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ACTION ALERTS!
There are sometimes opportunities for short term actions to make long lasting effects. Learn more about current and past ACTION ALERTS.
Help co-create the ReCode wiki database!
We encourage anyone who has any knowledge about sustainable technologies and practices to create an account and post that information to the wiki so that we can continue to grow our database and become a resource for groups and individuals that want to implement more sustainable building and zoning at the residential, commercial, mixed-use, or municipal level.
Come to a monthly coordinating meeting!
Please attend our next monthly coordinating meeting. For places, times and topics see: Upcoming Events.
View Agendas and Minutes to see what we've been talking about at the monthly coordinating and working group meetings.
If you can't make the meeting and/or want to get involved outside of the meetings, we have created 5 working groups for the purpose of dividing the work into focus areas.
Join a Working Group!
If you're joining the active work of one of these groups, please sign up to the appropriate mailing list.
- Practices R&D group.
What are the technologies and practices that we'd really like to encourage? Specifically oriented around grassroots, bottom-up change: how can we unleash the innovation and creativity of inventive people, while ensuring that community values and safety are protected? Let's focus on identifying the details!
- Codes R&D group.
Coordinate existing research and materials on regulatory obstacles to sustainable practices. Identify various approaches to changes in code, from overall strategy to detailed written form. Coordinate with Practices R&D working group.
- Networking group.
Keep in broader context, bring people in, cross-pollinate, contact allies. Get stakeholders on opposite sides, facilitate roundtables, understand the heart of issue. Networkers talk to people with concerns, not just ready-made allies. Also regionally and nationally, to bolster effort. We also maintain and expand the Groups and processes page, in which we keep track of allies and their work, and how best to link things together.
- Public education group.
Public education through film, web, print media, etc. Create public awareness of the issues and garner support for regulatory change. Also, make easily accessible info about what the current codes are and how to navigate new ones.
- Government Relationships group.
Develop relationships with officials and bureaus at all levels. What concerns do they have, what are the hold-ups? Give public support to the many public servants that are working hard to make change; keep the awareness and political strength focused. Currently working together with Public education.
