On July 29, join us for a webinar focused on how cultural identity and sense of place factor into local sustainability efforts in 3 smaller US cities.

Santa Fe, Santa Monica, Shaker Heights – each city evokes a distinct image in your mind. From artsy Southwest capital city to West Coast beach destination to Midwest garden city suburb, each place is rich in geography, culture and history. It’s no accident that each city has served as the backdrop of notable movies and recent Netflix and Hulu specials. These places have a unique collection of characteristics that connect with people and foster sense of place.

These 3 cities, each under 100,000 population, also have long-standing commitments to sustainability and quality of life and are actively engaged in the LEED for Cities program. For this webinar, we’ll engage leaders from each city to talk about how their uniqueness has shaped their approach to sustainability. We’ll learn about each city’s story – how they were designed and developed, who lives and works there, what the political climate is like and what drives the local economy. We’ll uncover how those local conditions affect their pathway to sustainability – what are the local priorities? What do residents care most about? What initiatives are they focused on in 2020 and beyond?

In this webinar, we will:

• Learn about three distinct US sustainability programs in cities with fewer than 100,000 residents
• Reveal how cities maintain long-standing commitments to sustainability and quality of life
• Uncover context-specific similarities and differences between programs based in the Southwest, Midwest and West Coast regions
• Hear how cultural identity and sense of place shape approaches to local sustainability