"Sustainability 2.0" is Taking Off: Rigorous Green Strategies for Communities

"For those concerned with sustainability, some big things are on the way from Washington," write Shutkin and Flint at Citiwire.net, headline: Getting Down to Business in Sustainability 2.0. "We haven’t been used to such heavy lifting from the federal government. For years, the action has been at the local level, in metropolitan regions that have been engines of innovation focused on green, compact, transit-oriented settlement. In fact, during the final stages of the Bush administration and into these first days for President Obama, the bottom-up dynamic has led to a kind of Sustainability 2.0."

Read their conclusions about the pending "bottom up," local surge in sustainability--and the challenges it will face. At http://citiwire.net/post/745.  Also, check out another blog on the event at Onsite Strategy.