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Sustainable Oregon Toolkit

This toolkit was developed by the Oregon Sustainability Board, as part of their charge from Governor Kulongoski's executive order. The toolkit is currently under development — please check back on a monthly basis for new content in other topic areas.

Top Strategies to Make Communities and Government More Sustainable

Governmental agencies that pursue sustainability endeavor to simultaneously improve the health of their economy, their community and the environment. This site provides advice and best practices for the most powerful strategies. This site provides links to best practices, policies and programs. Browse through these strategies, pick one to work on, and then come back to select another.

Sustainability strategies with the biggest impact

The following chart lists the top sustainability strategies cities and counties can take and shows the primary benefits each should provide. Because everything is interconnected, every strategy can impact all the benefits listed in columns below. We have shown with X’s the primary benefits for each strategy. These are only general guidelines as arguments could be made to add or delete X’s. Click on any strategy to learn more about it and get links to best practices (policies and programs.)