Resource Library
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Environmental Protection Agency
The U.S. EPA’s site offers resources on: basic information, science, Greenhouse Gas emissions inventories/overview/projections, health and environmental effects, U.S. Climate Policy, climate economics. http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
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Pew Center
The Pew Center on Global Climate Change brings together business leaders, policy makers, scientists, and other experts to bring a new approach to a complex and often controversial issue. http://www.pewclimate.org
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Provides decision-makers and others interested in climate change with an objective source of information about climate change. The IPCC’s role is to assess the latest scientific, technical and socio-economic literature produced worldwide relevant to the understanding of the risk of human-induced climate change, its observed and projected impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation. http://www.IPCC.ch/
California Energy Commission
The Energy Commission has an active role in climate change issues including: AB 32 Implementation, Greenhouse Gases Emission Standards Rulemaking, the 2006 Update to the Greenhouse Gas Inventory, CEC Climate Change Advisory Committee, California Climate Action Registry Rulemaking Proceeding, and Research into Climate Change through the Public Interest Energy Research Program and the California Climate…
CARB Portal- Scoping Plan Series
The Scoping Plan contains the main strategies California will use to reduce the greenhouse gases (GHG) that cause climate change. The Plan, when it is completed, will have a range of GHG reduction actions, which can include direct regulations, alternative compliance mechanisms, monetary and non-monetary incentives, voluntary actions, and market-based mechanisms such as a cap-and-trade…
The Missing Metric
An Economic Development Strategy for the New Normal Resources Provided by Peter Katz, Principal at Strategic Consulting Practice With the multiple crises of municipal insolvency, climate change and citizen pushback against government regulation at all levels; it makes sense to consider a new “balance-sheet” approach to granting development approvals. Such an approach would screen for…
July 16, 2013
Ten Keys To Walkable/Livable Communities
By Dan Burden, Director, Walkable Communities, Inc. The following ten items are key indicators (measures) or steps taken to achieve prosperous, walkable, healthy, livable communities.
Food Policy Councils Sow Seeds For Better Health
Oregon’s Portland/Multnomah Food Policy Council (FPC) provides research and recommendations to the city on issues relating to food practices and access.
July 17, 2013
Improving Food Security in Del Paso Heights, California
Many residents in Sacramento’s Del Paso Heights neighborhood are from cultures that value farming, but lack access to gardening space and healthy food.
July 16, 2013
Participation Tools For Better Community Planning
This guidebook provides an overview of public participation tools that can help communities plan for health-promoting land use and transportation, with a focus on lower-income, underserved communities, along with an examination of the value of resident involvement and the key principles for successful community planning. These tools are currently being used successfully in diverse communities…
July 30, 2013
Ahwahnee Principles for Smart Economic Development
Ahwahnee Principles for Smart Economic Development Book Free ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE: Download PDF
A Policymaker’s Guide to Infill Development
A Policymaker’s Guide to Infill Development Book Free ONLY AVAILABLE ONLINE Download PDF
Policymaker’s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development
Policymaker’s Guide to Transit-Oriented Development Book Free
Creating Great Neighborhoods: Density in Your Community
Projects built using smart growth principles can minimize air and water pollution, facilitate brownfields cleanup and reuse, and preserve open space. A key principle of smart growth is to use land more efficiently by building walkable, compact communities. Building great compact places with good design is not just an abstract theory — it is a…
August 6, 2013
Real Towns: Making Your Neighborhood Work
This is a handbook for real people — people who live in small towns, new suburbs or big cities; in downtown neighborhoods, historic districts or high-rise condos.
Tags: development, planning, smart growth
AB 32 Text
The bill that required the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas emissions limit equivalent to the statewide greenhouse gas emissions levels in 1990 to be achieved by 2020. http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/docs/ab32text.pdf
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July 8, 2013
CA Climate Change Portal
Background information and new releases from the Governor on Climate Change & Greenhouse Gas emissions in addition to resources and Climate Change proceedings from members of the governor’s Climate Action Team. http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/
Adaptation Strategies Across Socioeconomic and Natural Systems in Fresno and San Luis Obispo Counties
Download Fact Sheet (PDF) This fact sheet focuses on how Fresno and San Luis Obispo Counties developed a suite of regionally-specific climate change adaptation strategies that will help these counties adapt to the impacts of climate change in a way that comprehensively addresses their natural and socioeconomic systems. This Project was funded by the Kresge…
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Sonoma County: “Climate Protection Campaign”
Sonoma County’s Climate Protection Campaign features a GHG inventory report, target setting and a Community Climate Action Plan aimed at achieving the emissions target. Their Campaign also includes a White Paper which focuses on Local Actions to Address Climate Change and is comprised of a comprehensive set of technically grounded, economically feasible, and locally appropriate…
Marin County: “Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan”
The Marin County Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan provides the GHG emissions data from Marin County and an outline of activities that can help achieve the target GHG reductions set by the Climate Protection Campaign. www.co.marin.ca.us/depts/CD/Main/pdf/final_ghg_red_plan.pdf
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