Best practices for engaging with green businesses and supporting sustainable economic development in your community.
Publicize, promote and use the varied businesses/services collecting and marketing used, repaired and rental consumer goods, especially electronics, in the city/county.
Adopt a sustainable building policy for private buildings; include the SB 2030 energy standard; adopt language governing new development projects that:
Require, build or facilitate at least four sustainability attributes in a business/industrial park project:
Achieve higher intensity commercial/industrial land uses through at least one of the following strategies:
Require new developments or redevelopments to prepare a travel demand management plan or transit-oriented development standards or LEED for Neighborhood Development certification.
Improve smart-salting by reducing chloride use in winter maintenance and dust suppressants to prevent permanent surfacewater and groundwater pollution.
Grow new/emerging green businesses and green jobs through targeted assistance and new workforce development.
Promote sustainable tourism in your city, and green tourism resources to tourism and hospitality businesses in/around the city.
Increase walking, biking and transit use by one or more of the following means:
