Greenbelt Alliance
For Promoting Equitable, Sustainable Growth In The Bay Area
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Amount$235,000
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Program
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Date Awarded11/15/2010
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Term12.0 Months
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Type of SupportProject
Strategies
Overview
Greenbelt Alliance works to protect open space and promote livable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. California’s climate change law (AB32) includes targets for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (ghgs) resulting from sprawl and the increases in driving that go with it. Greenbelt Alliance would use this project support grant to help develop a binding regional plan for meeting the ghg reduction targets assigned to improved land-use by the state. The ultimate outcome of this work is to reduce Bay Area greenhouse gas emissions by one million metric tons by focusing new development near transit while reducing sprawl. In addition to ensuring the Bay Area does its part for reducing climate pollution, this resulting regional plan may be a model for other regions of the state.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.greenbelt.org
Address
312 Sutter Street, Suite 510, San Francisco, CA, 94108, United States
Grants to this Grantee
for the Bay Area Open Spaces project
Greenbelt Alliance works to protect open space and promote livable communities in the San Francisco Bay Area. Their work aims to ensure the region continues to provide clean air and water, locally grown food, and affordable housing in transit-friendly healthy communities, particularly for the region’s most disadvantaged populations. This grant will specifically support collaboration among key conservation players in the Bay Area to help protect the 3.6 million-acre greenbelt of natural and agricultural lands that provides food, parks, and an urban boundary that prevents sprawl.
for the Bay Area Open Spaces project
This grant will help fund the Open Space Actions effort to provide an institutional framework for collaboration among key conservation players in the Bay Area to help protect the 3.6 million-acre greenbelt of natural and agricultural lands currently in existence.
