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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
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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.

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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

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Greenways and Open Space

 

Regional Planning Organizations

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