Set minimum sustainability standards to reduce the impact of your concrete use, asphalt, roadbed aggregate, or other construction materials.
Increase walking, biking and transit use by one or more of the following means:
Budget for and achieve resilient urban canopy/tree planting goals.
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 profitability, legal compliance and conserve resources through adoption of ordinance language, licensing and resource management contracts.
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:
Adopt best practices for urban tree planting/quality; require them in private developments and/or use them in at least one development project.
