• Make sure all staff are aware of and on board your city’s climate action plan

• Develop a communications forum/portal for sharing ideas and communicating new and existing policies and programs

• Form a multi-departmental Education and Outreach Committee

• Conduct education and outreach to actively engage city staff – brown bag lunches, department meetings, scientific expert meetings

• Develop and implement internal media campaigns

• Actively promote green programs throughout the city – newsletters, factsheets, brochures, intranet and all staff emails

• Provide resources for schools, businesses, City departments, institutions and civic organizations

• Celebrate and publicize “green” commitments and accomplishments

• Develop partnerships with community organizations and institutions

• Collaborate with local universities on environmental initiatives

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Additional resources and best practices

Local best practices

• Cleveland now has 4 full-time employees whose job it is to focus on climate change and sustainability
• Cleveland held a summit in the summer of 2009 that brought together more than 700 individuals from every sector of the community to begin to create a truly collaborative sustainability action plan for the region