City of La Crescent Selects paleBLUEdot for Sustainability and Resilience Plan

The City of La Crescent has chosen paleBLUEdot to develop the community’s first Sustainability and Resilience Plan. La Crescent, a community of 5,500 residents located in Southeastern Minnesota, aims to enhance its past and ongoing sustainability efforts by setting medium- and long-term sustainability and climate resilience goals and outlining a series of steps to reach them. The City Council has tasked paleBLUEdot with assessing local greenhouse gas emissions and climate impacts, and with creating the city’s inaugural Sustainability and Resilience Plan. 

The paleBLUEdot Sustainability and Resilience 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 and climate resilience Baseline Assessment and Strategic Goals Recommendations report defining a community-specific goals

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

  7. Leading sustainability and resilience planning public engagement, with a particular focus on outreach and inclusion with an equity focus

  8. Development of the Sustainability and Resilience Plan and Implementation Matrix

  9. Identification of Top Sustainability and climate resilience project priorities for the first year of sustainability and climate resilience implementation

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

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