Improve/organize residential trash, recycling and organics collection by private and/or public operations and offer significant volume-based pricing on residential garbage and/or incentives for recycling.
Improve recycling services and expand to multi-unit housing and commercial businesses.
Address concerns over consumer products and packaging through encouragement/implementation of one or more of:
Work with the local school district to ensure that future new schools are built using the SB 2030 energy standard and/or a green building framework.
Create a demand-side pricing program to reduce demands on water and wastewater systems.
Implement a wastewater plant efficiency project (co-generation, water reuse) or a program for local private business operations (water conservation, water reuse, business co-location).
Encourage private sector action and incentivize investment in preventive approaches that reduce risk and minimize impacts of extreme weather and the changing climate for human health and the built environment.
Increase social connectedness through engagement, capacity building, public investment, and opportunities for economically vulnerable residents to improve their economic prosperity and resilience to climate change.
Describe energy/water efficiency outcomes and other green building practices at businesses and not-for-profit organizations located within/nearby the city.
