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Green building policies and support . Also clear residential decision making resources (ie how to <br />reduce our impact , how to decide what to invest in when making home upgrades). <br />1. Curbside organics recycling— aka composting. I use Aspen for my business so i know they <br />provide this service. I’ve been hauling my compost to work or the community dumpster did 12 years <br />now. I don’t understand why this is taking so long to implement . 2. Send out the street sweepers the <br />day AFTER trash and recycling have been picked up. Some days I see the street sweepers making <br />the rounds the day before or HOURS before the trash and recycling are picked up. And then there’s <br />litter blowing around from stuff that dropped out during the pickup. It’s really big that hard to <br />schedule the street sweepers to follow the route aer Aspen had been through. 3. Discourage <br />people from chemical lawn treatment— more bed lawns and pollenator pathways. 4. Follow Mpls’ <br />lead: ban styrofoam amd black plastics, require restaurants and food establishments to . 5. Promote <br />Hennepin County recycling grants to local businesses to encourage them to become more <br />sustainable. 6. Stop giving land opportunities to shoddy developers when there are non profits that <br />will make it work for low-income people. That trailer park land grab was awful. And all the <br />deforestation that developer did, deplorable. We can do better. <br />Give the people who are using a smaller garbage container a break. We use to use a large container. <br />We have cut way back to maybe one garbage bag out of house a week to two weeks. Doing a <br />smaller container price is still pretty high. Giving an incentive might help people to cut back on <br />garbage & increase recycling. <br />Reduce vehicle exhaust and fuel usage by allowing better traffic flow and fewer stops and starts. <br />Plant many more shade trees, and require developments to plant mandatory shade trees throughout <br />their properties. Ban all pesticide use from private and public areas. Mandatory leed building <br />practices and requirements for new development and renovations. All cities large and small need to <br />get busy treating climate change as real and a serious threat to all living things. <br />Carbon emissions are a small part of global heat . Life on earth is carbon based. Our skys are being <br />sprayed by jets every day with various metals and other substances. Go to geoegineeringwatch.om <br />and watch THE DIMMING to inform yourselves. <br />Converting to green energy <br />Find ways to add green space <br />high temperatures; lack of rain; lower and extreme higher humidity; poor air quality for the chronic <br />and elderly; monitoring of water so we have an abundance for all. <br />Provide curbside compostible waste pickup <br />Reducing carbon <br />Alternative energy sources, water usage <br />Solar for city use schools, etc., charging stations, energy grid, clean water and water gardens. <br />electrifying everything. providing EV chargers. Updating building codes to require EV chargers, <br />maximum insulation, solar panels, high efficiency furnaces/ACs, electric stoves, etc. etc. <br />Cut carbon emissions. Electrify cars. Build more EV charging stations. More solar energy. Tighten <br />building codes. <br />More electric vehicle charging stations. <br />pollution from traffic, impact on biodiversity-i.e. agriculture and trees <br />Sustainable energy sources/alternatives <br />Pollution: both air and noise, expanding green spaces, continue to have things residents can do- <br />composting, etc. <br />Insulating all homes and buildings, encouraging family and community gardens, rain gardens, <br />planting fruit and nut-bearing trees and shrubs, solar panels on homes and buildings, composting, <br />etc. <br />supporting carbon reducing measures like solar panel installation and transportation electrification <br />renewable energy sources <br />Public transportation availability is decreasing, is there any thing the city can assist with? More and <br />more apartments which brings with it additional traffic and pollution. Yet public transportation is <br />decreasing. Have the bump outs helped? Or is this yet another solution making pollution worse due <br />to idling cars. The city should listen to the residents. Previous roads changes were announced to the