Reducing Greenhouse Gases
Executive Order 13514 requires all federal agencies to establish and meet greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Helping Other Agencies
NCPC is revising its policies and review requirements pertaining to federal facility site selection, transportation planning, and building design. The new guidelines will help ensure that federal agencies meet their greenhouse gas reduction goals.
Pulling Our Own Weight
NCPC submitted its first Agency Strategic Sustainability Plan to the Council on Environmental Quality and the Office of Management and Budget in June 2010. This plan, which NCPC is required to update annually, sets targets for the agency’s reduction in greenhouse gases over the next ten years. NCPC is reducing its greenhouse gas emissions by limiting resource consumption on site. This includes switching to double-sided printing, using a water filtration system to discourage the use of water bottles, discouraging the use of plastic plates and utensils, and promoting recycling. The agency continues to seek ways to meet its reduction goals, from traveling to meetings on agency bicycles, to implementing water reduction and energy efficiency measures.
Other Federal Agency Strategic Sustainability Performance Plans were recently posted on the White House's website.
Green Urban Design
The 2009 Monumental Core Framework Plan envisions dozens of exciting urban design projects that provide opportunities for employing best practices in sustainability.
The center of the capital city can be a showplace for high performance buildings, green infrastructure, and energy efficient transportation.
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10th Street Corridor Ecodistrict
New federal buildings already meet stringent energy efficiency criteria, but sustainable planning requires a broader perspective.
The 10th Street Corridor Ecodistrict will showcase how federal districts—buildings, the spaces around them, and their related infrastructure—can function as an environmentally low-impact unit.
The project will lay out strategies for staying within an annual rainfall and solar budget, with the eventual goal of becoming carbon neutral.
The project began in February 2010. Short- and long-term recommendations for improving the corridor will be ready at the end of 2011.
Related Materials
NCPC's Strategic Sustainability Plan
Comprehensive Plan:
Federal Environment Element
Monumental Core Framework Plan
Flooding Report
CapitalSpace
Video: Sustainability
Video: Office Sustainability
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