Cool Planning: LEED-ND in Plain English

In giving some advice on LEED-ND on Pro-Urb, John Anderson once wrote "LEED-ND is a reasonable (but in my view excruciating) way to go."  He suggested other paths to get to a similar place with "less brain damage."
 
In my latest Sustainable Industries article, Cool Planning: LEED-ND in Plain English, I recommend that  Cool Planning: A Handbook on Strategies to Slow Climate Change would make a perfect handout for policy-makers to warm them up to the idea of creating incentives for LEED-ND.  Or you could use it to help policymakers develop the kind of strategies/policies/practices LEED-ND gets you to--without the brain damage.

Several of CNU Cascadia Chapter's members were involved in creating this excellent handbook.  Let's not let their work sit on a shelf--or in this case, the Internet!  NOW is the time to be getting the strategies/policies this handbook recommends into place.  Become familiar with it yourself and get the word out to your favorite policymakers TODAY! 

I believe it would be very useful for small towns too--but let us know what you think--especially if you live or work in one.  Your comments on the Sustainable Industries site will be especially valuable in helping me to reach a new audience.

-- Mary Vogel, PlanGreen