Climate actions - short-term

Build community capacity to protect existing trees by one or more of:

Improve city operations and procurement to prevent and reuse, recycle and compost waste from all public facilities (including libraries, parks, schools, municipal health care facilities), and minimize use of toxics and generation of hazardous waste.

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.

Address concerns over consumer products and packaging through encouragement/implementation of one or more of:

Engaging the Next Generation:

Optimize energy and chemical use at drinking water/wastewater facilities and decrease chloride in wastewater discharges.

Protect water supply and wastewater treatment facilities to reduce physical damage and sustain their function during extreme weather events.

Protect public buildings and natural/constructed infrastructure to reduce physical damage and sustain their function during extreme weather events.

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.