PROFILE: Mary Pat Baldauf, Sustainability Manager, Columbia, SC
Mary Pat Baldauf has always take on life’s surprises and challenges with a positive outlook and dedication to overcome them.
Read MoreSustainability Workplace Challenge
This project is collaboratively developing a sustainable business challenge for ten communities to implement.
Read MoreEquity and Energy Collaboration
This project provides a library of resource materials that address the issues, challenges and opportunities of energy equity for our low income communities.
Read MoreCASE STUDY: Innovation in Equity and Energy Efficiency
SSDN members participated in a project that used energy efficiency as a framework to more deeply understand how to incorporate equity goals into sustainability programs and initiatives.
Read MoreCommunity Based Social Marketing
The Community-Based Social Marketing (CBSM) method of outreach and education was created to produce lasting and sustainable changes in the actions people take everyday.
Read MoreSustainable Fleet Management
Department directors are familiar with choosing operating and capital options that represent cost savings, but not necessarily with making choices that also consider environmental and community health. These basic steps outline how to approach your Fleet Director, and develop a mutually beneficial relationship:
Read MoreCommunity Engagement
Good relationships with community stakeholders, such as neighborhoods and community development groups, can improve local government decision-making, legitimacy and overall community competitiveness.
Read MoreSustainable Funding
Securing funding for sustainability projects can be a daunting task. Local government too often must devote the bulk of its resources to projects that are long overdue, leaving little or nothing for proactive projects.
Read MoreWorkplace Challenge
The concept for the municipal workplace challenge stems from the Mayor Karl Dean’s Mayor’s Workplace Challenge started in Nashville.
Read MorePROFILE: Nick Deffley, Sustainability Officer, Savannah, GA
Despite growing up and going to school in the Midwest at the University of Minnesota, Savannah has always felt like a home away from home for Nick Deffley. Much of Nick’s family relocated to Savannah over the years and Nick even lived in Savannah for short period of time in the late 1990s.
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