Greenbelt Alliance’s newest publication, Green Your City’s Blueprint: A Toolkit for Climate-Friendly General Plans, provides local advocates with clear instructions to change a general plan to be more climate-friendly.

Saturday, January 30, Executive Director Jeremy Madsen will share Greenbelt Alliance’s Grow Smart Bay Area vision at the annual Bay Area League Day hosted by the League of Women Voters.

“There is no way to reverse climate change without going after how we get around…There is a way to put in more housing while maintaining the character of these towns.”

KLIV radio looks at true green development in Silicon Valley. “Really what it all comes down to is if you still can only get to that place by driving, then how green is it really? You still have that carbon footprint that comes from living a car-oriented life.”

An editorial in the San Jose Mercury News urges everyone to make the land use-climate change connection: “…how we lay out the streets, how close together we place the homes — affects global warming.”

The Greenbelt Alliance Climate Change Toolkit offers a way to fight climate change using local General Plans. You’ll find sample language and policies that can be incorporated into city plans.