Document that the local school bus fleet has optimized routes, start times, boundaries, vehicle efficiency and fuels, driver actions to cut costs including idling reduction, and shifting students from the bus to walking, biking and city transit.
Phase-in operational changes, equipment changes including electric vehicles, and no-idling practices for city or local transit fleets.
Promote carpooling, ridesharing, carsharing, and bikesharing.
Adopt a tree preservation or native landscaping ordinance.
Document that at least one business/building uses waste heat or water discharge from another business or conducts materials exchange activities with another organization.
Adopt an historic preservation ordinance/regulations and encourage adaptive reuse.
Replace city-owned parking lot/ramp lighting with Dark-Sky compliant, energy efficient, automatic dimming lighting technologies.
Relamp/improve exterior building lighting for city-owned buildings/facilities with energy efficient, Dark-Sky compliant lighting.
Right-size/down-size the city fleet with the most fuel-efficient vehicles that are of an optimal size and capacity for their intended functions.
Use LED/solar-powered lighting for a flashing sign or in a street, parking lot or park project.
