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Investing in renewable energies, better public transportation, water-efficient landscape rebates, and <br />better recycling options. <br />Find ways to help make sustainably energy sources more accessable to residents. <br />Solar <br />1. Single use plastic ban. 2. Residential grants to help homeowners remove dead ash trees and <br />replace with trees tolerant to MN's changing climate. 3. Making streets more walkable and bike -able. <br />4. Educating residents on how to be resilient to a changing climate, especially for those most <br />vulnerable to it's hazards. 5. Supporting and educating on low-waste lifestyles. <br />Know some would like compost pickup. <br />Moving to electric for all city vehicles and reducing pesticide/herbicide use. Ensure that water and <br />utilities are prepared for extreme weather. Incentivize/promote drought tolerant and/or native plants <br />and pollinator friendly lawns. <br />Strongly incentivize clean energy usage in homes and electric vehicles. Increase walkable/rideable <br />street space through dedicated lanes/walkways. Rezone to allow small grocery stores to provide <br />healthy food in closer proximity to residents and reduce car trips. Focus on water quality monitoring <br />efforts even more. Ban use of chemical treatments on lawns/city property. Promote education of <br />children and residents on environmental issues and sustainability. Plant more trees on city property <br />and incentivize planting of more trees on residents’ grass-filled lawns. <br />Energy reduction, reuse and reduce initiatives, models for SAV citizens to learn from <br />Carbon emissions should be a primary focus, including use of electric vs. gas-powered vehicles and <br />equipment and buying into solar gardens or installing solar for City facilities. <br />Water use <br />Reducing or eliminating GHG emissions related to Village activities; e.g. purchasing EVs to replace <br />gas and diesel powered vechiles and equipment . <br />The focus of the city (and city resources) should be to foster a healthy and safe place for its <br />residents (to the extent practically feasible, given most things creating poor air quality, for instance, <br />come from sources outside city boundaries - like fires hundreds of miles away), not on arbitrarily <br />reducing carbon emissions. <br />Lower taxes. Allow resident and business to address how they see fit , by retaining more of their <br />money. <br />The City of Saint Anthony is made up of all kinds of people who have all kinds of views on climate <br />change along with businesses. The city administration along with Police, Fire, Liquor etc need to <br />continue to look for ways to reduce our, "city" carbon out put . It takes a village and unless everyone <br />is buying in it will never happen. Cars along with heating our houses contribute a lot along with the <br />transportation of goods for our use. Unfortunately real home runs on what to do about it do not <br />seem to exist which makes it feel overwhelming. So makes goals and keep working towards those <br />goals as new things to reduce carbon become available. <br />I would like to see St Anthony strive toward reducing its carbon footprint by promoting composting <br />more such as in the school systems, by turning off the power in blocks, by promoting bus or <br />bicycling in the city (perhaps make a bike lane on our larger roads?), and by making laws for waste <br />in our city. <br />Unknown, I defer to climate experts for what local municipalities and individuals can do to make an <br />impact . <br />Moving to all electric for city vehicles and encouraging residents to move to electric for vehicles, <br />lawn equipment etc. Ensuring that city utilities are prepared for extreme weather. Reducing <br />pesticide/herbicide use. Making more walking paths to the city schools, so kids can walk to school <br />safely and not in the roads. <br />Promote public transportation and biking including more sidewalks. Bring back pollinator garden <br />project . Contract with garbage company for curbside composting, make composting required <br />Promote public transportation and biking including more sidewalks. Bring back pollinator garden <br />project . Contract with garbage company for curbside composting, make composting required <br />Encourage remember energy sources and actions that make us less dependent on cars (public <br />transit access, walkability, bikeability, ??), help residents improve their homes' energy efficiency