Greening the Park

Richmond National Battlefield Park has a longstanding commitment to sustainability. The Parks' Environmental Management Team, established in 2005, consists of members from all divisions of the park staff and works to foster a "green" ethic in all aspects of park management. The team develops and implements best management practices emphasizing safety, efficiency, and resource stewardship. Enabling employees to operate our facilities with sustainable practices helps reduce overhead costs spent on utilities as well as costs spent on facility maintenance. With sites spread across four municipalities, we have the potential to create a region-wide impact. The park is committed to ensuring that energy efficiency and environmentally friendly, sustainable practices are a part of our regular operations.

 

 

Ensuring the Park's long-term sustainability requires a complex approach that attempts to reduce a wide diversity of environment impacts. Learn more about some of the measures which the park is taking to support green purchasing and waste reduction; sustainable building design, operation, and maintenance; water management; and energy and petroleum reduction.

 

Want to learn more about the goals that we are working towards?

• Check out how the National Park Service is addressing sustainability at www.nps.gov/sustainability.
  
• Find out how facilities management relates to climate change issues at www.nps.gov/subjects/climatechange/index.htm.
• View the NPS Climate Change Response Strategy at https://www.nature.nps.gov/climatechange/docs/NPS_CCRS.pdf.
  

• Learn about the Green Parks Plan here: https://www.nps.gov/greenparksplan.

• See how our actions fit into the National Park's overall mission of stewardship and engagement in a Call to Action at: https://www.nps.gov/calltoaction.