Replace small internal combustion engine lawn and garden equipment (e.g. lawnmowers, weed whips, etc.) with lower polluting equipment.
Create or participate in a marketing/outreach program to connect businesses with assistance providers, including utilities, who provide personalized energy, waste or sustainability audits and assistance.
Decrease air emissions from vehicle idling, gasoline filling stations, business trucking, and pollutants/noise from stationary
Phase-in operational changes, equipment changes including electric vehicles, and no-idling practices for city or local transit fleets.
Implement an existing TMDL implementation plan.
Integrate green building and EV charging best practices information and assistance into the building permit process.
Use design to create social trust and interaction among neighbors and allow developments that meet the prerequisites for LEED for Neighborhood Development certification.
Report to landowners suspected noncompliant or failing septic systems as part of an educational, informational and financial assistance and outreach program designed to trigger voluntary landowner action to improve septic systems.
