While people young and old are preparing to go off to college, I’ve been steeped in “college education” all summer long! I’ve spent a great deal of this summer perusing the website’s of colleges and universities all across the continent in search of resolutions, policies and programs to add to GreenPRO.
If you think about it, [...]
Comments(0) When GreenPRO was first begun, most entries merely featured a brief description plus a link to the original source. However, as we moved forward, we began to realize that we needed to provide more information. Therefore, the decision was made to include all the text of the specific legislation or policy (as long [...]
Read More..>> Comments(1) Gandhi once said, “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.” With this idea in mind, I decided today to look for local legislation that embodied this sentiment.
While I’ve certainly found quite a few resolutions and ordinances that deal with your run-of-the-mill animal [...]
Comments(37) Since October 2007, I’ve spent far more time than the average person studying local government websites. Too many of them make it downright difficult to find things. They feature broken links and dead end pages. They make mention of some wonderful progressive programs, policies, ordinances and resolutions, but I’ve been thwarted time [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) If you’ve ever taken a look at the Notable Cities category (Noted Cities in Canada), it’s easy to discern that each one — with the exception of Taos, NM — represents a large metropolitan area. This may lead one to think that the size of the city is what matters most, that large metro [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) I spend a great deal of my time visiting governmental websites. In many cases, I don’t have to look very hard for innovative and cutting edge initiatives as the site trumpets what the particular community is up to. There are other sites that need a bit of digging to uncover the gems of [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) With only 1,000 entries in the GreenPRO database, it’s not uncommon for me to find the first such listing of a particular program, resolution or specific topic. It is, however, uncommon to find two firsts in one locale! Tonight, while visiting the City of Rochester, MN website, I learned about the city’s Early [...]
Read More..>> Comments(0) Today I ran across a term I’d never heard of before — “greenprint”. It’s a play on the word “blueprint”, albeit from a green angle. I discovered it while perusing the site for Blue Earth County, MN — see “Blue Earth County, MN Creating a Greenprint for Tomorrow“.
According to the Minnesota Sustainable [...]
Comments(1) From time to time, I run across information that — while interesting — doesn’t genuinely fit in the GreenPRO database. Tonight, I came across an effort by a nonprofit organization that intersects with several California universities: The Alliance to Save Energy’s “Green Campus” program.
Here’s some brief information from their website:
Our nation’s institutions of higher [...]
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GreenPRO is a great resource for activists, officeholders, staff, and researchers. It’s the best resource fo finding out what policies are already out there being used. Staff and officeholders can see if an existing ordinances suits your needs, and can follow up by contacting people [...]
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