City of Fitchburg Selects paleBLUEdot for Sustainability Plan

The City of Fitchburg, Wisconsin has selected paleBLUEdot for the community’s first Sustainability Plan.  Fitchburg is a community of 35,000 people. It is located just south of Madison.

The City wishes to build on its past and current sustainability efforts by establishing mid and long-term sustainability, resilience, and greenhouse gas reduction goals and creating a pathway of actions to achieve these goals.  The City Council has engaged paleBLUEdot in preparing an assessment of local greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts and to develop the City’s first Sustainability Plan. 

The paleBLUEdot Sustainability Plan effort will include:

  1. Development of community-wide and City Operations Greenhouse Gas Inventory and analysis for three subject years as well as a Business-as-usual forecast of GHG emissions for years 2030, 2040, and 2050.

  2. Development of a Climate Vulnerability and Risk Assessment meeting Global Covenant of Mayors (GCoM) requirements

  3. Conducting a community-wide Ground Cover, Heat Island, and Carbon Sequestration Assessment and Recommendations report.

  4. Development of a community-wide Renewable Energy Potentials study

  5. Creation of a community-wide Sustainability Baseline Assessment and Strategic Goals Recommendations report defining a community-specific emissions mitigation targets and goals

  6. Recommend community-specific sustainability, climate adaptation and mitigation actions that the City and community can undertake with an analysis of barriers and opportunities.

  7. Leading Sustainability Planning Public Engagement, with a particular focus on outreach and inclusion with an equity focus

  8. Development of the Sustainability Plan and Implementation Matrix

The paleBLUEdot team is honored to work with the City of Fitchburgn in developing the community’s first Sustainability Plan. 

The paleBLUEdot team provides a wide range of expert consultant services supporting community resilience, including Climate Action Planning, Sustainability Consulting, and Renewable Energy Planning..  Learn more about paleBLUEdot's Climate Action Planning services here.