Hawtin Jorgensen Architects is pushing the U.S. Green Building Council to create regional green building codes.

Teton County Library plans on generating between 25-30 percent of its energy with solar power within five years.

Nancy Taylor of Green Living and Building Consulting is in the process of writing a book on green living.

During a Friday forum, 30 businesses, nonprofits and government agencies shared these ideas and others on how they’re using alternative resources, conserving power and implementing other methods of sustainability.

By bringing like-minded, environmentally conscious individuals together, organizers of the Jackson’s Green Actions forum hope to give those taking green actions a sense they are part of a larger movement while also providing those not doing so with a sense of security they can take similar steps.

About 100 audience members attended the “brag session” at The Wort Hotel.

“What we’re here to do is to celebrate those of you who are taking small, individual steps that make a difference, that make ours a better community,” said Jonathan Schechter, executive director of the Charture Institute, which co-sponsored the event with The Murie Center and the Town of Jackson.

Many of the organizations revealed plans they hope will make Jackson Hole a more environmentally friendly place. Sustaining Jackson Hole will host several mini-summits this year on several topics, from agriculture to the arts, to encourage sustainable practices. Jackson Hole Community Recycling is launching the third phase of its Reduce Reuse Recycle campaign with a media campaign scheduled to run between Feb. 21 and April 25. The Jackson Hole Chamber of Commerce will host two more sustainability seminars on Feb. 15 and March 15, focusing on waste management and purchasing.

By pursuing a unified pathways system, Jackson Hole Community Pathways hopes that by 2020, 28 percent of all transportation within the valley will be from modes other than single-occupancy vehicles. And Grand Targhee Resort appointed a new director of sustainable operations, a high-level position created for the resort to continue assessing and improving its green practices.

Other nonprofit and government agency forum participants included Grand Teton National Park, Yellowstone-Teton Clean Energy Coalition, Teton County School District, Teton Conservation District, Teton County government, Teton Science Schools, Teton Sustainability Project, Town of Jackson, Town of Jackson Planning Commission and Vista 360.

Other business participants included Alpenglow Farms, Blue Spruce Cleaners, Creative Energies, Grand Teton Lodge Co., Jackson Hole Mountain Resort, Jackson Whole Grocer, kpcomm, Lower Valley Energy and Signal Mountain Lodge.

Mayor Mark Barron, speaking both as a community leader and as the owner of High Country Linens Service and Blue Spruce Cleaners, highlighted the economic benefits of efficient, sustainable operations and stressed their importance to future generations.

“It’s time to look at our planet with lenses that can let us focus on what we see as if we are looking at our planet through our grandchildren’s eyes,” he said.

Today a roster of organizations that participated in the forum, as well as the green actions they are taking, will be e-mailed to forum attendees and posted on each of the sponsors’ Web sites, charture.org, sustainingjh.org, muriecenter.org and cijackson.wy.us.