Enhancing Sustainability in Small Southern Communities
Every day, we have the opportunity to hear about our members’ innovative projects, recent successes, and exciting ambitions for building and implementing sustainability in their communities. Through our Workgroups, committees, surveys, trainings, and more, we also have the pleasure of receiving valuable feedback from our members about how their participation at SSDN continues to broaden…
Read MoreSSDN 2019 Annual Report
2019 was a year of building, a year of trying new things, and experimenting with creative opportunities to meet the network’s strategic planning goals.
Read MorePROFILE: Nina Morgan, Birmingham, AL
Nina Morgan grew up in Sipsey, a small rural town in Central Alabama that is positioned at the southernmost foothills of the Appalachian region.
Read MoreConnections Create a More Sustainable Tennessee Valley
Tennessee and Alabama local governments are building relationships with TVA to improve energy efficiency, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and work toward alternative power sources.
Read More2017 Southeast Sustainable Communities Fund invests $1.5M across six Southeast communities.
Grantees will implement projects that build equitable local solutions to climate change.
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 MorePartnership for Resilience and Planning (PREP)
This project launched the Partnerships for Resilience and Empowered Planning (PREP) program to provide education on community resilience planning, promote network collaboration and to developed an online Community Resilience Planning Handbook for communities across the Southeast.
Read MoreImproving Recycling Through Social Marketing
This project will guide the eight participating communities through planning, development, and implementation of a community-based social marketing (CBSM) campaign by providing expert-level educational resources that are tailored to serve the specific goals and needs of each community.
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