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8. Your community has embraced and is building the infrastructure of the new “green” energy
alternatives including solar and wind farms while discouraging the continued use of other forms of
energy such as fossil fuel and coal.Your community is placing restrictions on private landowners in the
form of increased regulation and changed land use rules in order to promote farmland preservation,
environmental protection and conservation of natural resources.

9. Your community is working through state and local mechanisms including NGO’s (Non-
Governmental Organizations) to gain more and more control over privately owned land in order to
secure it in perpetuity as shared, common “green space”.

10. You find this or any similar symbol in your community’s official government documents: Your
community belongs to the Earth Charter, the Sierra Club’s Cool Cities Initiative or the Audubon
Society’s Sustainable Community Initiative or your mayor has signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors’
Climate Protection Agreement.

11. Your community leaders accept manmade global warming as fact and begin to endorse policies
to mitigate any actions or development that may promote global warming.

12. Your community enacts an energy plan requiring governmentally predetermined efficiency
standards in order to lower your community’s carbon footprint. This may include utilizing new
“green” LEED building and energy code standards for construction and development that include
incentives, benchmarks, and retrofitting.

13. Your local leaders begin to refer to your community as a “transition town”, a resilient city, or as
a “livable community” and begin teaching through local government and institutions a community
focus on interdependence with nature, interconnectedness and globalism.

14. Your local government uses the language of Social Equity; such as food justice, economic and
environmental justice, fairness, direct democracy, diversity, food deserts, social justice, and wealth
redistribution.