Sustainability's New Normal: Capturing Multiple Benefits

摘要

More than 65 years ago Mahatma Gandhi said, "The future depends on what you do today." And more recently teenage poet Mattie Stepanek observed, "Even though the future seems far away, it is actually beginning right now." When local agencies adopt programs and policies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and adapt to the long-term impacts of climate change or implement policies to conserve energy, water and other resources, they are looking beyond today and into the future. In doing so, they also realize multiple benefits from their actions.