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Fellows present countywide sustainability plan framework, ask Hamilton County commissioners to endorse steering committee
Summary
Two Green Umbrella fellows assigned to Hamilton County presented a 10‑week progress report Aug. 12, 2025, and asked commissioners to champion and formally endorse a steering committee to carry forward a countywide sustainability plan.
Two climate-action fellows placed with Hamilton County Department of Environmental Services and Green Umbrella presented a 10-week progress report to the Hamilton County Board of County Commissioners on Aug. 12, 2025, asking the commission to "champion the development and the adoption of the sustainability plan and to formally endorse the steering committee" that will carry the project forward.
The fellows said their summer fellowship (June 2–Aug. 8, with a May 28–30 training) produced a set of deliverables intended to seed a countywide sustainability plan for Hamilton County covering all 49 jurisdictions. They showed a county-specific greenhouse‑gas inventory (using Thrive Together regional data narrowed to the county), a peer-review of other U.S. sustainability plans, an engagement strategy, stakeholder contact lists and draft chapter templates. The fellows said industrial and transportation sectors are the county’s largest sources of…
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