Energy:

Renewable Energy | Energy Efficiency | Climate Change

Action 1 Adopt and implement a policy to increase the use of renewable energy to meet

ten per cent of the city’s peak electrical load within seven years.

Action 2 Adopt and implement a policy to reduce the city’s peak electric load by ten per

cent within seven years through energy efficiency, shifting the timing of energy demands,

and conservation measures.

Action 3 Adopt a citywide green house gas reduction plan to reduce the jurisdiction’s

emissions by twenty five percent by 2030, and which includes a system for accounting

and auditing greenhouse gas emissions.

Waste Reduction:

Zero Waste | Manufacturer Responsibility | Consumer Responsibility

Action 4 Establish a policy to achieve zero waste to landfills and incinerators by 2040.

Action 5 Adopt a citywide law that reduces the use of a disposable, toxic or non-

renewable product category by at least per cent in seven years.

Action 6 Implement “user-friendly” recycling and composting programs, with the goal of

reducing by twenty per cent per capita solid waste disposal to landfill and incineration in

seven years.

Urban Design:

Green Building | Urban Planning | Slums

Action 7 Adopt a policy that mandates a green building rating system standard that

applies to all new municipal buildings.

Action 8 Adopt urban planning principles that advance higher density, mixed use,

walkable, bikeable and disabled-accessible neighborhoods which coordinate land use and

transportation with open space systems for recreation and ecological restoration.

Action 9 Adopt a policy or implement a program that creates environmentally beneficial

jobs in slums and/or low-income neighborhoods.

Urban Nature

: Parks | Habitat Restoration | Wildlife

Action 10 Ensure that there is an accessible park or recreational open space within half-a-

kilometer of every city resident by 2015.

Action 11 Conduct an inventory of existing canopy coverage in the city; and then

establish a goal based on ecological and community considerations to plant and maintain

canopy coverage in not less than fifty per cent of all available sidewalk planting sites.

Action 12 Pass legislation that protects critical habitat corridors and other key habitat

characteristics (e.g. water features, food bearing plants, shelter for wildlife, use of native

species, etc.) from unsustainable development.

Transportation

: Public Transportation | Clean Vehicles | Reducing Congestion

Action 13

Develop and implement a policy which expands affordable public

transportation coverage to within half-a-kilometer of all city residents in ten years

.

Action 14 Pass a law or implement a program that eliminates leaded gasoline (where it is

still used); and that phases down sulfur levels in diesel and gasoline fuels, concurrent

with using advanced emission controls on all buses, taxis, and public fleets to reduce

particulate matter and smog- forming emissions from those fleets by fifty per cent in

seven years.

Action 15 Implement a policy to reduce the percentage of commute trips by single

occupancy vehicles by ten per cent in seven years.

Environmental Health:

Toxics Reduction | Healthy Food Systems | Clean Air

Action 16 Every year, identify one product, chemicals, or compounds that is used within

the city that represents the greatest risk to human health and adopt a law to provide

incentives to reduce or eliminate its use by the municipal government.

Action 17 Promote the public health and environmental benefits of supporting organic

foods . Ensure that twenty per cent of all city facilities (including schools) serve locally

grown and organic food within seven years.

Action 18 Establish an Air Quality Index (AQI) to measure the level of air pollution and

set the goal of reducing by ten per cent in seven years the number of days categorized in

the AQI range as "unhealthy" to "hazardous."

Water:

Water Access & Efficiency | Source Water Conservation | Waste Water

Reduction

Action 19 Develop policies to increase adequate access to safe drinking water, aiming at

access for all by 2015. For cities with potable water consumption greater than 100 liters

per capita per day, adopt and implement policies to reduce consumption by ten per cent

by 2015.

Action 20 Protect the ecological integrity of the city’s primary drinking water sources

(i.e. aquifers, rivers, lakes, wetlands and associated eco-systems).

Action 21 Adopt municipal wastewater management guidelines and reduce the volume of

untreated wastewater discharge by ten per cent in seven years through the expanded use

of recycled water and the implementation of sustainable urban watershed planning

process that includes participants of all affected communities and is based on sound

economic, social, and environmental principles.