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Category: Past Projects

Sierra Leadership Institute (SLI)

Energy & Climate Program We’re looking for climate change and clean energy innovators who want to take a project or concept to the next level. The June installation of SLI is currently complete. Please check back for additional opportunities to participate in Sierra Leadership Institute – Energy & Climate Program. Climate change not only poses […]

Green Prosperity Initiative

The Green Prosperity Initiative seeks to build a multi-stakeholder network to support a growing green economy while producing regional economic outcomes across three areas: savings, opportunity, and talent. Our vision is of a California where investments in energy efficiency are just that—investments. Green Prosperity is not a sinkhole that needs one grant after another without […]

Eastern Sierra Economic Assessment

The Eastern Sierra Economic Assessment project resulted in publication of “Eastern Sierra Innovation and Prosperity: An Industry Cluster Approach to Economic Sustainability in California’s Inyo and Mono Counties” in September 2012. To launch the project in 2009, Sierra Business Council assembled a committee of more than 40 community stakeholders and contracted the Sonoran Institute to […]

Eastern Sierra Land Ownership Adjustment Project

The Eastern Sierra Land Ownership Adjustment Project (LAP) is designed to create a collaborative process through which land ownership of private parties, federal agencies, counties and tribes may work together to compliment regional growth plans. A copy of the report is available HERE Project OverviewWith almost 97% of the land base in Inyo and Mono […]

Green Communities Resources

Use the following links to access resource documents for the Green Communities Program. Background Information Rationale for proactive efforts to complete a Local Government Operations Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory Statewide Energy Efficiency Collaborative (SEEC) – SEEC provides free technical trainings and resources to help California local governments increase statewide energy efficiency and cost savings and […]

Placer Legacy Open Space & Agricultural Conservation Program

Conserving Our Land, Protecting Our Heritage Placer Legacy is a public/private partnership between Placer County and the Sierra Business Council (SBC). The program is designed to balance economic growth with a proactive conservation effort to protect and improve a variety of natural and open space resources in the fastest growing county in California. Objectives Maintain […]