May 2015 Urban Sustainability Innovation Report

FEATURED USDN INNOVATION STORY: Deeply Exploring the Problem Before Fixing It: Lessons learned about accessing rental housing data. What started as a website development project to share rental housing energy data evolved into a thoughtful multi-phase process that is tackling data access and incentivizing energy efficiency in rental housing. More »

Data Crowdsourcing Strategies: What do you do when you can't get access to the data? Design a crowdsourcing strategy so the data comes to you. More »

INNOVATOR PROFILE: Jacqui Bauer (Bloomington, Indiana) oversees sustainability programming in the city, where she uses creative partnerships to navigate town-gown sustainability opportunities and supplements her one-woman office with coaching and guidance from the USDN Small Cities User Group. More »


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