Type Archive: Brief

  • Cultural Institutions Brief

    Energy & Resilience Task Force 2019 Q1 Meeting NOTES

  • Mitigation Brief

    Roadmap for Carbon Free Boston

  • Health Care Brief

    Energy Conservation Lease Agreement Template

    This sample offers guidance on developing an energy conservation lease agreement.

  • Health Care Brief

    Strategic Energy Master Plan Template

    This sample offers guidance on developing a strategic energy master plan for a hospital or healthcare facility.

  • Resilience Brief

    Boston’s Climate Vulnerabilities and Solutions Symposium

    The Climate Vulnerabilities and Solutions Symposium in September of 2016, brought together over 325 participants from the public, private, and non-profit sectors. Boston’s Climate Ready Boston team shared climate projections, vulnerability assessments, and resilience strategies.

  • Mitigation, Resilience Brief

    Climate Innovations European Study Tour Key Takeaways

    A collection of key takeaways and best practices participants learned on the Climate Innovations Study Tour.

  • Mitigation Brief

    Carbon Free Boston Initiative

    The Green Ribbon Commission is partnering with Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy to develop 2030 and 2050 strategies for inclusion in the City’s 2018 Climate Action Plan Update.

  • Resilience Brief

    European Climate Innovations Study Tour Overview

    From June 13-18, the Boston Green Ribbon Commission hosted a Climate Innovations Study Tour for approximately 20-25 Boston and Commonwealth leaders interested in in-depth learning about climate adaptation and mitigation best practices in several advanced cities in Northern Europe.  This document is the original overview of the entire project.

  • Health Care Brief

    Issue Brief: Can Sustainable Hospitals Help Bend the Health Care Cost Curve?

    By: Susan Kaplan, Blair Sadler, Kevin Little, Calvin Franz, and Peter Orris Abstract: As policymakers seek to rein in the nation’s escalating health care costs, one area deserving attention is the health system’s costly environmental footprint. This study examines data from selected hospitals that have implemented programs to reduce energy use and waste and achieve…

  • Higher Education Brief

    Higher Ed Working Group Mitigation Progress Summary

    The following summary report synthesizes the results of the HEWG Phase I stakeholder assessment. It gives a succinct progress report on how the HEWG universities are approaching mitigation and includes a detailed comparison table of HEWG university GHG goals, progress, best practices, awards and recognition, and other information.