Fairfield Climate Neutral Initiative
Vision:
- Fairfield has achieved carbon neutral status by dramatically reducing its carbon footprint, and participating in significant offset projects that benefit a sister city in Africa.
- This achievement has brought great economic benefit, improved quality of life and health, and feelings of pride for every citizen.
- Fairfield is looked upon as a model of environmental responsibility, economic, social and cultural dynamism, and harmony among its citizens.
- Fairfield becomes a the Navarre Region of the US, reaping huge economic rewards and achieving a high degree of self-sufficiency
Mission:
To achieve carbon neutral certification for the city of Fairfield through the most prestigious international certification body.
Goals
- Build a valid greenhouse gas model for Fairfield
- Engage with organizations that can help us build our carbon model.
- Build an ROI model for achieving carbon neutral status at various levels of increased efficiency in energy use, and other factors.
- Engage a guiding coalition of business, civic, and religious leaders from across all social sectors.
- Create a public education campaign as to the economic and quality of life benefits of the initiative. Achieve a critical mass of citizen support and enthusiasm for the goal.
- Interact effectively with all other citizen committees formed from the Community Futures conference to advance the goal of greenhouse gas reduction and carbon neutral certification
- Engage in a cooperative program of support with Melbourne Australia or other cities which have set the goal for carbon neutral status and have built models we can access.
- Engage a coalition of international experts willing to help make Fairfield a model for other cities to follow.
- Engage with Wangari Mathai and the Greenbelt Movement to set up a sister city in Africa for offset projects and cultural exchange.
- Engage the faith community in the initiative through the ministerial council
- Create education programs and ways to engage school aged children.
- Engage the retired community as ambassadors of the initiative
- Create artistic expressions of the initiative and goals through the model of community building of The Living Arts Institute.
- Partner with local organizations and individuals already deeply engaged in sustainable living theory and practice.
