SSDN Members are Ready for 100

Aerial image of people standing in a pattern to create the message "100 Mayors love 100% Clean Energy"

Despite a reversal in policies around fighting climate change at the federal level, cities and counties across the nation are declaring that they are still committed to clean energy.

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Green Minds Think Alike

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In these peer-to-peer interviews, Kris Stenger, Sustainability Director at the City of Winter Park, Florida, has a series of conversations with SSDN members at the 2017 Annual Meeting in Durham, NC.

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PROFILE: Nick Deffley, Sustainability Officer, Savannah, GA

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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Better Buildings Challenge

The better buildings challenge in Atlanta, Georgia, and SSDN

In 2012, the President challenged all sectors to commit to an energy savings pledge, a showcase building, and sharing progress. Two communities in the Southeast signed on.

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Partnership 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.

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Green Infrastructure

Green infrastructure in Tennesee and Georgia

Green Infrastructure (GI) is more than just the laundry list of sustainable applications, like green roofs, bigger tree planters, and frequent curb cuts.

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