Greening America’s Smaller Legacy Cities - Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

Cities throughout the world have been at the forefront of a growing movement to implement “green” initiatives. Recognizing that urban centers spew most of the planet’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, proponents of sustainable communities press for resource conservation, clean air and water, and low-carbon energy and land use practices—with the entwined goals of averting climate disaster, righting longstanding environmental injustices, and creating more safe, healthy, equitable, and prosperous places to call home.

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