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Climate Change | Green Building

This guide aims to help community-member staffed environmental committees in Minnesota advance sustainability goals. It explains the role of environmental advisory groups, highlights climate actions communities in Minnesota have taken already, and summarizes a wide range of sustainability issues for participants to consider as they review development proposals. It concludes with two short case studies to illustrate how and why the work of these committees is important.

Improving Development Review

This guide aims to help community-member staffed environmental committees in Minnesota participate more effectively in local development review processes. It highlights issues for these committees to potentially address and uses case studies to illustrate the potential for meaningful change and the risks associated with ignoring this potential.