Reports & Guides
- 2009 Sacramento Region Clean Energy Roundtables: Input and Ideas for Action
- A Business Guide to EPA Climate Partnership Program
- A Guide to Developing a Sustainable Food Purchasing Policy
- A Practical Guide to Cool Roofs and Cool Pavements
- A Sustainability Officer's First 100 Days: Winning Support in City Hall
- Achieving Energy Efficiency Through Weatherization
- Adaptation Strategies Guide for Water Utilities
- Adaptation Tool Kit: Sea- Level Rise and Coastal Land Use
- Addressing Your Community's Flood Problems
- Alachua County Energy Conservation Strategies Commission: Executive Summary and Final Report
- Alternative Work Schedule How-to Guide
- Appliance Bounty Program: Con Edison Utility Company
- Authentic Youth Civic Engagement: A Guide for Municipal Leaders
- Banking on Green: A Look at How Green Infrastructure Can Save Municipalities Money and Provide Economic Benefits Community-wide
- Benefits & Barriers to Electronic Waste Collection Models
- Best Management Practices for Electronic Waste
- Best Management Practices for Golf Course Water Use
- Beyond Civility: From Public Engagement to Problem Solving-- An Action Guide for City Leaders
- Bike Sharing in the United States: State of the Practice and Guide to Implementation
- Biodiesel Technical Reference Guide
- Bringing Carsharing to Your Community
- Capturing the Value of Transit
- Car Sharing Programs
- Car Sharing: A Guide for Local Planners
- Car-Sharing: Where and How It Succeeds
- Characteristics of Bus Rapid Transit for Decision-Making
- Characteristics of Canadian Environmental Practitioners 2009 (ECO Canada)
- Charrettes 101: Dynamic Planning for Community Change
- Cities Promoting Access to Healthy Local Food
- City Food Policy Programs: Lessons Harvested From an Emerging Field
- Civic Engagement and Recent Immigrant Communities: A Planning Guide for Local Officials and Other Community Leaders
- Clean Energy Financing Programs: A Decision Guide for State and Local Communities
- Clean Transportation for New York State: A Long Road Ahead
- Cleaning For Health: A Report On Indoor Environmental Quality
- Closing the Loop: Public-Private Partnerships for On-Farm Composting Programs
- Combined Heat and Power: Effective Energy Solutions for a Sustainable Future
- Community Cold-Water Wash Turnkey Implementation Manual
- Community Food Security Assessment Toolkit
- Community Garden Start-up Guide
- Community Jobs in the Green Economy
- Community Relocalization Directory: A Guide for Relocalizing our Communities
- Complete Streets Policy Analysis 2011
- Conducting a Community Energy Inventory
- Conducting Charrettes for High-Performance Buildings
- Construction & Demolition (C&D) Recycling Rebate Program, Alameda County
- Construction & Demolition (C&D) Waste Recovery Facility Certification: San Jose, CA
- Construction & Demolition Debris Recycling Program
- County Buildings: Energy Efficiency and Performance Contracting
- Creating An Environmental Sustainability Plan: A How-to Manual for Local Governments
- CREATING EQUITABLE, HEALTHY, AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES: Strategies for Advancing Smart Growth, Environmental Justice, and Equitable Development
- Creating Green Affordable Housing
- Cultivating Green Energy on Brownfields: A Nuts and Bolts Primer for Local Governments
- Cutting the Waste Stream in Half: Community Record-Setters Show How
- Deconstruction: Salvaging Yesterday's Buildings for Tomorrow's Sustainable Communities
- Designing Bus Rapid Transit Running Ways
- Developing a Sustainable Food System
- Developing Markets for Recyclable Materials
- Digital Sustainability Conversations: How Local Governments can Engage Residents Online
- Drafting "Locally Produced Food" Laws
- Driving Demand for Home Energy Improvements
- Driving: A Hard Bargain
- Energy and Water for Local Governments
- Energy Benchmarking, Rating, and Disclosure for Local Governments
- Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
- Energy Efficiency in Local Government Operations: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
- Energy Performance Contracting Manual: State of Alabama
- Energy Performance Contracting Manual: State of Florida
- Energy Performance Contracting Manual: State of North Carolina
- Energy Performance-Based Contracting Guide: U.S. Department of Energy
- Engaging Youth in Heart & Soul Community Planning
- Enterprise Green Communities Program Criteria
- Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Guide: New York City
- Extended Producer Responsibility: A Materials Policy for the 21st Century
- Feed-in Tariffs and Renewable Energy in the USA - A Policy Update
- Feeding the Hungry and Reducing Solid Waste Through Food Recovery
- Financing Stormwater Retrofits in Philadelphia and Beyond
- Financing Transit-Oriented Development (TOD): San Francisco, CA
- Fleet Vehicle Management Audit: Berkeley, CA
- Food Access Research Atlas
- Food as a Catalyst for Change
- Form-Based Codes
- Framework for an Extended Producer Responsibility System: California Integrated Waste Management Board
- Getting to Grocery: Tools for Attracting Healthy Food Retail to Underserved Neighborhoods
- Global Status Report on Local Renewable Energy Policies: ICLEI
- Green Cities: Urban Sustainability Driving America's Climate Change Policies
- Green Collar Jobs in Colorado and the U.S.
- Green Collar Jobs: Building Pathways out of Poverty
- Green Infrastructure Case Studies: Municipal Policies for Managing Stormwater with Green Infrastructure
- Green Infrastructure: Using Nature to Solve Stormwater Challenges
- Green Jobs Guidebook
- Green Prosperity: How Clean Energy Policies Can Fight Poverty and Raise Living Standards
- Green Public Procurement Training Toolkit: Introduction
- Green Recovery: Create Good Jobs and Build a Low-Carbon Economy
- Greener Pathways: Jobs and Workforce Development in a Clean-Energy Economy
- Greening Garbage Trucks: Trends in Alternative Fuel Use
- Guide for Reducing Office Waste: California Integrated Waste Management Board
- Guide for Transit-Oriented Developments (TODs)
- Guide to Conducting a Waste Diversion Study - California Integrated Waste Management Board
- Guide to Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy Financing Districts For Local Governments
- Guide to Energy Performance Contracting: Hawaii
- Guide to Planning a Volunteer Project
- Guide to Promoting Recycling of Mercury-Containing Lamps
- Guide To Sustainable Transportation Performance Measures
- Guide to Volunteer Project Evaluation
- Guide to Volunteer Project Materials Selection
- Guidebook for Building Regional Networks for Urban Sustainability 2.0
- Guidelines For Neighborhood Traffic Management: Rockville, MD
- Healthy People, Healthy Places- Building Sustainable Communities Through Active Living
- High-Performance Leasing for State and Local Governments
- Household Hazardous Waste: One-Day Collection Programs
- Housing + Transportation Affordability: El Paso, TX
- Human Dimensions of Urban Forestry and Urban Greening
- i-Tree Inventory Software
- ICLEI Municipal Clean Energy Toolkit
- Idling Reduction Programs for the Chicago Metropolitan Area
- Impervious Cover & Land Use in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
- Implementing Integrated Water Resource Planning in Your Community
- Improving Travel Efficiency at the Local Level
- Infrastructure Financing Options for Transit-Oriented Development
- Integrating Bike Share Programs Into a Sustainable Transportation System
- Introduction to Energy Performance Contracting: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- It's Easy Being Green: Chicago's Alleys Get a Makeover
- Job Description for a Sustainability Officer (SO)
- King County Climate Report
- Landfill Gas Energy: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
- Lighting Retrofit Workbook: National Park Service
- Local Government Energy Assurance Guidelines Version 2.0
- Local Greenprinting for Growth
- Local Initiatives Leverage Extended Producer Responsibility
- Local Practices in Public Engagement
- Making it Green in Minneapolis - Saint Paul
- Measuring Emissions and Creating a Greenhouse Gas Inventory
- Mitigation Banking Factsheet
- Mixed-Income Housing and the HOME Program
- Mixed-Income Transit-Oriented Development (TOD) Action Guide
- Mold Remediation in Schools & Commercial Buildings: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Municipal Materials Recovery & Composting Facility Study: New York, NY
- National Complete Streets Coalition Website
- Next Stop, Innovation: What's Ahead for Urban Mobility?
- Partnership for Sustainable Communities Brownfields Pilots: Lessons Learned Fact Sheet for Local and State Stakeholders
- Paved Over: Surface Parking Lots or Opportunities for Tax-Generating, Sustainable Development?
- Penny Wise, Pound Fuelish: New Measures of Housing + Transportation Affordability
- Planning for Agricultural Preservation: A Guide for Connecticut Municipalities
- Planning for Food Access and Community-Based Food Systems: A National Scan and Evaluation of Local Comprehensive and Sustainability Plans
- Planning for Stronger Local Democracy
- Planning to Eat? Innovative Local Government Plans and Policies to Build Healthy Food Systems in the United States
- Plug-In Electric Vehicle Handbook for Electrical Contractors
- Plug-In Electric Vehicle Handbook for Fleet Managers
- Plug-In Electric Vehicle Handbook for Public Charging Station Hosts
- Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning
- Policy Guide on Planning and Climate Change
- Powering the New Energy Future from the Ground Up: Profiles in City-Led Energy Innovation
- Preparing for Climate Change: A Guidebook for Local, Regional, and State Governments
- Promoting Urban Agriculture: Zoning
- Rainwater and Stormwater Harvesting
- Rainwater Catchment: ARCSA ASPE Standard
- Rate Structure Design: Setting Rates for a Pay-As-You-Throw (PAYT) Program
- Recovery Through Retrofit
- Relocalization Walking Tour: A Guide for Relocalizing our Communities
- Residential Retrofit Program Design Guide
- Resource Conservation and Recovery: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
- Retro-Commissioning for State and Local Governments
- Return to Vendor Policies: A Solution for Obsolete Computer Equipment
- Roadmap to Green Government Buildings
- Rooftop to Rivers II: Green strategies for controlling stormwater and combined sewer overflows
- Seeding the City: Land Use Policies to Promote Urban Agriculture
- Simple Guidelines for Lighting Regulations for Small Communities, Urban Neighborhoods, and Subdivisions: International Dark-Sky Association
- Single-Family Residential Building Weatherization Fact Sheet: U.S. Department of Energy
- Smart Grid 101 for Local Governments
- Smart Growth and Economic Success: Benefits for Real Estate Developers, Investors, Businesses and Local Governments
- Smart Growth Implementation Toolkit
- Smart Growth: A Guide to Developing and Implementing Greenhouse Gas Reduction Programs
- Solar Energy for County Facilities
- Source Water Stewardship and Assessment: Guide
- Strategic Energy Management for State and Local Governments
- Strategies for Waste Reduction of Construction & Demolition (C&D) Debris: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Suggested Lighting Zones for Codes and Ordinances: International Dark-Sky Association
- Sustainable Business Action Plan (Preliminary Report): Berkeley, CA
- Sustainable Cities: Best Practices for Renewable Energy & Energy Efficiency
- Sustainable Cities: Ten Steps Forward
- Sustainable Connections: Linking Sustainability and Economic Development Strategies
- Sustainable Connections: Strategies to Support Local Economies
- Sustainable Design and Green Building Toolkit for Local Governments: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Taking the Red Tape Out of Green Power: How to Overcome Permitting Obstacles to Small Scale Distributed Renewable Energy
- Teaming Up to Save Energy: ENERGY STAR
- The Affordability Index: A New Tool For Measuring the Affordability of a Housing Choice
- The Dollars and Sense of Green Retrofits
- The Value of Green Infrastructure: A Guide to Recognizing Its Economic, Environmental and Social Benefits
- Toolkit for Professional Development of Local Government Sustainability Directors
- Traffic Calming Guide: Sebastopol, CA
- Transit-oriented Development (TOD): Oregon Program Process and Examples
- Transit-Oriented Development: National Examples and Best Practices
- Transportation Control Measures: An Information Document for Developing and Implementing Emissions Reductions Programs
- Transportation Control Measures: Commute Alternative Incentives
- Tree Identification
- Tree Inventory Volunteer Training Manual
- Turnkey Implementation Manual: Municipal Employee Computer and Monitor Shutdown Program
- U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement
- U.S. Metro Economies: Current & Potential Green Jobs
- Upgrade Your Infrastructure: A Guide to the Green Infrastructure Portfolio Standards and Building Stormwater Retrofits
- Urban Agriculture - Best Practices and Possibilities
- Urban Drainage & Flood Control BMP Monitoring Sites
- Urban Forests: Mental, Physical, and Social Health Benefits
- Urban Freeway Removal
- Value Chain Approaches to a Low Carbon Economy
- Vibrant Cities and Urban Forests: A National Call to Action
- Waste Characterization Guide: California Integrated Waste Management Board (CIWMB)
- Waste Diversion and Disposal by Industry
- Waste Reduction: Strategies for Cities
- Water Damage Cleanup and Mold Prevention Table: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Water Harvesting Guidance Manual: Tucson, AZ
- Watershed Protection
