The following memorandum outlines sustainable plans for introducing sustainability to the City of Binghamton. The information has been collected from
Sustainable Plans
The two sustainable plans we can draw inspiration from and incorporate into our own city's plan are Syracuse Sustainability Plan and the New York-Connecticut Sustainable Communities Consortium. The Syracuse Sustainability Plan is part of the City of Syracuse Comprehensive Plan 2040. It serves as a guide for the preservation and enhancement of the environment, the reduction of energy costs, and the improvement in the quality of life of residents. I believe Binghamton should draw inspiration from Syracuse Sustainability Plan because of the extensive public input from the committees
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The plan covers New York City, Long Island, the lower Hudson Valley, and coastal Connecticut. Its aim is to create more jobs and mixed-income housing in specific downtown locations and low-income neighborhoods served by the MTA Metro-North Railroad and the MTA Long Island Rail Road. I believe Binghamton should draw inspiration from NY-CT Sustainable Communities Consortium because of its vision to create a network of downtowns and neighborhoods. Binghamton should incorporate parts of this plan because of the need to further develop our downtown area.
Chapters of Sustainability Plans
The chapters of the Syracuse Sustainability Plan consist of Energy & Green Building, Education, Food Systems, Natural Environment, and Waste & Recycling. The chapters of NY-CT Sustainable Communities Consortium are Executive Summary, A Vision for Sustainable Development in the New York-Connecticut Region, Impediments to Realizing the Sustainable Development Vision, and Implementing the Regional Sustainable Development Vision.
Sustainability
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The Plan takes form in needing strong government and community leadership; additionally, it focuses on the continuous civic participation and ongoing progress assessment of the plan. The responsibility for the implementation would be up to The Bureau of Planning & Sustainability. The Bureau would take the responsibility of developing community partnerships and opportunities for implementing community goals and will convene quarterly to discuss their progress, identify funding opportunities, address any challenges, and to outline objectives for the coming
Identify ways that practicing social workers could assist rural populations in achieving their desired outcomes The social worker could as assist the rural population by introducing a community building concept. According to Smock (2004) community building focuses on strengthening the social and economic fabric of communities by connecting them to outside resources, the goal is to build the internal capacity of communities by focusing on their assets/strengths and engaging a broad range of community stakeholders to develop high-quality and technically sound comprehensive plans. Also, social worker could assist rural population to achieve their desired outcomes, by using the basic principle, strategies and skills of a consensus organizer such as: • Conducting a community analysis in identifying the strength, interest and resources of the community.
Baltimore offers a very general issue that many planners face today when it comes to community participation and taking decisions and the quality to the outcomes of these meetings. Although the planners could have gone the distance in understanding the community identity and diversity often times it becomes harder for planners in their roles to wear the hats of sociologists and go about affecting the outcomes through educating the community. Understanding the roots of any community is very important in taking decisions for its future course. The way the planners acted here is more a natural course of action that most of the planners go by today. Baum asks for the planners to be enforcers to be ethical in this case pushing the agenda of common good that is probably ignored by the homeowners that participate for their own self interests. He also says the issue crops when planners do not do more to create the climate for everybody to feel emotionally on the same page for them to feel more comfortable in seeing not just their own interests but others, thereby allowing them to see the diversity in the community without feeling shame or depression.
The strategic report plans on building upon the first report made in 2004 along with the progress made with programs such as the University Senate Committee on the Environment, Emory Recycles, the No Net Loss of Forest police, the commitment to LEED construction and the campus land use classification plan (2015). After highlighting the progress made, the report states that the goal is to continue progress growth within the next ten years with an audit occurring after five years. The report goes on to define sustainability as, “a community is sustainable if economic, social, and environmental systems provide a healthy, productive, and meaningful life for all community residents, present and future”(2015). The definition of sustainability is then built upon to identify four strategic action areas where progress will be made. The action areas being support of culture to act on sustainability, expanding the network of sustainability “champions”, using Emory landscape to model sustainability, and to create resilient and flourishing communities with strategic partnerships.
Social obstacles range from social class to authority/power. With such a big vision there will have to be 1-3 people overseeing the entire plan to direct all volunteers. Authority and leadership roles can cause people to become corrupt and not completely follow through with the wants and needs of the community, while they focus on the benefits for themselves. Upper class people may be more willing to adopt change because they have more access to resources. Many of the goals in the plan will require financial obligations of some sort. Whether it is a sponsorship, donation, or coming out of their own pockets Miami Gardens will need money for this plan to happen. Some individuals in this population cannot afford their next meal. This is a major economic obstacle in this community.
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This is important within the context of environmental sustainability because it allows for opportunities to collect and build information and data to address the issues that will be useful for creating and outlining management strategies and observing the plans of operation (SOE, 2016) (CBD). This involves collaboration with various stakeholders as they work together and support each other to achieve the goals SOE,
Planning is an approach towards the problem solving rationally. It can be taken as a remedial tool for creating change in the current situation in a systematic and efficient way. A problem in the planning profession will be The solution found by planners to varied situations in practice is very dependent on the certain criteria like social, economic, environmental, and political. The evaluation of a solution on these criteria defines the success of a solution. The new definition of the planning problems was given by Rittle and Webber in their path breaking article (Dilemmas in a General Theory of Planning).
My belief is that sustainable living means reducing the demand on natural resources in order to not only preserve but promote the health and wellbeing of our earth for the life that exists on it today and for the life that will exist in the future generations to come. To me, that means modifying my lifestyle, starting with my day-to-day cup of coffee in the morning to brushing my teeth before I go to bed at night with respect to my relationship with the earth’s natural cycles and ecology. In becoming a member of this community here at Ohio University, I hope to bring my own experiences in personal sustainability to others in an effort to improve the efforts of our community as a whole in living a more sustainable and eco-centric lifestyle.
Have you ever heard the term “sustainability”? You probably have, since you can easily find the term anywhere—in the news, on television, or even displayed on products that are considered sustainable. Sustainability is generally defined as the ability to preserve and maintain resources over a long period of time. It is usually associated with using renewable energy sources such as solar energy and wind power and protecting the natural environment. However, it is important to expand the definition of sustainability so that it includes more than environmental issues.
Sustainability is a concept with a diverse array of meanings and definitions – a widely used glamorous, ambiguous, ambivalent and vague concept that is used by different stakeholder groups in various ways. Presumably to avoid noodling over a terminology or to avoid the confrontation with a definition, most widely the concept is broken down a planning process (c.f. e.g. Döring & Muraca, 2010). That is why most common sustainability is understood as sustainable development.1
Initially a profile of a community will be drawn up using research methods, surveys and statistics that will highlight the issues faced by the community. Then a plan...
(According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics 2011).Task of regional planning is planners are going to have meetings when with their group.Discussing a lot of things about the public areas.They will make changes to those areas if they are needed when they have discussed it with their group.Next the designs are going to have to be set up right that are being done for creating things in certain spots.If not everything is going to be wrong and the superiors are not going to like that a lot.
The concept of development plan was taken up to provide an instrument for preparing a framework incorporating various town improvement schemes and programmes. The classical development plan aims at comprehensive development. It is rightly said that effective functional jurisdiction of the
Participation can be seen as “the inclusion of a diverse range of stakeholder contributions in an on-going community development process, from identification of problem areas, to the development, implementation and management of strategic planning” (Schafft and Greenwood, 2003, p. 19).
The concept of “going green” is a necessity for the future because “our children deserve cities as beautiful as they are”. Works Cited Russell, Lauren. A. Web. " An Evaluation of Municipal Recycling Programs."