Strategies: Climate Change

Implement anti-idling policies and awareness campaigns to reduce engine idling for passenger vehicles, school buses, and/or equipment and truck fleets

Promote walking and biking to school through education, incentives, and environmental changes; often called SRTS

Encourage methods of soil cultivation that keep at least one-third of cultivated soil covered with the previous year’s crop residue (e.g., mulch till, ridge till, strip till, or no-till)

Provide assistance to families with low incomes to make their homes more energy efficient and to permanently reduce their energy bills

Reform zoning regulations to remove exclusionary zoning codes, address physical environment aesthetics and safety, street continuity and connectivity, residential density, and mixed-use development, etc.

Support site-specific plans for crop production that match nutrient applications to crop needs, typically with agricultural best management practices

Introduce or expand transportation options that are available to the public and run on a scheduled timetable (e.g., buses, trains, ferries, rapid transit, etc.)

Replace or retrofit diesel buses or other vehicles to operate with clean diesel technology

Establish a framework to increase walking and biking trails and improve connectivity of non-auto paths and trails in a particular area

Support a combination of land uses (e.g., residential, commercial, recreational) in development initiatives, often through zoning regulations or Smart Growth initiatives