Alachua County has over a decade of initiatives and programs dedicated to creating a more sustainable community stretching from the 1999 Alachua County Sustainability Projects Ad Hoc Committee, to the most recent, Energy Conservation Strategies Commission in 2008. In each endeavor the County, representatives of the business community, local institutions and private citizens have met to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of our great grandchildren to have the same quality of life.