In 2018 the City of Charlotte adopted the Strategic Energy Action Plan, an ambitious climate action plan with two timebound goals. First, for the City’s vehicle fleets and buildings to […]
UPDATE: On Monday, October 14, Charlotte City Council members voted to direct their delegate to the region’s transportation funding board (CRTPO) to voice the city’s support for starting the process […]
The City of Charlotte’s Planning Department’s staff has announced that they will be working on updating the Tree Canopy Action Plan to version 2.0 in 2025. The objective is to […]
Sustain Charlotte, Charlotte Regional Transportation Coalition (CRTC), Mecklenburg County Air Quality, Charlotte Office of Sustainability and Resilience, Charlotte Department of Transportation (CDOT), and Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) invite you […]
To help our followers better navigate the local election scene and understand where each candidate stands on a range of important issues that affect local sustainability, in partnership with the […]
Have you heard of Charlotte’s Strategic Energy Action Plan (SEAP)? Sustain Charlotte was part of a coalition of nonprofits that advocated for SEAP and helped secure its adoption in 2018. […]
A guest post by Gerry Kinglsey, NoDa resident and steering committee member for the Charlotte Regional Transportation Coalition steering committee member When I was asked to write a story about […]
Keith Helfrich decided early on in life that he would not get a driver’s license. On the one hand, he was born with impaired vision in one eye, and felt […]
This week, the Environmental Stewardship Committee held their May meeting. There was only one item on the agenda: the tree canopy in Mecklenburg County. Couldn’t make the meeting? Here’s a […]
Andy Patel grew up in North Carolina, having attended high school in Gastonia and college at UNC Chapel Hill. It wasn’t until he moved to Arlington, Virginia that he thought […]