Promising Practices
The Promising Practices database informs professionals and community members about documented approaches to improving community health and quality of life.
The ultimate goal is to support the systematic adoption, implementation, and evaluation of successful programs, practices, and policy changes. The database provides carefully reviewed, documented, and ranked practices that range from good ideas to evidence-based practices.
Learn more about the ranking methodology.
Environmental Improvements Brought by the Legal Interventions in the Homes of Poorly Controlled Inner-City Adult Asthmatic Patients (New York City, New York)
Filed under Evidence-Based Practice, Environmental Health / Built Environment, Urban
The goal is to use a medical-legal collaborative intervention to force landlords into maintaining healthy living conditions for residents with poorly controlled asthma.
This proof-of concept study exhibits that medical-legal collaboration can significantly impact the control of inner-city asthmatics by improving their domestic environment.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Weather & Climate
The program aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and address global warming on college campuses.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
CMOP's goal is to reduce methane emissions from coalbeds by promoting the profitable recovery and use of coal mine methane.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
Interface's sustainability goals involve reducing their greenhouse gas emissions, reducing non-renewable energy use, and increasing renewable energy use in their production process.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability
The goal of Labs21 is to create environmental showcase laboratories that take a "whole-building" approach to laboratory design.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
The goal of the Landfill Methane Outreach Program is to promote the use of landfill gas as an energy source.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
Reduce methane emissions from natural gas operations by identifying and promoting the implementation of mitigation technologies and management practices.
Filed under Effective Practice, Environmental Health / Air
EPA's partners have committed to reduce PFC emissions 10 percent below their 1995 baseline by 2010.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Energy & Sustainability, Children
The program is designed to empower 6-8th grade students across the region with the knowledge that their everyday choices do make a difference. The program aims to influence how middle school students and their families think about and use natural resources in their daily lives.
Filed under Good Idea, Environmental Health / Toxins & Contaminants
The Rhode Island process builds on a recent agreement among all the New England Governors and Eastern Canadian Premiers to reduce greenhouse gases in the region to 1990 levels by 2010, 10% below those levels in 2020, and by as much as 75% over the longer-term.