Energy & Water Throughout 2010, the NPS has been conducting contracted energy audits at many parks throughout the service. This effort is both required to meet federal mandates and will also provide parks with useful information concerning their energy consumption and progress towards meeting federally-mandated performance targets. Learn more...
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Climate Change
Tackling climate change depends on sustainable practices. Throughout the NPS, the effects of climate change are already impacting natural and cultural resources. At Joshua Tree National Park, changes in climate are making the park inhospital to its namesake species.
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Pollution Prevention Pollution prevention at national parks encompasses natural resource conservation and pollutant elimination/reduction through more efficient use of materials, energy, water and land. There are five sub programs that fall under the Pollution Prevention (P2) program. Learn more...
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Sustainable Buildings
The Sustainable Building Design and Operation program helps parks identify ways to build and retrofit buildings to be more sustainable. The program has developed the NPS Sustainable Building Implementation Plan.
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What Is This?
The Green Parks Plan (GPP) articulates an overarching vision that will make everything we do more sustainable by establishing environmental performance targets, empowering staff to be agents of change, collaborating with stakeholders, and engaging millions of visitors to support this effort during visits and while at home. We can all make a difference!
Go to the Green Parks Plan website to download the full plan.
Read the Green Parks Plan press release
Useful Resources
For a list of interesting links, be sure to check out this site's
Useful Resources page as well as the links below.
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