Tools & resources

Transportation

• Green Highway Partnership - Collaborating for Progress (PDF)
• Green Highway Partnership - Recycle and Reuse (PDF)
• Green Highway Partnership - Watershed-Based Stormwater Management (PDF)

SUSTAINABILITY

• New Executive Order on Sustainability (PDF)
• Santa Monica Sustainable City Plan (PDF)
• Sustainable Atwood - Madison, WI
• Sustainable Tompkins - Ithaca, NY
• Whistler 2020 (PDF)
• Whistler 2020 - Descriptions of Success (PDF)
• Whistler 2020 - Strategies (PDF)

SUSTAINABILITY INDICATORS

• Draft Minneapolis Indicators (PDF)
• Smart Communities - Measuring Progress
• Washington, DC - Sustainability Indicators
• Jacksonville, FL - Sustainability Indicators
• Minneapolis, MN - Sustainability Indicators
• EPA - Green Communities - Indicators
• Sustainable Measures - Guide to Sustainability Indiciators
• Redefining Progress - About Sustainability Indicators

AGRICULTURE AND GARDENING

• Community Gardens

ZERO NET ENERGY

• Lancaster's Zero Net Energy Townhomes
• Zero Net Energy: Policies and Projects

CLIMATE CHANGE

• Carbon Footprint of Water
• Urban Planning Tools for Climate Change Mitigation (PDF)
• City of Portland, OR Climate Action Plan (PDF)
• Mpowering Madison
• Moving Cooler: An Analysis of Transportation Strategies for Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Governor's Task Force on Global Warming
• Wisconsin's Bill to Reduce Greenhouse Gases, Increase Energy Effieciency and Renewable Energy (PDF)
• Wisconsin Legislative Council's Description of the Climate Change Legislation (PDF)
• Wisconsin Legislative Council's Overview of the Climate Change Legislation (PDF)
• Wisconsin Legislative Council's Topical Index of the Climate Change Legislation (PDF)

STORM WATER

• Groundwater Foundation
• Rain Gardens

GREEN BUILDING

• Green Buildings Next Frontier
• Green Cities CA
• Portland, OR Establishes Eco-Districts
• 20 Minute Neighborhoods (PDF)
• Water Independence Case Study (PDF)
• Assessing Green Building Performance: A Post Occupancy Evaluation of 12 GSA Buildings. July 2008 (PDF)
• CoStar Study Finds Energy Star, LEED Bldgs. Outperform Peers
• CoStar Study Finds Energy Star, LEED Bldgs. Outperform Peers - PowerPoint Presentation (PDF)
• Cost of Green Revisited- 2007 Study (PDF)
• Doing Well by Doing Good? Green Office Buildings (PDF)
• Government Green Building Programs Inventory
• Some Buildings Not Living Up to Green Label
• The Green Tragedy: LEED's Lost Decade

GREEN JOBS and economic development

• Cool Business Program
• E Waste Recycling Program
• NYC Green Collar Jobs Roadmap
• Portland Plan
• Portland Plan - Economic Development

REPORTS

• Environmental Report Cards

ORGANIZATIONS

• Sustain Dane