Green Your City’s Blueprint: A Toolkit for Climate-Friendly General Plans provides local advocates with clear instructions to change a general plan to be more climate-friendly and the tools to succeed.
The toolkit explains the basic structure of a general plan, and then describes specific language you can ask city staff to insert in each element. It provides step-by-step instructions for working with city staff and leaders.
Download Green Your City’s Blueprint. (PDF, 32 pp, February 2011)
At a time when communities are reeling from the devastating impacts of destructive fires and losing insurance protections, a solution is needed now more than ever. Greenbelt Alliance offers a new, creative intervention for fire-prone areas statewide to adopt.
Your go-to guide with key resources and a roadmap to community disaster resilience.
The Bay Area is at a tipping point in its relationship to wildfire. There is huge potential for the region, and other places across the Western US, to accelerate greenbelts as critical land-use tools to bolster wildfire resilience.
