The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT) is an independent non-profit organization that works to promote more livable and sustainable urban communities. Founded in 1978, CNT fulfills this mission by developing and applying strategies that make more efficient and productive use of the undervalued resources in and inherent advantages of the built and natural systems that together create the urban environment. CNT’s long-term goals are to increase household wealth and regional productivity; improve environmental quality; and build stronger and more equitable local economies.
CNT works across disciplines and issues—including energy, transportation, land use, climate change, air quality, health and natural resources—and engages in three primary activities:
Researching & analyzing urban problems and developing information resources, including web-based tools, to change how residents, policymakers and market actors understand and act in response to those problems.
Designing and operating demonstration projects and ventures to address those problems in innovative ways.
Building coalitions to advocate for public policies that could help solve those problems.
CNT is home to two non-profit affiliates that were launched by CNT to advance its mission:
CNT Energy, an organization that develops and implements new initiatives to help consumers and communities control energy costs and reduce energy use.
I-GO, a membership-based car sharing organization that provides hourly rental of a fleet of cars located across Chicago and, increasingly, its suburbs.
Keywords: energy, climate, transportation, community development, natural resources, green infrastructure, mapping, research, public policy
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