My current column has two smart growth/new century focuses. One is the efforts and achievements of the Funders Network for Smart Growth and Livable Communities, founded in 1999, directed by Ben Starrett and chaired by Hooper Brooks of the Surdna Foundation. The other is what appears to be a breakthrough experiment in Vermont to gather and mobilize a group of statewide environmental groups and their allies to work with joint funding, and as a cohesive group, to advance multiple smart growth agendas, especially with the state legislature. For a column version that includes detail not included in the Washington Post Writers Group published version, click here.