Other Resources – Central Coast Climate Collaborative

Regional Toolkits & Workbooks

Municipal Facility Energy Retrofit Tool – City of Santa Cruz and Ecology Action, funded through a California Energy Commission grant, created a tool that enables facility operators to benchmark and determine high energy consuming buildings suitable for energy retrofits. The tool is a starting point to identify energy saving opportunities and will provide generalized implementation costs

EPA & FEMA Regional Resilience Toolkit – A toolkit that focuses on disasters that occur at the regional scale. Creating a coordinated process across multiple jurisdictions can result in safer communities. The toolkit is set up to allow multiple jurisdictions and levels of government to work together for regional-scale actions. It also includes engagement with community groups and NGOs.
Georgetown Climate Center Managed Retreat Toolkit – Georgetown Climate Center’s new Managed Retreat Toolkit combines legal and policy tools, best and emerging practices, and case studies to support peer learning and decision-making around managed retreat and climate adaptation.
Clean Building Compass – Tools, case studies and templates to help local government navigate the climate crisis, inspire action and network with other local government staff. Made possible by the Building Decarbonization Coalition.