Blueprint for Urban Sustainability: Integrating Sustainable Energy Practices into Metropolitan Planning

This comprehensive resource guide contains effective sustainable energy policies, plans and programs currently in use by metropolitan communities across the nation. Specifically, the guide describes:

• A practical methodology for sustainable energy planning
• Clean energy generation technologies
• Energy efficiency practices for residential, commercial, industrial, institutional, governmental and transportation sectors
• Municipal CO₂ reduction programs
• Basic economic analysis of clean energy technologies
• Alternative financing for municipal sustainability programs
• Emerging and future technologies for energy generation, distribution and use.

The guide also contains (1) recommended roles for key community organizations to play in the implementation of policies, plans and programs, and (2) municipal program contacts to encourage self-initiated, city-to-city assistance exchanges.

Document number GRI-04/0040 — Purchase report

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