Accelerating Progress Toward a Sustainable Hawai'i Island

This report is the end product of RMI's project with Hawai'i County, in which RMI reviewed the County's goals, developed a whole-system conceptual framework to evaluate the goals, made recommendations that would help Hawai'i County lead by example, and suggested ways of measuring progress toward those goals.

 

Framework for Community Sustainability: Ten Ingredients for Long-Term Success

The Framework for Community Sustainability was derived from the experiences of North American communities that understand that community, economy, and environment are not competing interests, but complementary parts of a whole. It outlines the components of smart and sustainable community governance, suggesting how to weave sustainability into the public, private, and nonprofit fabric of a community. [Originally published in 2003; updated in 2007]

 

Building Community Prosperity Through Natural Capitalism

This document provides guidance for communities that are attempting to grow economically regardless of physical size. The guide lists dozens of ways communities are tapping their potential today through natural capitalism. [Originally published in 2001; updated in 2007]

 

Collaborating for Healthy Communities: The Path to a Sustainable Future

This paper offers a brief summary of the principles of community collaboration, describes how collaboration can proceed, and explains smart governance and active listening.

 

Cuyahoga Valley Initative: A Model of Regeneration

This report summarizes RMI’s recommendations to the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission for regenerating the environment, economy, and community of the Cuyahoga River Valley.

 

Valuing Decentralized Wastewater Technologies: A Catalog of Benefits, Costs, and Economic Analysis Techniques

This report catalogs the economic advantages and disadvantages of decentralized wastewater systems relative to larger scale solutions in order to inform wastewater facility planning and assist communities in making choices regarding wastewater.

 

Case Studies of Economic Analysis and Community Decision Making for Decentralized Wastewater Systems

This report examines how communities consider and value the benefits and costs of different scale wastewater facility options in monetary or other terms, and examines the driving issues, motivations, thought processes, and decision-making methods of stakeholders relative to choices of wastewater system scale.

 

North Central Arizona Water Demand Study

This study describes the situation of water resource stakeholders in the Coconino Plateau and how to provide sufficient water for current and future needs. The study reviews water use strategies for residential, commercial, municipal, and industrial purposes.

 

Grappling with Growth: Building a Strong Economy and Great Place to Live

This document describes how a community can grow its economy without necessarily expanding the community physically. It also describes four elements of smart growth and describes how a community that is experiencing growing pains can develop its economy in ways that are compatible with smart growth.

 

Daylighting: New Life for Buried Streams

This report reviews the benefits, challenges, and costs of exposing formerly culverted or buried streams. This process is referred to as daylighting streams. The report includes case studies of several dozen daylighting projects.

 

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