Community-Based Environmental Protection
Resource for Protecting Ecosystems & Communities
(United States)
This is the EPA’s complete guide to designing and carrying out environmental restoration at the community level. It describes how to start a project, how to assess community needs, strategies for action, and tips on evaluating the whole project. Chapter 4, "Strategies to consider for ecosystem protection," is helpful if you're starting to think about things your community might want to do.

Livable Communities@Work - Community Organizing (United States)
This first paper in the Funders’ Network series “Communities@Work” is about practical ways to find common environmental goals for community groups. The Funders’ Network offers a huge online library of resources, including profiles of their own projects, publications from other organizations, and speeches and transcripts. This is an invaluable resource, and there’s more where it came from.

Community Guide to Restoring Public Landscapes (Canada)
Evergreen Canada’s mandate is to “bring communities and nature together for the benefit of both.” This guide to restoring public environments provides a beginning-to-end outline of how to involve the community, where to find help, how to build alliances, and how to secure funding. Evergreen offers many other resources, including some targeted at schools, in order to incorporate the environment and citizenship into the curriculum.

The Councillor as Guardian of the Environment (International)
The United Nations Human Settlements Programme published this training manual for local and municipal elected officials. Its focus is not specifically on community-building, but community groups may find this manual useful when working with local elected representatives.

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