Be smart. Start planning your communications now with our free editorial calendar.  

Just as you plan for your community's future, you need to plan your communications. Local governments large and small can employ a variety of communications channels -- social media, websites, e-newsletter, partners, events, media outreach -- throughout the year to share the messages and actions that will help meet your climate and sustainability goals.

But it can't be an afterthought.

Use this editorial calendar (or share it with your comms staff) as the foundation for your communications planning so that you're thinking in advance about how to leverage opportunities from Earth Day to Bike Month and all the seasons and holidays (the real and social media kind) in between.