Greening Communities: Integrating Climate Protection Policies into Local Governments' General Plans through Online Collaboration

In this paper, we outline the need for aggressive climate protection planning, the value of placing that planning upfront in the general plan policy making process, provide an overview of tools and resources currently available to communities, identify some gaps in the capacity to integrate climate protection policies into local governments’ general plans. We then discuss and critique an alternative approach that uses online collaboration to achieve those important goals.