Programs
Air Quality
- Promoting innovative transportation and renewable energy projects to reduce emissions
Awareness & Education
- Bringing information about sustainable practices to the region through education and outreach
Local Food & Green Living
- Promoting local agriculture, sustainable living, and active lifestyles
Green Business
- A network of businesses committed to sustainability
Green Schools
- Teaching earth-friendly practice and helping area schools to Go Green - with real results
Green Growth
- Promoting coordinated and cooperative regional planning
Recycling & Waste Reduction
- Promoting solid waste reduction, reuse, and recycling
Green Growth
Green Growth Toolbox
The Green Growth Toolbox is a technical assistance tool designed by the NC Wildlife Resources Commission to help communities conserve high quality habitats alongside new homes, workplaces, and shopping centers.
The toolbox will help communities plan for growth in a way that will conserve their natural assets—fish, wildlife, plants, streams, forests, fields, and wetlands - for current and future generations.
More information on the Green Growth Toolbox can be found by visiting their website at www.ncwildlife.org/greengrowth.
Sustainable Sandhills is partnering with the NC Sandhills Conservation Partnership to provide training and support for the Green Growth Toolbox to local government planners and officials in the Sandhills Region.
In 2010, daylong Green Growth Toolbox training workshops were provided to planners and other interested parties in both Moore County and Harnett County. In 2012, an introductory Green Growth Toolbox workshop was given in Cumberland County. For more information on the Green Growth Toolbox, please contact Brooke Massa, NCWRC Piedmont Land Conservation Biologist at brooke.massa@ncwildlife.org.
More information on the workshops given in Moore and Harnett Counties in 2010 can be found by clicking here.
Land Suitability Map Project
Sustainable Sandhills received a STAR (Science to Achieve Results) Program grant from the US EPA's Collaborative Network for Sustainability in 2005. The resulting three-year project engaged the region's planning, development and conservation communities in the design of a GIS-based land use decision support tool. The Tool is intended to enhance each local community’s ability to assess the implications of their land use priorities and decisions. Click here to read more!
Thanks in part to a grant from the NC Interagency Leadership Team, Release 2 of the Land Suitability Maps is complete and was introduced to the region at a series of workshops in the Fall of 2010..
For more information about Release 2 and the workshop series , CLICK HERE!
Resources
- NC Dept. of Transportation
- North Carolina Public Transportation Association
- Federal Highway Administration
- Federal Transit Administration
- American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials
- American Planning Organization
- Association of Metropolitan Planning Organizations
- Fayetteville Area Metropolitan Planning Organization
- National Transportation Library
Greenways and Open Space
- North Carolina Parks and Recreation Trust Fund
- North Carolina Rail-Trails Rail-to-Trail Program Information
- North Carolina State University Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering
- Rails-to-Trails Conservancy’s Trails and Greenways Clearinghouse
- Triangle J Council of Governments “Triangle Greenprint Project”
- Trust for Public Land’s “Local Greenprinting for Growth”
Regional Planning Organizations