Establish a Mayor’s award program recognizing citizens, businesses, and organisations working on creating the Greenest City. Explore the idea of using a Citizen’s Jury selection process for award recipients as a way to empower citizens in choosing which people and projects deserve to be recognized.
Encourage and enable lighter footprint lifestyles
Encourage and enable lighter footprint lifestyles for individuals, diverse communities, organizations, institutions and businesses through delivery of tools, programs and incentives.
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Greenest City Mayor's award program
Enable and support other Greenest City Working Groups
Work with the local food, zero waste and green jobs working groups in particular to pilot programs and projects that reduce waste, create green jobs, increase access to healthy food, reduce ecological footprint, and engage the community. Some examples of pilots might be: a neighbourhood scale composting program; the creation of a central food hub for the development of local food products; reduce food waste through strengthening community efforts around food recovery and redistribution programs; develop materials on nutrient dense, local, just and low footprint diets; development of a “Food Charter – Seal of Approval” for food products that support the goals of local, low-footprint, just and sustainable food system; develop an annual City-focused smaller footprint diet challenge; create an urban agriculture strategy with a focus on identifying and increasing the amount of cultivatable land; work with large food distributors and retail purchasers to develop lighter footprint plans.
Pilot a Greenest City Program with a Vancouver Business Improvement Association
Work with a Vancouver Business Improvement Association to pilot a Greenest City program that could include a lighter footprint certification process, awards and incentives for innovations in lighter footprint practices.
Pilot an "eco-concierge"
Pilot an “eco-concierge” program in a green residential building, where a concierge provides information and resources about lighter footprint living in the City.
Explore innovations in permits, licencing and bylaws
Explore innovations in zoning bylaws, property taxes, business licences, building codes, building permits and other instruments that will result in lighter footprint activity and practices
Partner with and support organizations working with small and medium sized businesses
Partner with, and support organizations working with small and medium sized enterprises in their work doing energy audits for businesses and organizations and build on their work to include other lighter footprint issues.
Evaluate the City's granting programs
Evaluate the City's granting programs for funds that can be used to support organizations in lighter footprint practices
Develop on-line personal footprint calculator
Develop a Vancouver-specific on-line personal footprint calculator, integrated with other social marketing and engagement strategies.
Invite neighbourhoods and individuals to self-organize
Invite neighbourhoods and individuals to self-organize and identify policy barriers to lighter footprint living. For example, a neighbourhood could request a street closure, or new median to restrict access to only one end of the block as a means to reduce private vehicle traffic and open up public space for other uses.
Comprehensive local directory of sustainable choices
Partner with an organization to establish a comprehensive local directory of sustainable choices for local, lighter footprint goods and services.
Encourage use of City’s Greenest City data to develop engagement and monitoring tools
Encourage use of City’s Greenest City data by mobile APP developers, businesses, community organisations, and international researchers using the Open Data program, and to develop innovative engagement and monitoring tools.
Support regional efforts around waste reduction
Join Metro Vancouver in advocating for senior governments to prohibit the manufacture and distribution of non-essential, non-recyclable or non-compostable materials and products and packaging.
Thank you for your input! The strategies and actions listed here are drafts. Read the final version of the Greenest City Action Plan.
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