Identify and implement the community's vision for economic prosperity, strong community, and environmental health:

• Comprehensive and strategic planning to guide growth, conserve natural and built resources, and provide for multi-modal transportation, open space, and recreation.

• Sense of place, including housing, community services, historic preservation, brownfield redevelopment, sense of place, and growing Northampton businesses through policies, regulatory reform, incentives, and infrastructure.

• Geographic Information System and data base development to support planning information needs.

• Integrated implementation of planning, community development, and economic development activities.

• National Park Service
• National Register of Historic Places
• National Trust for Historic Preservation
• SAH: Society of Architectural Historians
• Historical American Buildings Survey
• Historical American Buildings Survey-Guidelines
• Overview of Preserve America
• Save Our History-The History Channel
• American Association of State and Local History
• PRESERVATION Mass
• The State Library of Mass
• Massachsetts Historical Society
• Caring for Your Historic Home
• Illustated Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings
• Common Language -Terms of Historic Preservation
• Oh No, We Can’t Build That
• Historic Houses of N.E. Open to the Public
• Massachusetts Historical Commission
• National Underground Railroad-Network to Freedom
• The Connecticut River Homepage-history
• Railroad Stations in Massachusetts
• Searchable Mass Historic Property Inventory (Form Bs)

1. Products grown in Northampton OR
2. Products made in Northampton using methods that consume significantly less natural resources or energy than is typical within their industry OR
3. Products made in Northampton that will consume significantly less natural resources or energy than is typical of similar products offered elsewhere.
4. Products sold in Northampton, with a significant Northampton presence, that will consume significantly less natural resources or energy than is typical of similar products offered elsewhere.
5. Other exemplary sustainable practices.

• Greasecar Vegetable Fuel Systems Diesel to vegetable oil conversion.
• Just Soap Company A natural soap blended by bicycle.
• Pedal People Human powered bicycle trash pickup and hauling service.
• Hickory Dell Farm Community farm, farm products, and llamas.
• RunAbout Cycles Build electrically assisted recumbent tricycles.
• Wright Builders Builders of Energy Star homes
• Zip Cars Shared car service (through Smith College)
• Center for Ecological Technology Certifies/promotes energy efficiency
• Starlight Llama Bed & Breakfast Off-the-grid farm bed and breakfast.
• Town Farm CSA In-town CSA and sustainable vegetables and meat
• RideBuzz Rideshare program