Membership Organizations

The Legacy Project is a proud and active member of various organizations that support it in it’s mission to realize the 2030 Legacy Vision.  These membership organizations include:

ICLEI- Local Governments for Sustainability:  ICLEI is a membership association of local governments committed to advancing climate protection and sustainable development. Since its inception in 1990, ICLEI has grown to include over 1,000 cities in the world, more than 550 of which are in the United States.  ICLEI USA’s mission is to build, serve, and drive a movement of local governments to advance deep reductions in greenhouse gas emissions and achieve tangible improvements in local sustainability.  Burlington has been a member of ICLEI since 1996.

The Urban Sustainability Directors’ Network:  The USDN is a group of sixty-five sustainability directors,  from cities and counties in the U.S. and Canada, who share ideas, lessons learned, and best practices to promote sustainability.  Burlington, and the Legacy Project, is a founding member of this group.  The USDN came together for the first annual Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN) gathering in Chicago on September  2009. Funded by the Surdna Foundation, The Home Depot Foundation, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and the Blackstone Ranch Institute, the USDN was formed to enable public sector sustainability leaders to learn from each other and accelerate achievement of ambitious city sustainability goals.

Climate Communities:  Climate Communities is a national coalition of cities and counties that is educating federal policymakers about the essential role of local governments in addressing climate change and promoting a strong local-federal partnership to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  Climate Communities is working to ensure that the federal government:  Recognizes and enhances the critical role of local governments on climate change;  Provides the funding and incentives needed to achieve local climate change progress;  Ensures that national carbon control laws and regulations provide opportunities and  ncentives for local solutions to climate change challenges; and Helps localities address and pay for any new mandates imposed on communities. Burlington has been a member of Climate Communities since 2008.