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Recommendations of Community Futures Conference

Energy:

• Large scale wind and solar farm
• Sustainable biofuel production
• Sustainability City Resource Center
• Organizing bulk purchases of energy efficient appliances, light bulbs, Photovoltaic panels, etc.
• Partnering with Alliant to make use of all their energy savings technologies and information
• Selling city bonds to fund initiatives
• Citizens Advisory Board – office attached to mayor’s office that deals with efforts and coordinates projects.

Transportation:

• Community ride and vehicle sharing including car sharing program and expansion of yellow bike program
• Public awareness campaign
• Biodiesel co-op
• Pedestrian rail overpasses – rail traffic is expected to double in the next couple of years – construct overpasses so people don’t have to wait for trains in their cars to foster more walking and biking around town.
• Green design for square including bike parking, electric recharging station for electrical cars and bikes, edible landscaping

Food Security:

• Local food resource center with community gardens, educational arm, public edibles, neighborhood interest groups, and new farmer programs

Built Environment:

• Resource Center – provide information, financial help, development projects, coordinate and integrate local resources, public education and demonstrations, materials, seminar, lectures, marketing, business planning

Personal Lifestyle Choices:

• Focus on education – to help people move from where they are with respect to awareness and implementation to an even greater degree of involvement and change in their lives
• Green education program with Green Information Center, website, community seminars, mentor program, newsletters, emails, work with public and private school systems, connection to experts
• Neighborhood Green Associations – fostering community building and support for moving to sustainability through neighborhood and community gathers, meetings, free-cycle (people make available what they no longer want in their homes for others to take – program exists in other communities), shared common tools, community projects
• Field trips, demonstrations, and discussions led by local experts
• Full force publicity campaign – TV, radio, print, town banners, contests, flyers – to make the green initiative a constant awareness
• Networking – engaging all segments of the community and all organizations – identifying appropriate spokespeople in each of the segments and organizations

Local Economy:

• Development of city currency
• Training
• Wiki Database
• Convention
• Resource Center
• Co-ops
• Group purchases
• $1000 each for 1000 homes for retrofitting, etc.
• Energy inefficient tax
• Sister city program
• Talent database
• Green business incubator
• Institute
• Organic processor for value added biorefinery
• Project development group
• Big block grants

Waste:

• Community Resource Center
• Community and commercial composting using food that’s wasted every day
• Community gardens – using composted waste
• Methane digester – harness methane from dairy or hog farms
• Implementing waste management program in schools – schools manage their own * waste – also educational for students
• Ban plastic and non-degradable containers – already done in San Francisco and other areas

Public policy:

• Establish citizen advisory committee
• Greener than green planning code
• Community greenhouse
• Comprehensive public education
• Create green municipal utility

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