Call for Information

APA and the Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI) are currently looking for planning documents and related publications that address energy issues, to create a collection of best practices that make the connection between energy and planning. Planners have a real opportunity to effect change on a wide variety of subjects through their strategic position as advisors to policy makers in town, city, county, and regional governments.

Specifically we are seeking the following types of documents and published materials (examples in parentheses):

• long-range visioning documents/blueprints/goals and objectives
• local plans (comprehensive, neighborhood, regional; housing, transportation, economic development; energy, climate change; water supply management)
• development management tools (zoning regulations, subdivision regulations, design guidelines)
• public investment tools (capital improvements program, general fund, financial revitalization tools)
• local policies
• built development projects

that address the following energy topics:

• energy efficiency
• renewable energy
• solar access
• fair share siting of alternative energy facilities
• climate change
• greenhouse gas emissions/reduction
• VMT reduction strategies
• green building/LEED
• heat island reduction
• ozone reduction
• particulate matter reduction
• municipal energy strategies (clean fleets, efficient lighting, LCD traffic signals, etc.)
• specific renewable energy sources or alternative technologies:
  passive solar, solar thermal, wind, geothermal, biomass, ethanol, biodiesel, hydropower, landfill methane gas recovery, cogeneration (or combined heat and power), and distributed generation

Please send information (documents or links to web-based materials) to energy@planning.org.