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Portland, OR Calling on President Bush to End Radioactive Waste Shipments Through Portland

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 7/29/04
Source File: http://www.portlandonline.com/sten/index.cfm?c=26449&a=52311
Text:
RESOLUTION No. 36238
Urges President Bush to order the United States Department of Energy to immediately reconsider its decision to ship additional radioactive waste to Hanford through cities such as Portland and to defer any additional radioactive shipments to Hanford until such time as the existing contamination at Hanford is cleaned up.
WHEREAS, the United States Department of Energy (DOE) under the Bush Administration is planning the shipment of up to 70,000 truckloads of radioactive waste to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation; 
 
WHEREAS, 1,000 truckloads or more of this waste would be shipped through the City of Portland without any police or military escort or other security protection and could expose residents to dangerous levels of radioactivity;
 
WHEREAS, DOE itself acknowledges that even if no accidents were to occur these radioactive shipments would cause at least 10 cancer deaths in motorists traveling near these radioactive shipments;
 
WHEREAS, DOE plans to store this radioactive waste at Hanford which is located on the banks of the Columbia River and already constitutes the most severely contaminated site in North America;
 
WHEREAS, the proposed shipments could detract from efforts to cleanup multiple sources of radioactive contamination that DOE admits is currently leaching into the Columbia River and has contaminated over 180 square miles of groundwater;
 
NOW, THEREFORE IT RESOLVED that the City of Portland hereby requests that President Bush order DOE to immediately reconsider its decision to ship additional radioactive waste to Hanford through cities such as Portland and to defer any additional radioactive shipments to Hanford until such time as the existing contamination at Hanford is cleaned up and water quality in the Columbia River is protected.
Category:City Governments
Category:Nuclear Free
Category:Oregon
Category:Portland
Category:Resolutions
Portland, OR Community Watershed Stewardship Grant Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?c=43077
Description:
Environmental Services works with Portland State University, Americorps, local watershed councils and the community to raise awareness of and to improve watershed health. We offer community project grants, educational workshops, technical assistance, watershed council organizational development and informational resources.
Our watershed stewardship grants provide up to $10,000 to schools, churches, businesses and other community organizations for projects that protect and enhance watershed health at the local level. Groups can use grant money for supplies, materials, equipment, room rentals, feasibility studies or technical assistance.
Past projects include education and monitoring, ecoroofs, stormwater features, restoration, and naturescaping.
Community Watershed Stewardship Project Types
Ecoroofs
Vegetated roof systems that replace conventional roofs and collect, filter and evaporate rainfall reduce stormwater runoff.
* Friends of Portland Community Gardens Kiosk Project
* Friends of Trees Holistic Stormwater Demonstration
* People’s Food Cooperative
* Hawthorne Youth Hostel
Stormwater Features
On-site stormwater management through “green” practices is vital to Portland’s watershed health. These projects on developed sites include anything from swales and disconnected downspouts to pervious pavers.
* St. Philip Neri Bioswale
* David Douglas High School Downspout Disconnect
* Sabin Community Playground Improvement Project
Education/ Monitoring
Innovative workshops, curricula, video, creative writing, art projects, special events, interpretive signs and data collection for watershed projects are essential to creating a community of watershed stewards.
* Zenger Farm - Wetland Education
* Open Meadow Columbia Slough Monitoring
* Willamette Riverkeeper - Clean Boater Action Guides
* Saturday Academy - North Portland Tree Stewardship
Restoration
These natural area projects focus on removing invasive plants, planting native vegetation, and ongoing site maintenance.
* Portland Community College – Restoration of Sylvania Park
* Bridlemile Creek Stewards – Albert Kelly Park Restoration
* Lents Springwater Corridor Restoration
Naturescaping
Naturescaping on community sites demonstrates the importance of landscaping with native plants.
What is Stewardship?
Watershed stewardship means working together to honor our responsibility to Portland's streams, watersheds, neighborhoods and natural areas. Only the wise actions and choices of individuals like you can give us healthy watersheds and clean rivers and streams. Though your individual actions may seem simple, when combined with the rest of the community's efforts, the results are incredible.
Category:City Governments
Category:Oregon
Category:Portland
Category:Programs
Category:Wetlands
Portland, OR Recycling

Type: Ordinance
Status: Adopted on 6/18/04
Source File: http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?c=28889#cid_19263
Text:
Solid Waste and Recycling Collection
Policy and Purpose:
A. To continue to set recycling goals for Portland that are among the most challenging in the nation. 
 
B. To achieve a recycling goal of 60 percent in 2005.
 
C. In the year 2005, reevaluate the recycling goal and set an aggressive goal for 2010.
 
D. To ensure the safe and sanitary collection, transportation and recovery of Solid Waste, recyclable and yard debris materials.
 
E. To provide Portland residents and businesses the opportunity to recycle more materials through convenient on-site, curbside and depot collection programs and through the addition of recyclable materials to the curbside collection program as appropriate.
 
F. To establish and enforce Solid Waste, recyclable and compostable material collection standards to ensure uniform, cost effective and high quality service delivery to all residential customers. 
 
G. To establish rates for residential waste collection which are fair to the public, encourage waste reduction, and promote safe, efficient collection. 
 
H. To promote community awareness in order to achieve the highest participation possible in the Solid Waste and recycling collection system.
 
I. To enhance waste reduction and recycling in the multifamily, commercial, institutional and industrial sectors by ensuring that comprehensive recycling systems are provided at every establishment not covered by the residential franchise, and that owners of the establishments encourage extensive use of those systems by all employees.
 
J. To undertake research, studies and demonstration projects on developing more efficient, economical and effective methods of waste reduction, recycling and waste collection. 
Category:City Governments
Category:Ordinances
Category:Oregon
Category:Portland
Category:Recycling
Portland, OR Tree Regulatory Project

Type: Policy
Status: Initiated in 2004
Source File: http://www.portlandonline.com/planning/index.cfm?c=46921&a=188128
Description:
Tree Regulatory Project Background
The Tree Regulatory Improvement Project is one of a broad list of directives outlined in the Urban Forestry Management Plan and Action Strategy. The project is a multi-bureau effort to review the current system of regulations, and address complexities, gaps, and inconsistencies through a comprehensive update and refinement of several titles of the city code.
The Portland Urban Forestry Management Plan (UFMP) was issued in 2004. This plan provides direction for the maintenance and improvement of Portland's urban forest and makes recommendations to enhance and improve this valuable resource. In 2006, an inter-bureau committee was formed to ensure that the goals and recommendations of the 2004 plan were actualized. The committee generated desired outcomes and actions to serve the goals outlined in the UFMP. The actions of the plan were assigned priority and timelines for completion based on their need, available funding and resources. The proposed Urban Forest Action Plan was accepted by City Council on March 14, 2007.
The Tree Regulatory Improvement Project is a major component of achieving Goal 1 of the UFMP;
* Goal 1 is to "Protect, Preserve, Restore, and Expand Portland's Urban Forest."
:* Outcome A under this goal seeks to optimize the urban forest canopy.
:* Outcome B stipulates that the city will have "a comprehensive, consistent, and clear regulatory program for trees."
:* Outcome C calls for enhancing the urban forest "through development and redevelopment".
While the Tree Regulatory Improvement Project was anticipated to be completed within a 5-year period, citizens and neighborhood groups urged a more immediate solution. Council approved the first year of the two-year project funding in Fiscal Year 2007-08. Council directed the Bureau of Planning to lead the project in close collaboration with the Bureau of Development Services, Portland Parks and Recreation, and Bureau of Environmental Services.
This project reaches across City bureaus and into the community to ensure that an effective and consistent set of regulations will result. Moreover, the project acknowledges that not all the solutions rely on regulatory tools. Other solutions will be considered including programmatic incentives, administrative restructuring, procedural streamlining and educational outreach, among others. These solution options will be presented in a package for review and will be posted in the Documents section once they have been drafted.
Category:City Governments
Category:Oregon
Category:Policies
Category:Portland
Category:Trees and Forests
Portland, OR and Multnomah County Global Warming Action Plan

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted in April 2001
Source File: http://www.portlandonline.com/shared/cfm/image.cfm?id=112115
Introduction:
Global climate change presents one of the foremost
threats—economically, socially and environmentally—
of the new century. Increases in the
concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are
expected to result in substantially higher temperatures,
more frequent intense storms, rising sea levels, and
changes in water flows and quality. There is broad
agreement in the scientific community that human
activities are contributing to these changes, largely by
releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere through
burning fossil fuels to generate electricity, manufacture
goods, heat our homes, and power our vehicles.
A Local Plan
In 1993 Portland became the first U.S. city to adopt a plan
to reduce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Early in 2001
Multnomah County joined these efforts, identifying climate
change as a key element in its overall sustainability
initiative. Nearly 400 municipal governments worldwide
have joined Portland and Multnomah County in adopting
climate-change mitigation goals. Together, these communities
represent more than seven percent of global greenhouse
gas emissions. While the actions of any single
municipality can impact only a small fraction of emissions,
this collaboration of a large number of urban areas
can achieve meaningful reductions.
Portland’s 1993 CO2 reduction strategy established a
reduction target of 20 percent below 1990 emissions by
2010. Today, seven years into the City’s original plan, we
have far to go. Although impressive achievements in energy
efficiency, transportation, recycling, and tree planting have
helped reduce per capita emissions, rapid population
growth has led to an overall increase in CO2 emissions
since 1990 (see Figure 1).
Portland and Multnomah County’s Goal
Largely because of rapid population growth, this plan
adopts a more realistic reduction target of 10 percent
below 1990 levels. This target is still more aggressive than
the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, which, though not ratified by the
U.S. Senate, sets a national reduction goal of seven percent
below 1990 levels by 2008 to 2012.
As aggressive as it is, Portland and Multnomah County’s
greenhouse gas-reduction goal must be viewed as only the
beginning. Reducing emissions to 10 percent below 1990
levels will slow the accumulation of greenhouse gases, but
the atmospheric concentration of those gases will continue
to rise. To stabilize atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases
will require a reduction in emissions of 60 to 70 percent
from 1990 levels.
Category:City-County Governments
Category:Climate Policy
Category:Multnomah County
Category:Oregon
Category:Policies
Category:Portland
Portugal

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portugal
* https://www.google.com/maps/place/Portugal
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* http://www.theguardian.com/world/portugal
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* http://www.lonelyplanet.com/portugal
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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nationally_determined_contribution
* https://www.un.org/en/climatechange/all-about-ndcs
* https://unfccc.int/process-and-meetings/the-paris-agreement/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs/nationally-determined-contributions-ndcs
	
EU First NDC (2020 - Updated Submission) 
EU First NDC (2016 - Archived) 
INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Portugal's INDC plan - SUBMISSION BY THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS 28 MEMBER STATES 
* http://www.mapsopensource.com/portugal?url=portugal
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a0/EU-Portugal_with_islands_circled.svg/1024px-EU-Portugal_with_islands_circled.svg.png
Category:Portugal
Category:Lisbon
Category:Europe
Category:Location
Category:Countries
Category:Agricultural Economics
Category:Ecological Economics
Category:Economic Development
Category:Human Rights
Category:INDC
Poudre School District, CO Ethic of Sustainability

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted in 2000
Source File: http://www.psd.k12.co.us/services/operations/sustainabledesign.aspx
Summary:
Poudre School District is committed to being a responsible steward of our natural resources and believes that public education should provide leadership in developing an ethic of sustainability in all of its practices. In Poudre School District, we have both Energy Conservation and Waste Management policies that espouse these values, making environmental stewardship an integral part of the physical plan operation. The purpose of the Sustainable Design Guidelines is to provide direction for applying these policies to the construction of new facilities and the renovation of existing schools.
As stewards of the natural environment, Poudre School District challenges the design community to help us build better schools. We believe that by working together in an integrated approach, we can build higher performance schools that provide a superior learning environment, while reducing life cycle costs through conservation of energy and natural resources.
We recognize that sustainable design may require a fundamental shift from certain aspects of conventional design and construction. However, we stand committed to sustainable design and are confident it will yield positive outcomes for our students and the community. Poudre School District is excited about this new direction. We look forward to working with you to achieve our goals of designing, building, and learning from sustainable schools.
Check out the district's 69-page Sustainable Design Guidelines.
Category:Building Standards
Category:Colorado
Category:Policies
Category:School Districts
Poulsbo, WA Adopts Smart Growth Goals

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 5/8/02
Source File: http://www.cityofpoulsbo.com/CityCouncil/PDFsDOCs/Ord2002/Res2002-03.pdf
Text:
RESOLUTION NO. 2002-03
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF POULSBO, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING THE CONCEPTS AS CONTAINED IN THE KITSAP SMART GROWTH COALITION’S JANUARY 2002 GOALS
WHEREAS, the Kitsap Smart Growth Coalition is an informal working group which consists of members from the Puget Sound Water Quality Action Team, Kitsap Citizens for Responsible Planning, Home Builders Association of Kitsap County, Kitsap County Association of Realtors, Hood Canal Environmental Council, Kitsap County Board of Commissioners, League of Women Voters, Kitsap Transit, The Sun, 1000 Friends of Washington, Kitsap Regional Economic Development Council, Kitsap County Consolidated Housing Authority, Kitsap Cities; and
WHEREAS, the Kitsap Smart Growth Coalition work group has, over the past two years, collaborated to sponsor educational forums in Kitsap County and has produced a set of concepts to guide development decisions which is entitled “Smart Goals-January 2002”; and
WHEREAS, it is appropriate that participating organizations adopt the Coalition’s concepts as contained in their January 2002 goals in order to endorse, promote and educate the citizens of Kitsap County on Smart Growth; now therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF POULSBO, WASHINGTON, HEREBY RESOLVES to:
1. Endorse and adopt the concepts set forth in the Kitsap Smart Growth Coalition’s “Smart Goals-January 2002” (Exhibit A included in the source file); and
2. Commit to continued participation in the efforts of the Kitsap Smart Growth Coalition and the refinement of goals and practices that institute broad based, state of the art decisions about growth that are economically sound, environmentally responsible and support community livability for the future of the City of Poulsbo.
Category:City Governments
Category:Resolutions
Category:Smart Growth
Category:Washington
Prince George, British Columbia Community Energy System

Type: Policy
Status: A draft proposal
Source File: http://www.city.pg.bc.ca/city_services/utilities/communityenergy/
Description:
A community energy system (CES) or district energy system produces hot water at a central plant and then pipes that energy out to the buildings for space heating and domestic hot water heating. A benefit is that individual buildings don't need their own boilers or furnaces since the CES does that work for them. Another benefit is that the community energy plant can use renewable fuels such as biomass, or pellets.
With escalating prices and the depletion of fossil fuels, the CES provides flexibility so that Prince George can increasingly minimize its reliance on fossil fuels and vulnerability to increasing prices. As the system grows the community can utilize other sources of energy like waste heat from local mills providing benefits to both the community and local industry - changing to use the most cost effective and environmentally sound sources of energy.
There is an excellent opportunity to develop a community energy system in Prince George
* Relatively Dense Downtown Core;
* A Large Number of Publicly Funded Buildings in Close Proximity;
* A Large Amount of Biomass Available in the Region;
* Natural Gas Costs are Volatile;
* Energy Dollars Are Currently Leaving The Community;
* Improved Regional and Local Air Quality.
Scope of Project
The proposed project is a new hot water Community Energy System (CES).
The CES will be located entirely within the City of Prince George, British Columbia, in an area bordered by the downtown core. It will include Energy Transfer Stations (ETS) in the buildings, a Distribution Pipe System (DPS), and a Central Energy Plant (location: 5th ave and Scotia St) that will have a multi-fuel boiler.
The Central Energy Plant will be built to meet the LEEDS Silver standard and will achieve energy performance standards of 25% better than Model National Energy Code.
The energy supplied to customers by the CES will be derived from wood pellets and biomass produced within the immediate Prince George region. 
On an annual basis, the total thermal energy supplied to customers will be approximately 9,010 MWh thermal, displacing approximately 48,000 GJ of natural gas that would be consumed by the buildings for space heating and domestic hot water.
Prince George Community Energy System Presentation
Category:British Columbia
Category:Canada
Category:City Governments
Category:Energy Policy
Category:Policies
Princeton University, NJ Passport to the Arts

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.princeton.edu/odus/activities/initiatives/passport_to_the_arts/
Description:
The Passport to the Performing Arts program, sponsored and administered by the Offices of the Deans of Undergraduate and Graduate Students, allows students to attend a number of world-class performances on campus each year at no charge. Passes are distributed to all undergraduate and graduate students during the fall semester.
Only student performance organizations can apply to make their event Passport to the Arts eligible. Interested groups should make an appointment with ODUS in order to apply.
To apply, a representative of the student organization may stop by ODUS to arrange an appointment with Shelley Jannos. Once the appointment is arranged, the student must come to the office prepared with the following information:
* Student organization sponsor
* Name of an event
* Location
* Date
* Time
* Ticket price
Category:Colleges
Category:Culture
Category:New Jersey
Category:Princeton
Category:Programs
Princeton University, NJ Sustainability Plan

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted in February 2008
Source File: http://www.princeton.edu/sustainability/plan/
Description:
With its 380-acre main campus, more than 160 building, approximately 7,100 students, and 5,400 employees, the University has significant environmental impact. As a major research university Princeton has a responsibility to shape the national sustainability agenda and to promote environmental leadership on its campus. The University has an additional responsibility to prepare its students to do their part to protect the planet's natural resources.
The most fundamental contribution the University will make will come from the research of faculty and students that develops sustainable strategies and technologies for global solutions, especially in the energy sector. The campus can serve as both a model for advanced practices and as a laboratory for students and faculty to test new approaches.
The Sustainability Plan grew out of the efforts of the Princeton Sustainability Committee, which was established in 2002 by President Shirley M. Tilghman. Consisting of students, faculty, and staff, the committee realized that exemplary campus stewardship and preparing Princeton's students to become engaged environmental citizens required a comprehensive plan.
In 2006, Shana Weber joined the staff as the University's first sustainability manager and established the Office of Sustainability. She began working with the committee to organize 10 working groups of students, faculty, and staff that assessed existing stewardship initiatives and potential opportunities across the institution. The three priority areas identified in the Sustainability Plan - greenhouse gas emissions reduction; resource conservation; and research, education, and civic engagement - emerged from that assessment.
The plan provides the framework for members of the University community, individually and collectively, to help Princeton play a leading role in the global effort to achieve a sustainable future for everyone.
We are currently implementing the Sustainability Plan. To keep up to date on our progress tale a look at our Plan in Action.
brochure (color, 8-page PDF)
full document (10-page PDF)
Category:Colleges
Category:New Jersey
Category:Policies
Category:Princeton
Category:Sustainability Policies