See the web site address below. The Federal Environmental Protection Agency also provides guidance on EPPs, pilot projects, and tools and resources, and suggests the private web sites below. Municipalities have an opportunity to incorporate principles of resource efficiency and healthy indoor air quality through building and renovation projects on town-owned and private land. Decisions about raw materials, energy and water use, and demolition waste all affect the environment. Municipalities can set procurement policies calling for purchasing more environmentally sensitive wood, paints, finishes, adhesives, insulation, roofing materials etc.
Towns can construct model buildings to raise awareness throughout the community.
They can also develop green building guidelines and establish ordinances for recycling of construction waste such as Portland, Oregon has done. This site provides several links to resources on Green Building and Design Techniques and Technologies. You can build or remodel your house so that is more comfortable, costs less to maintain, and is healthier for you and your family. Municipalities have the particularly difficult task of controlling pests in very diverse settings and ecosystems such as athletic fields, schools, lawn, gardens, and municipal buildings. This requires knowledge in pest control for different plant materials, pests and structural and ecological environments.