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

Establish bioretention systems (e.g., rain gardens, bioretention cells, green roofs, planter boxes, bioswales, etc.) to make city landscapes more permeable to help control stormwater

Accommodate or provide dedicated infrastructure for cyclists via bicycle paths, lanes, cycle tracks or protected lanes, etc.

Help participants share transportation via informal arrangements between individuals, formally arranged ridesharing programs, or other ride-matching services

Establish and support land that is gardened or cultivated by community members via community land trusts, gardening education, zoning regulation changes, or service provision (e.g., water or waste disposal)

Modify local environments to support physical activity, increase access to new or existing facilities for physical activity, or build new facilities

Increase green space through new parks or open spaces, renovation or enhancement of under-used recreation areas, rehabilitation of vacant lots, brownfields, etc.

Offer opportunities for group purchase and distribution of selected grocery items, generally at a reduced price

Arrange active transportation with a fixed route, designated stops, and pick up times when children can walk to school with adult chaperones