Miami-Dade County is America's most vulnerable community to climate change. While the County has made great strides in moving toward a resilient and sustainable future, now it's time to focus on how to effectively achieve our aggressive energy and greenhouse gas reduction goals.

GreenPrint -- Our Design for a Sustainable Future is being developed by Miami-Dade County to serve as an overarching sustainability plan to reaffirm, establish and synchronize our government and community goals, initiatives and measures.

The planning process is comprised of ICLEI's five key milestones, which will help us evaluate and integrate the environmental, social and economic benefits in the policy decisions we make, the programs and initiatives we implement, and the services we deliver.

GreenPrint will integrate with existing County efforts and additional community plans. It will leverage present sustainability goals and initiatives and develop new ones where needed. A central component of GreenPrint is the measures and targets associated with each initiative.

For years the Miami-Dade Board of County Commissioners and County departments have been implementing policies and initiatives to address climate change and other important sustainability issues. Now is the time to elevate and intensify our efforts, better coordinate our plans and resources and raise awareness in our community for a sustainable future.

GreenPrint will be the framework to evaluate and integrate environmental, social and economic benefits in the policy decisions we make, programs and initiatives we implement and services Miami-Dade County delivers.

We welcome you to submit feedback about GreenPrint and suggestions on how Miami-Dade County can build a more sustainable community.