Our IQP tracks the progress and implementation of the Green Communities Act of 2008 in Massachusetts. Our methods included giving a survey to members of the WPI community to assess their knowledge and opinion of the Act, and determine ways in which they implement green technologies in their own lives. We found that most of the public does not know what the Green Communities Act is doing for them, but that most people are going green in some way. We also gave a survey to all the town managers or equivalent town officials across the state to track and compare the progress of different towns with the Act. From this, we analyzed different levels of progress with the Act's goals at a town level.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Thomas, Kelsey
• Coffey, Patrick J.

Subject

• Environment
• Sustainability
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050510-174626

Keyword

• Sustainable development--Environmental aspects
• Community development
• Sustainability

Advisor

• Rissmiller, Kent J.

Year

• 2010

Date created

• 2010-05-05

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright