeast Utilities Oct: Six Teams — Or One
Photo Credit: Sun Journal/Lewiston, Maine The
Androscoggin River which separates the Maine cities of Auburn (left) and Lewiston
(right) is increasingly viewed as a common tie that bonds the two. Photo was
taken during the annual Great Falls Balloon Festival. 
Photo Credit: Citistates Group New
England Futures: Dark clouds, new light? A summertime scene from Newfound Lake,
N.H. 
Graphic Credit: Citistates Group Are
there two New Englands? Yes, but not the two you think: the old notion of a
northern tier so different from everything south is yielding to a new reality.
Today’s New England is two corridors, running north to south, side by side,
rich in assets that could be combined more powerfully. Note to editors:
Please feel free to alter the graphic by adding your own city name if it's not
included.
Photo Credit: Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Boston's
new Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Bridge.
Photo Credit: Dan Habib/The Concord Monitor
Town officials are sworn in at the town meeting in Sutton, N.H. 
Photo Credit: Kevin Gutting/Daily Hampshire Gazette
From old to new New England: A workman sandblasts the exterior of One Cottage Street, Easthampton, Mass., as it's converted from an historic mill to a new center for business and the arts. 
Photo Credit: Dan Habib/Concord Monitor
Idyllic New England: An aerial photograph showing the center of Penacook, N.H., surrounded by a landscape of foliage leading to mountains to the northwest.