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In the Sunbelt, Young Climate Activists Push Cities to Cut Emissions, Whether Their Mayors Listen or Not Nashville and Jacksonville, economic peers and competitors, offer a climate tale of two cities. Nashville has a plan; Jacksonville, not so much. By Sydney Boles, Brendan Rivers and James Bruggers  June 2, 2021 A man kneels on the top step of his porch as he looks out over the flooded streets of the San Marco historic district of Jacksonville, Florida, on September 11, 2017, after storm surge from Hurricane Irma left the area flooded. Credit: Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images Related , a pro...

Compared with Nashville, Jacksonville is doing relatively little to reduce its carbon footprint and does not have a climate action plan — although many believe the city is starting to move in the right direction and should look to examples like Nashville for the way forward.

What Jacksonville Can Learn From Nashville About Fighting Climate Change

4 FORT CAMPBELL, Ky. – From the top of The Sabalauski Air Assault School’s rappel tower and down into the dirt at a firing range, 17 business and community leaders immersed themselves in Army life April 28 during the Nashville Leaders Tour. Ralph Schulz, a Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army and president and CEO of the Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, worked with Fort Campbell to organize the event and build relationships between the two communities. “Our vision starts with the fact that we’re all part of an economic region,” Schulz said. “It’s the peo...

Bob Rolfe serves as commissioner of the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development. If you have been keeping up with the news lately, it will come as no surprise that Tennessee is a finalist to land what would be the largest project in the state’s history in terms of job creation. Global tech giant Oracle is considering expanding its U.S. information technology development footprint, and Nashville is a contender for this project. Along with 8,500 high-quality jobs that will provide exceptional wages, Oracle would invest $1.4 billion in Tennessee, of which $175 million would...