Buildings
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act Energy Programs in Virginia
Outlines the money available for energy efficiency initiatives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act in Virginia. Some of the activities are listed that are eligible to receive money.
Performance Contracting
Discusses the benefits of energy services performance contracting and how to go about implementing one.
Green & Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Legislation (April 16, 2008)
Specific legislation to become LEED certified in Virginia.
Green Incentive Binder
Looks at many different green building initiatives offered by governments and determined which ones were most effective. Prepared b y the National Association of Industrial and Office Propoerties.
Businesses
Developing a Sustainable Procurement Policy
Discusses how and why a business should deal with buying green products for their office use.
Green Office Practices
Specifics of what the George Washington Regional Commission is doing to try and become a more ecologically conscious business.
Links:
This site has many free downloadable handbooks that help businesses, farms, and buildings go green.
Cities and Counties
Cheasepeake Bay Foundation Audit of Local Comprehensive Plan
A test you can give to your local community government to determine how ecologically conscious they are in their development.
Cool Counties Program Template
A local government pledge to promote sustainable development, with particular attention to greenhouse gas emissions. It goes through many aspects of sustainable development so that governments can determine how proactive they are being on the issue. Eventually this document may be taken, revised, and turned into a best practices manual.
Cool Cities Guide
By the Sierra Club, this is a resource guide to help cities become green, providing green success stories and ideas, particularly on how to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Green Infrastructure Strategy
Discusses the water problems that have been caused by turning once permeable land into impermeable surfaces such as pavement and buildings. It then gives the policies dealing with green infrastructure development.
Stafford County's Green Initative - Spring 2008
This document goes through Stafford County’s strategy to become a green community and how it is dealing with emissions, recycling, water quality, and energy use.
The Procura+ Manual
How a community can help to become more ecologically friendly through what it buys and how it handles many of its public services such as transportation, cleaning and maintenance, electricity, food, and construction.
Strategy for a Sustainable Rockville
How Rockville, Maryland is becoming a greener community and how they are going to promote similar actions in residents and businesses.
Green Government
Composite Green Government Assessment Outline
A composition of all different strategies on how to make your community greener through improvements in areas such as energy, transportation, and building.
Green Government Challenge Final Survey
An assessment of how well your community is going green. It lets you score each suggestion listed in the Composite Green Govt Assessment so you can see where improvements are needed.
VML Green Government Challenge
Another form of the same assessment for the Green Govt Challenge.
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"This project was funded, in part, by the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program at the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality through Grant # NA09NOS419 of the U.S. Department of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, under the Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972, as amended. |
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