The City of Roanoke, VA was recently recognized by the Department of Energy for its efforts as part of the Better Buildings Challenge. The Better Buildings Challenge seeks to lead...
The rate of Denver’s growth is one of the highest in the nation. With this growth has come benefits, such as an extremely low unemployment rate and a strong economy....
The 2018 Global Climate Action Summit (GCAS) just took place in San Francisco. One key focus area was a commitment to “constructing and renovating buildings to be ‘net zero,’ which...
With major changes in farming and food systems in the past century, the Interactivity Foundation recently published a discussion guide around rural communities and possible future directions with policy implications....
On September 23rd, as part of the 104th ICMA Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, 29 communities received Special Recognition Awards for their incredible work in lowering the cost of going...
While building climate resilience is a key goal of many small-medium sized communities, they often don’t have capacity or resources to develop their climate resilience plans. Many recognize that these...
A press release from SolSmart, The Solar Foundation and ICMA CONTACT: Avery Palmer, The Solar Foundation, (202)-866-0908, apalmer@solarfound.org John Keaten, Group Gordon, (212)-784-5701, jkeaten@groupgordon.com “SolSmart” Communities in 35 states are...
While building climate resilience is a key goal of many small-medium sized communities, they often don’t have the funding needed to hire a consultant to develop their climate resilience plans....
Louisville received the SolSmart Gold designation for removing obstacles to solar energy development, including creating an online permitting checklist, reviewing local zoning codes, allowing solar by-right accessory use, cross-training inspection...
