The City of Boulder Colorado has adopted a Social Sustainability Strategic Plan to balance the work already done in environmental and economic sustainability. The city has made an active effort to balance the three Es of sustainability and will continue the work by working to integrate them. The plan may be found at http://www.ci.boulder.co.us/files/sss_draft_may8.pdf
Other documents which lead up to the Social Sustainability Strategic Plan, including a policy briefing paper on what Sustainability in a local government context and changes in the Citys Comprehensive plan to embrace sustainability may be found at http://www.ci.boulder.co.us/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=750&Itemid=315
Boulder conducted a comprehensive review of municipal sustainability initiatives and found that almost all of them overlooked social sustainability. Of those that did not, most had only a weak direction for policy development. Boulders effort is one of the most conscious attempt to balance the 3 Es in municipal policy in the country.
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