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- Air Quality - actions that directly or indirectly improve air quality in your community.
- Businesses - actions for engaging with green businesses and supporting sustainable economic development in your community.
- City/Tribal operations - actions that relate to internal staff operations at public facilities, with vehicle fleets, etc.
- City/Tribal purchasing - actions that relate to internal purchases for governmental operations.
- Climate actions - short-term - actions that communities can take within 5 years to combat and prepare for climate change.
- Climate adaptation & resiliency - actions that prepare communities for increasingly intense climatic events (localized flooding, increased temperatures, pressure on resources, etc.) and ensure their ability to bounce back quickly.
- Climate education & engagement - actions that promote community education, engagement, and involvement with city-scale climate planning and action.
- Climate mitigation - actions that are directly related to a decrease in local carbon emissions.
- Climate policy & programs - actions that communities can take to combat climate change through public policies and programs.
- Compost - actions that relate to back-yard or commercial organics recycling and composting.
- Efficiency - actions that improve efficiency throughout community activities, reducing emissions and wastes by optimizing systems to achieve greater productivity.
- Electric vehicles - actions that relate to electric vehicle charging infrastructure, city/tribal fleets, and public education.
- Employee engagement - actions that engage city/tribal staff and/or elected officials on sustainability efforts.
- Green infrastructure - actions that incorporates both the natural environment and engineered systems to provide clean water, conserve ecosystem values and functions, and provide a wide array of benefits to people and wildlife.
- Ordinances - actions related to the adoption of city ordinances
- Pollinators - actions related to pollinator protection, native and pollinator-friendly vegetation, and bee-keeping.
- Public education - actions that promote community education of sustainability topics.
- Public engagement - actions that promote community engagement and interaction with city/tribal sustainability efforts.
- Public health - actions that address and improve individual and community health through clean air/water/land, public safety, and active living.
- Schools - actions that partner with schools to create safe and healthy spaces for students and the community.
- Solar - actions related to solar PV/thermal/hot water/battery permitting, installation, and purchasing.
- Water conservation - actions related to reduce potable water use.
- Water quality - actions related to monitoring and improving the quality of surface and ground water.