Tybee Island County Commission
Vue d'ensemble
Mission: Ensure that Tybee Island's sustainability efforts are a source of beauty, pride and abundance – not deprivation.
Offerings:
Establish a baseline for energy/water use and develop an ecological footprint analysis as an improvement measurement system.
Offer the city guidance and recommendations for implementing sustainable practices in city workplaces.
Promote locally generated and distributed energy by renewable sources.
Report on project outcomes to the mayor and council.
Identify ways of incentivizing energy and water efficiency for Tybee citizens.
Identify ways of incentivizing energy, water efficiency and green building practices for the future development of Tybee.
Identify and promote low carbon and non-motorized transportation methods. Encourage use of low impact transportation methods by developing safe multi-use paths including unopened city right of ways.
Promote eco-tourism.
Promote community gardens, fishing, local food production thereby increasing food security.
Promote an awareness of the reduction in our eco-footprint with educational campaigns to motivate citizen action.
Lobby state, federal and private entities on behalf of the city's sustainable energy program.
Where these functions and duties overlap with those of another city committee and/or community group coordinate efforts to ensure the avoidance of duplication of effort.
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