Index
- Acid Rain Program
- Active transport
- Advanced Research and Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
- Air quality programs
- All of the above energy policy
- American Clean Energy and Security Act
- American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)
- American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA)
- Amtrak Acela Express
- Apocalypse fatigue
- Arizona
- Austin, Texas
- Australia
- Ball, Jeffrey
- Baltimore
- Bassett, Ellen
- Bernanke, Ben
- Biedenkopf, Katia
- Bike-share programs
- Bloomberg, Michael
- Bogota, Colombia
- BP
- Brain-based economy
- Breyer, Stephen
- Brownfield redevelopment
- Building codes
- Building emissions
- Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS)
- Burns, Steven
- California
- Canada
- Cap and trade
- in European Union
- as market-based tool
- regional systems
- Carbon credits
- Carbon taxes
- Carson, Rachel
- Carve outs
- CDP
- C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
- Chandas, Vivek
- China:
- corporate sustainability reporting
- energy demand
- feed-in tariff programs
- fuel economy standards
- green banks
- high-speed rail
- investment in research
- Christie, Chris
- Cincinnati
- Cities, sustainable. See also Local-level policy
- Citizens Climate Lobby
- Citizen engagement
- Clean Air Act (CAA)
- Clean-energy technology
- Clean Water Act
- Cleveland
- Climate adaptation plans
- Climate change
- Americans’ view of
- coalitions addressing
- denial of
- local impacts of
- politics of
- Climategate
- Climate policies
- sub-national
- and transition to sustainability
- Transportation and Climate Initiative
- Climate Progress
- Cohen, Steven
- Colorado
- Columbia, Wisconsin
- Combined sewer systems
- Commoner, Barry
- Community design
- Composting
- Congestion charging
- Congress, U.S.
- Connecticut
- Consumer purchasing behavior
- Consumption
- Copenhagen, Denmark
- Copenhagen Climate Summit for Mayors
- Corbett, Tom
- Corfee-Morlot, Jan
- Corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards
- Corporate sustainability
- Cultural shift
- Cuomo, Andrew
- Dahl, Arthur Lyon
- Deepwater Horizon oil spill
- Delaware
- Denmark
- Denver
- Department of Defense (DOD)
- Department of Energy (DOE)
- Department of the Interior (DOI)
- Deregulation
- De Sousa, Christopher
- Developing world, transfer of technology to
- Dow Jones Sustainability Index
- Dunlap, Riley E.
- Earth observation resources
- Economic stimulus programs
- Economy
- brain-based
- public policy for
- renewable energy
- sustainability as growth driver
- Eimicke, Bill
- Eisenhower, Dwight D.
- Electric vehicles (EVs)
- Emissions
- and building codes
- and cap and trade
- Emissions policy (federal):
- cap and trade
- emissions from federal agencies/activities
- Emissions policy (local):
- building emissions
- vehicle emissions
- Emissions policy (state)
- fuel efficiency
- regional cap and trade systems
- Transportation and Climate Initiative
- Energy costs
- Energy demand
- Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE)
- Energy efficiency resource standards (state)
- Energy efficiency standards
- Energy infrastructure
- Energy policies (local)
- Energy policies (state)
- energy efficiency resource standards
- feed-in tariffs
- and financial tools/mechanisms
- fuel efficiency
- for infrastructure
- regional cap-and-trade systems
- regulations and standards
- renewable portfolio standards
- Energy policy (federal):
- all-of-the-above
- clean-energy technology
- electrification of vehicle transportation
- fossil fuel industry support
- fracking
- smart grid
- Energy subsidies
- Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) metrics
- Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
- Environmentalism
- Environmental movement
- Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- Environmental protection/preservation
- regulatory processes and enforcement
- in sustainability management
- Environmental services
- Erie Canal
- Europe:
- feed-in tariff programs
- high-speed rail in
- water usage and wastewater tax
- European Union (EU):
- corporate sustainability reporting in
- fuel economy standards
- investment in research
- procurement in
- European Union Emission Trading System (EU ETS)
- Eurostar
- E-ZPass system
- Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
- Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)
- Federal-level policy
- all-of-the-above energy policy
- cap and trade
- electrification of vehicle transportation
- fossil fuel industry support
- high speed rail
- and increasing partisanship in Washington
- infrastructure
- market-based tools
- promise of
- public investment and spending
- regulations and standards
- regulatory capture
- regulatory failure
- smart grid
- taxes
- Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
- Federal Water Pollution Control Act
- Feed-in tariffs (FITs)
- Financial tools/mechanisms (state)
- green banks
- on-bill financing
- property-assessed clean energy
- public benefit funds
- tax credits, rebates, and subsidies
- Finland
- Flanagan, Constance A.
- Florida
- Forest Service
- Fossil fuels
- Frameworks:
- for measuring sustainability
- for public policy
- France
- Fuel economy/efficiency
- Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident
- Functional matching
- General Electric (GE)
- Generally-accepted sustainability metrics
- Germany
- Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
- Goldwater, Barry
- Gore, Al
- Governance metrics
- Government, see Public sector
- Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Green banks
- Green economy, measuring
- Green GDP
- “Green Guides,”
- Greenhouse gases. See also Emissions
- Green infrastructure (water)
- Green jobs
- Greenshaw, Katie
- Green taxes
- Grey infrastructure
- Grid standards
- “Harvesters,”
- Hawaii
- Hayward, Steven F.
- Hewlett-Packard
- High speed rail
- Homes for the Homeless
- Homer, Alaska
- Homsy, George
- Houston
- Hydraulic fracturing (fracking)
- Income inequality
- India
- Indicators. See also Sustainability metrics
- Indices of sustainability
- Industrial ecology
- Industry-specific standards
- Infrastructure funding
- Infrastructure policies (federal)
- Infrastructure policies (local):
- EV infrastructure
- water infrastructure
- Infrastructure policies (state)
- energy infrastructure
- water and wastewater infrastructure
- Integrated reporting
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
- International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives (ICLEI)
- International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC)
- Investment and spending:
- in clean-energy technology
- for green infrastructure
- in infrastructure
- private, incentives for
- in procurement
- public
- in research and development
- Investment tax credit (ITC)
- Ioannou, Ioannis
- Ireland
- Japan
- Kamal-Chaoui, Lamia
- Kansas
- Kansas City, Missouri
- Lacey, Washington
- Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (Earth Institute)
- Landfills
- Land use
- Lifestyle
- Living Cities
- Livingstone, Ken
- Lobbying
- Local-level policy
- cities as leaders in sustainability
- community design and land use
- politics of sustainability and
- resilient cities
- successful
- sustainability plans in the U.S.
- sustainable cities
- urban air quality programs
- urban energy initiatives
- waste management
- water management
- London
- Los Angeles
- Low-emission vehicle (LEV) standards
- Lydenberg, Steve
- McCaskill, Claire
- McCright, Aaron M.
- Maine
- Mann, Thomas E.
- Market-based tools (federal). See also Financial tools/mechanisms (state)
- cap and trade
- effectiveness of
- tax credits
- taxes
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Measuring sustainability
- frameworks and indices
- metrics as momentum for change
- public sector role in
- standard, generally-accepted
- sustainability metrics. See also Sustainability metrics
- Media
- Melbourne, Australia
- Metrics:
- environmental, social, and governance
- sustainability, see Sustainability metrics
- Mexico
- Mexico City
- Michigan
- Microgrids
- Midwest Greenhouse Gas Reduction Accord (MGGRA)
- Miller, Alison
- Milwaukee
- Minerals Management Service (MMS)
- Minnesota
- Money, politics and
- Mooney, Chris
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
- National Fuel Efficiency Policy
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
- National League of Cities
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- Natural resources
- Nebraska
- Net metering
- Networks for sustainability
- New Hampshire
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Newsweek's Green Rankings
- New York City
- New York Green Bank
- New York State
- New Zealand Emissions Trading Scheme
- Nike
- Nonprofit sector
- North Carolina
- Norway
- Nuclear energy
- Obama, Barack
- Offsets
- Ohio
- Oil depletion allowance
- Oklahoma
- On-bill financing (OBF)
- O’Neill, Tip
- Opinion polls
- Oregon
- Organizational capacity, investing in
- Organizational management
- Osgood, D. Wayne
- Our Children's Earth Foundation
- Our Common Future
- Parenti, Christian
- Parks and green spaces
- Partisanship in Washington
- Peñalosa, Enrique
- Pennsylvania
- Philadelphia
- Physical dimension of sustainability
- PlaNYC 2030
- PLUSnet system
- Policymaking
- Politics of sustainability
- Americans’ view of climate change
- and energy policy
- future of
- high-level support for local initiatives
- increasing partisanship in Washington
- at local level
- monetary, lobbying, and media influence on
- and public opinion
- public opinion and political ideology
- Tea Party and deregulation
- Pollution
- in 1940s
- industrial ecology approach to
- short- and long-term effects of
- Pollution policy (federal)
- Pollution policy (local)
- Population growth
- Portland, Oregon
- Power grids:
- climate adaptation planning for
- grid standards
- micro grids
- smart grids
- Private sector
- corporate sustainability in
- function of
- limitations of
- making/marketing of renewable energy resources
- shift toward sustainable practices in
- Procurement, public
- Production Tax Credit (PTC)
- Property-assessed clean energy (PACE)
- Public benefit funds (PBFs)
- Public investment and spending
- Public opinion
- Americans’ view of climate change
- and momentum behind sustainability
- and political ideology
- Public policy. See also Federal-level policy; Local-level policy; State-level policy
- to build sustainable economy
- function of public, private, and nonprofit sectors
- private sector limitations
- public–private partnerships
- renewable energy economy
- sustainability metrics and management
- transfer of technology to developing world
- transition management
- Public–private partnerships
- Public sector (government):
- functions of
- role in measurement and metrics
- role in sustainability
- societal role of
- Public transportation
- Quebec, Canada
- Rapid bus transit
- Reagan, Ronald
- Rebates
- Recycling
- Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI)
- Regulations and standards (in general)
- polluters’ view of
- setting and enforcing
- Regulations and standards (federal):
- effectiveness of
- regulatory capture
- regulatory failure
- and Tea Party's deregulation agenda
- Regulations and standards (states):
- emissions standards
- energy policies
- Regulatory capture
- Renewable energy:
- feed-in tariffs
- green banks
- incentives for transition to
- infrastructure for
- local policies encouraging
- need for economy based on
- Production Tax Credit for
- in transport system
- Renewable portfolio standards (RPS)
- Research and development (R&D):
- federal investment in
- funding for
- United States’ strengths in
- Resilience
- of cites
- of infrastructure and buildings
- Resource Conservation and Recovery Act
- Rhode Island
- Robert, Alexis
- Rogers, Jean
- Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
- Rotterdam
- San Francisco
- Science:
- basic, government funding for
- of climate change
- in decision making, policy, and politics
- federal investment in R&D
- Seattle
- Serafeim, George
- Shandas
- Singapore
- Smart grids
- Social change
- Social metrics
- Solar power
- South Africa
- South Daytona, Florida
- South Korea
- S&P Dow Jones Sustainability Indices
- Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resilience (SIRR)
- Standards, see Regulations and standards
- Standard sustainability metrics
- State-level policy
- climate adaptation planning
- emission standards
- energy efficiency resource standards
- energy policies
- to facilitate innovation
- feed-in tariffs
- financial tools/mechanisms
- fuel efficiency
- green banks
- infrastructure policies
- on-bill financing
- property-assessed clean energy
- public benefit funds
- regional cap-and-trade systems
- regulations and standards
- renewable portfolio standards
- tax credits, rebates, and subsidies
- Transportation and Climate Initiative
- transportation policies
- Stavins, Robert
- Subsidies
- Super PACs
- Sustainability:
- Americans’ view of
- challenges of
- and consumption/lifestyle
- definitions of
- measuring
- political change process leading to
- Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB)
- Sustainability management
- challenges in
- concept of
- and environmental movement
- and expansion of corporate sustainability
- goals of
- government functions supporting
- growing momentum behind
- measuring sustainability
- and organizational management
- sustainability perspective in
- for a sustainable, renewable economy
- sustainable cities
- Sustainability Management (Steve Cohen)
- Sustainability metrics. See also Measuring sustainability
- at local, state, and national levels
- as momentum for change
- standard, generally-accepted
- Sustainability perspective
- Sustainability plans, in the U.S.
- Sustainability reporting
- Sustainable cities. See also Local-level policy
- Svara, James
- Sweden
- Taxes
- federal-level
- as incentive for private investment
- as market-based tool
- oil depletion allowance
- supporting transportation infrastructure
- Tax credits
- Tea Party
- Technology. See also individual technologies
- investing in
- for solving sustainability challenge
- tax credits for investment in
- Technology transfer
- Texas
- Tradable pollution permit systems. See also Cap and trade
- Transition to sustainability
- TransMilenio system
- Transportation and Climate Initiative
- Transportation infrastructure
- Transportation policies (federal):
- electric vehicles
- high speed rail
- Transportation policies (local)
- active transport
- congestion charging
- electric vehicle infrastructure
- public transportation
- Transportation policies (state)
- emission standards
- Transportation and Climate Initiative
- Triple bottom line
- United Kingdom
- United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
- U.S. Geological Survey
- U.S. national commission on sustainability metrics (proposed)
- Unlikely innovators
- Urban areas. See also Local-level policy
- air quality programs
- energy initiatives
- sustainable
- Urban Sustainability Directors Network
- Vancouver, Canada
- Van Hollen, Chris
- Vehicle transportation. See also Electric vehicles (EVs)
- fuel economy/efficiency
- local emissions policy
- state emissions standards
- Vermont
- Vestas
- Vickery, William
- Virginia
- Wakeman, Raffaela
- Walker, Leslie
- Walmart
- Warner, Mildred
- Washington, DC
- Washington State
- Waste management
- Water and wastewater:
- local water management policies
- management of
- state policies for infrastructure
- taxes related to
- Western Climate Initiative (WCI)
- West Virginia
- Whitehead, Bradley
- Williams, Alex
- Wind farms
- Wind power tax credit
- Wisconsin
- Wood, David
- Wray-Lake, Laura
- Wyoming
- Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs)
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