Resource guide is part of the Education Initiative for the U.S. General Services Administration's Office of Governmentwide Policy WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A new comprehensive guide for sustainable development in the federal government, authored by thought leaders from HOK, the General Services Administration and the University of Maryland, has earned a top award from the Federal Planning Division of the American Planning Association. The guide is being recognized as part of the GSA Sustainable Development Education Initiative, which was selected as the winner in the "Outstanding Sustainable Planning, Design and Development Initiative" category. Sounding the alarm not only for the federal government, but also for the nation and the world, the authors of this 40-page guidebook declared that "Today's world is decidedly not sustainable and neither are the Government's operations. But both of them can be." To that end, it provides specific principles for "How to live sustainably as a species on a finite Earth into the indefinite future."
