Metro is seeking to fill a Senior Program Coordinator position within the Office of Sustainability. The Office of Sustainability implements and advances policies, programs, and partnerships to achieve Metro’s Sustainability Vision and Principles. The Senior Program Coordinator is responsible for assisting the management team in... Read More
Fairfax County is exploring being the first Virginia locality to create a “green bank” as a way to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050. See the full story at FFXNow. More DMV News D.C. Moves to Ban Natural Gas in Most New Buildings, Aiming for Carbon Neutrality DCist... Read More
Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) will support states, local communities, tribes and territories as they undertake hazard mitigation projects, reducing the risks they face from disasters and natural hazards. The BRIC program guiding principles are supporting communities through capability- and capacity-building; encouraging and enabling... Read More
This year, the Institute for Sustainable Communities (ISC) is growing the Partnership for Resilient Communities (PRC) with a new round of funding that will allow them to add additional partners to the program’s cohort. This request for proposals is seeking 4-5 organizations to participate in... Read More
The U.S. Climate Alliance is a bipartisan coalition of governors committed to upholding the goals of the Paris Agreement. The Policy Advisor for Climate Infrastructure will work with the U.S. Climate Alliance’s Executive Director in formulating and executing a strategy to support Alliance states in... Read More
Solarize NoVA is a program of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC) in partnership with local government members, the Local Energy Alliance Program (LEAP) and local solar installers in the region. Through a competitive review process, LEAP evaluates proposals from local installers and selects a high-quality... Read More
Less than a year after being endorsed by the COG Board of Directors and incorporated into Region United: Metropolitan Washington Planning Framework for 2030, Equity Emphasis Areas (EEAs) are becoming part of the region’s planning vocabulary. See the full story at the COG Newsroom. More... Read More
City of Bowie offers this program designed to help residents take a step to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. City residents can apply for rebates to offset the cost of electric lawn care tools including lawnmowers, weed trimmers, hedge trimmers, and leaf blowers. The rebates... Read More
Sustainable Maryland, in a new partnership with Pepco, will offer Sustainable Communities Grant awards to eligible municipalities and nonprofit organizations. This program will provide $75,000 to fund environmental stewardship projects and $50,000 for community resilience projects across the Pepco service area in Montgomery County, Prince... Read More
The Climate Mayors seeks a Policy Director to support bolder equitable climate actions by Congress, Federal agencies, and state and local government. The Policy Director is expected to work with leadership to set policy priorities, work with the Biden Administration on identified priorities (e.g. Bipartisan... Read More