Green Minds Think Alike
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.
Read MoreSustainability Workplace Challenge
This project is collaboratively developing a sustainable business challenge for ten communities to implement.
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 MoreWorkplace Challenge
The concept for the municipal workplace challenge stems from the Mayor Karl Dean’s Mayor’s Workplace Challenge started in Nashville.
Read MorePublic Engagement Tools
The “Charge Ahead Durham” initiative increased community awareness and involvement in sustainable activity by engaging the public in weekly online challenges, or “charges.”
Read MoreUrban Agriculture
Urban agriculture can range from rooftop gardens to large-scale brownfield site or vacant lot reuses.
Read MoreEducation vs. Social Marketing
A team from Mecklenburg County’s Land Use and Environmental Services Agency (LUESA) put Doug McKenzie‐Mohr’s behavior modification theory to the test by developing a “lights out” campaign for County employees. McKenzie‐Mohr’s “Community Based Social Marketing” (CSBM) is considered an attractive alternative to information‐based campaigns.
Read MorePROFILE: Emily Barrett, Sustainability Officer, Cary, NC
Emily Barrett of Cary, NC is big on collaboration and sharing to advance southeast sustainability.
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.
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