Placemaking is an effort to reimagine public spaces as areas that help strengthen a community's relationship to its surroundings. It involves a civic approach to planning, design and management by capitalizing on a local community's assets and potential. 

In addition to trying to prevent the acceleration of climate change, we’ve got to adapt to it. Resiliency is about that adaptation, about building structures and systems able to withstand those “once every hundred year” storms that come with increasing frequency.

Solar energy is a clean, abundant and free alternative to fossil fuels. The diminishing cost of solar arrays, combined with innovative financing, is helping make photovoltaic installations both environmentally and economically smart.

Stormwater runoff is a principal cause of urban waterway pollution nationwide, fouling rivers, lakes, beaches, and drinking water supplies. To reduce the environmental and public health threats posed by polluted stormwater and to comply with the Clean Water Act, cities nationwide are making significant investments to reduce stormwater runoff.

Attend one of International Parking Institute (IPI)’s upcoming training sessions on August 15 or September 27, and become a Parksmart Advisor. Parksmart is the world’s only rating system defining and recognizing sustainable practices in parking structure management, programming, design and technology. Parksmart Advisors lead clients through the certification process for sustainable parking structures.

“Human mobility has always been an intrinsic part of human development,” emphasizes a United Nations report on human development. “Human mobility plays a central role in global and local processes of social, economic and political change: it is both molded by and helps to mold these global transformations.”

At USGBC, one important goal of our vision is promoting sustainable mobility around the world. We believe that parking and sustainability are not mutually exclusive concepts. We say that every story about a green building is a story about people, and every story about parking is a story about the connection between people and the planet.