You're making positive steps toward a sustainable community. Why not take it to the next level with a formal sustainability plan? Having a formal plan will help ensure that all stakeholders are working together to achieve the sustainability goals that are most important to the community. If you browsed the Ideas page, you know there are a lot of aspects to sustainability. With so much to think about, how can your community create a plan easily and effectively? Why not stand on the shoulders of leaders in the field?
MORPC's Regional Sustainability Agenda includes 23 objectives tailored to address the most pressing sustainability needs of the Central Ohio region.
Upper Arlington added a section on sustainability to their master plan in 2013. Their plan features a conservative, pragmatic approach tailored to a built-out inner-ring suburb.
Clintonville is another inner-ring suburb that is similar to Whitehall. This sustainability plan offers many pragmatic short-term ideas, as well as strategic actions to produce more effective planning in the long run.
After more than a decade of progress and refinement, the Columbus "Green Memo" provides a mature and comprehensive set of sustainability objectives for a Central Ohio city. It is also chock full of useful facts and statistics.
Harvard's sustainability plan provides good examples of steps institutions can take to make their operations more sustainable. They list measurable, achievable goals that could easily be adapted by other organizations.
The Green Plus guide is not a plan, but rather a set of process recommendations for organizations that want to develop their own plans. Follow these best practices to create a plan that is comprehensive, well-tailored, and measurable.