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Roanoke, VA Engine and Equipment Idling Policy

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted on 7/1/04
Source File: Click here
Text:
Idling of fleet vehicles and equipment contributes to poor air quality, consumes fuel unnecessarily, and is harmful to engines. It is the responsibility of all city personnel to operate fleet equipment in an environmentally and economically sound manner.
City fleet vehicles and equipment shall not be parked with their engine operating for more than five minutes unless it is essential for performance of work. When engines must be left operating, for any reason other than public safety concerns, the operator must remain with the vehicle/equipment. Violators are subject to disciplinary action under city Personnel Operating Procedures (POPs).
Category:City Governments
Category:Gas-Powered Transportation
Category:Policies
Category:Virginia
Rochester, MN Riverside Concerts

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.riversideconcerts.com/
Description:
Artistic Vision Statement
Riverside Concerts is a City department that provides the community with opportunities for high quality, diverse, and accessible musical and educational programs. The department offers a broad range of concerts, performance opportunities for area musicians, and artistic support services that help make Rochester a more livable community and contribute to the quality of life of its citizens. The department also seeks to expose audiences to the creative process in its many forms -- what and how others create, and to engage the citizens in creative acts. Both a presenter and producer, Riverside Concerts values the diversity of cultural expression and traditions, fosters the preservation and advancement of diverse musical genres, creates a sense of welcoming and belonging, enhances the enjoyment of life, and celebrates community when programming events. 
Mission
The Music Department's mission is codified in Section 18 of the Rochester Code of Ordinances. The mandate of Riverside Concerts is to: 
* Develop, organize, promote and administer a comprehensive, coordinated music program for the City.
* Provide music for the general public within the limits of the funds made available for that purpose.
* Promote and encourage all music and musical activities of a public nature in the city of Rochester and vicinity.
* Accept gifts and bequests for the benefit of the music program.
* Incur obligations for commodities and services to the extent authorized in its budget by the Common Council provided, however, that all proceedings in connection with contracts which must be let upon advertisement and public bids shall be by the Common Council.
* Take possession and assume responsibility for all property now or hereafter acquired and devoted exclusively to the music program of the City.
Organizational Values
Riverside Concerts strives to offer programs and services that help make Rochester a more livable community and contribute to the quality of life of its citizens. To that end, the Department endeavors to provide the a music program that:
* Values the diversity of cultural expression and traditions.
* Fosters the preservation and the advancement of a broad spectrum of art forms, genres, and methods.
* Creates a sense of welcoming and belonging.
* Enhances the enjoyment of life.
* Celebrates community.
Check out the "background info" tab to learn about the history of Rochester's Riverside Concerts.
Category:City Governments
Category:Culture
Category:Minnesota
Category:Programs
Rock Hill, SC Environmental Education

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.ci.rock-hill.sc.us/dynSubPageSub.aspx?deptID=9999&pLinkID=251&parentID=17
Description:
Programs & Events
The City of Rock Hill through the Rock Hill Clean & Green Board has a full-time Environmental Educator on staff to teach children and adults alike how they can do their part to keep Rock Hill Clean & Green. Rock Hill Clean & Green partners with York County Collection & Recycling and the Culture & Heritage Museums in providing Environmental Education programs. Education truly is the key to increasing recycling, preventing litter and protecting our environment.
Classroom Presentations
A variety of subjects ranging from water quality to recycling to litter prevention are available for all schools in York County. Presentations include:
Environmental Education Liaison Program
A liaison network of over 100 teachers throughout York County is maintained to help keep teachers and students in ALL York County schools informed about the environmental education resources and activities that are available to them.
Community Groups and Other Organizations
Rock Hill Clean & Green's Environmental Educator is also available to speak to community groups and other organizations about all of the environmental subjects listed above, as well as how recycling and litter prevention works in the City of Rock Hill.
Green Steps Program
Rock Hill Clean & Green has partnered with Ebinport Elementary, South Pointe High School and Northwestern High School and the Green Steps Program. Through these projects schools have taken steps toward sustainable environmental programs including recycling, composting and plants in every classroom. For more information see the Green Steps website at http://www.greenstepschools.com
Category:City Governments
Category:Programs
Category:South Carolina
Category:Sustainability Policies
Rockville, MD Rockville Chorus

Type: Program
Status: Established in 1972
Source File: http://rockvillechorus.org/
Description:
Who We Are
* The Rockville Chorus is sponsored by the City of Rockville Department of Recreation and Parks, Arts Division (since 1972). 
* The Rockville Chorus is led through the professional direction of Bryan Seith (since 1991) and piano accompaniment by Dick Gilbert.
* The Rockville Chorus is comprised of approximately 50 volunteer members who have been selected via an audition process and enjoy performing a varied repertoire.
* The Rockville Chorus Board (comprised of chorus members) provides administration for the organization.
What We Do
* Provide free choral concerts for the Rockville community and regional audiences. 
* Present two concerts annually (May and December) in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Theatre at Rockville Civic Center Park.
* Perform many other concerts throughout the immediate region in a variety of venues.
* Sing a varied repertoire that often features works from leading composers including Bach, Britten, Mozart, Rutter, Hindemuth, Thompson, Vaughan Williams, Shaw, as well as many others. The Rockville Chorus also periodically performs/introduces works by local composers.
* Rehearse weekly Monday evenings at the Rockville Senior Center (1150 Carnation Drive).
* Pay a membership fee of approximately $50 each season (Fall & Spring) directly to the Rockville Chorus treasury.
Outreach
* The Rockville Chorus maintains an outreach group called the Rockville Singers consisting of 20-30 voices. This smaller scale group performs at venues that are not large enough to accommodate the entire 50 member Chorus. The Rockville Singers (formed in 1999) perform eight to ten times a year and present a different repertoire of music from the Rockville Chorus.
Category:City Governments
Category:Culture
Category:Maryland
Category:Programs
Rodney District, New Zealand "Create Your Own Eden" Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://rodney.govt.nz/EnvironmentalCare/education/Pages/EnvironmentCoursesEvents.aspx
Description:
The Rodney District Council is offering free composting and worm farming workshops and ‘drop in advice centres’ across the Rodney district. The workshops and advice centres will help you learn how to turn kitchen and garden waste into nutrient-rich fertiliser for productive gardens and strong, healthy plants.
We will also have advice centres at a variety of events across the district and Warkworth Mitre 10 – just drop in between the times indicated below – no booking required.
If you are unable to make one of the workshops and would like a free Create Your Own Eden booklet containing lots of useful tips and website links please contact us and we can post a copy to you. Alternatively, you may download the booklet from http://CreateYourOwnEden.org.nz
Category:Composting
Category:Councils
Category:New Zealand
Category:Programs
Rohnert Park, CA Adopting Green Building Compliance Thresholds

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 2/27/07
Vote: Unanimous (with 1 absent)
Source File: http://www.rpcity.org/images/stories/green_building/GBOfinalResosOnly.pdf (p. 6)
Text:
Category:Building Standards
Category:California
Category:City Governments
Category:Resolutions
Rolfe and Wellman, IA Vote to Approve Municipal Electricity

Type: Ballot Initiatives
Status: Passed 182 to 19 in Rolfe and 470 to 159 in Wellman, both on 11/2/04
Summary:
Everyone knows that President Bush was reelected on November 2nd but did you know that voters in three municipalities voted to take control of their electric systems? In Rolfe, Iowa (pop. 675), the vote was 182-19, in Wellman, Iowa (pop. 1,393) the vote was 470-159, and in Auburn, New York (pop. 28,574) the vote was 4,726-987 to allow their cities to form municipally-owned power companies. The two Iowa cities already control their natural gas utilities so the move toward electricity should be a natural extension. Auburn voters hope that electricity costs can be cut dramatically through a combination of local control and ownership of the electric distribution system and the development of renewable energy and efficiency projects. The American Public Power Association says that only 46 municipalities have successfully established public power agencies in the last 20 years.
In the midwest, residents in Rolfe and Wellman, Iowa, will be expanding their local control of energy into the electricity sector. Each city currently operates their natural gas utilities. Both communities are currently receiving their electric service from Alliant Energy. News reports indicate that more than a dozen cities in Iowa have been considering taking control of their electric systems since a feasibility study and financial analysis released in 2003 showed that 19 Iowa cities could at least break even and, in some cases, realize substantial savings if they formed municipally-owned utilities. The study was completed by Latham & Associates (Cedar Rapids, IA). The cost was shared by the cities based on their size.
The next step for the two Iowa communities is to start negotiations with Alliant to buy out the investor-owned utilities assets. If a deal is unable to be struck, the cities could take their case to the Iowa Utilities Board.
Category:Ballot Initiatives
Category:City Governments
Category:Iowa
Category:Municipal Electricity
Romania

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romania
* https://www.google.com/maps/place/Romania
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* http://www.theguardian.com/world/romania
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* http://www.lonelyplanet.com/romania
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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 (2017 - Archived) 
INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Romania's INDC plan - SUBMISSION BY LATVIA AND THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION ON BEHALF OF THE EUROPEAN UNION AND ITS 28 MEMBER STATES 
* http://www.mapsopensource.com/romania?url=romania
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Category:Romania
Category:Europe
Category:Location
Category:Countries
Category:Agricultural Economics
Category:Ecological Economics
Category:Economic Development
Category:Human Rights
Category:INDC
Round Rock, TX Updates Tree Ordinance

Type: Ordinance
Status: Last revised in 2005
Source File: http://www.roundrocktexas.gov/home/index.asp?page=1154
Description:
Round Rock updated its tree ordinance in 2005. With the City's population and development growth, the original tree ordinance was not comprehensive enough to confront the many new challenges presented by such rapid economic development.
The former ordinance left much to interpretation, and the new document provides more concrete guidelines for tree protection during the construction process. The ordinance was needed to broaden tree protections, especially for older trees, but also provides more mitigation options for developers.
Major changes to tree ordinance
The new ordinance is very similar to the old one, but does make some changes. The new tree ordinance:
* Designates a protected monarch tree category. A tree is designated a monarch tree by the forestry manager and is selected if it its diameter represents 80 percent of the diameter of a species' largest and healthiest tree in the City of Round Rock. A monarch tree can only be removed with City Council authorization.
* Requires that the removal of any tree 8 to 19 inches in diameter be replaced according to a 1:1 replacement ratio. Trees 20 inches or more in diameter must be replaced by a ratio of 3:1. For example, if an existing 12 inch tree is removed, 12 inches of tree replacement results. If an existing 20 inch tree is removed, 60 inches of tree replacement results. 
* Excluding monarchs, allows for the removal of up to 30 percent of the total diameter inches of protected trees without replacement for subdivision infrastructure improvements and site plans on lots greater than 15,000 square feet. 
* On undeveloped lots less than 15,000 square feet, establishes all trees 20 inches or more in diameter as protected trees. 
* Increases the mitigation fee from $125 to $150 per caliper inch for tree removal if trees cannot be planted on the site.
Existing property owners
The revised ordinance will effect existing property owners only if there is a designated monarch tree on the homeowner's property. If the forestry manager has designated a tree on a homeowner's property as a monarch tree (see above for definition of monarch tree), the tree is protected and can only be removed with City Council authorization.
Category:City Governments
Category:Ordinances
Category:Texas
Category:Trees and Forests
Round Rock Independent School District, TX Watt Watcher Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.roundrockisd.org/home/index.asp?page=3010
Description:
The Watt Watcher Program in brief
Elementary Campuses
The basic program gets your students to patrol the school looking for empty classrooms with the lights on. They turn out the lights and leave a reminder ticket for the teacher (or a thank you note if the lights are consistently out). The students keep track of their patrol numbers; number of lights on in use, number of lights on not in use and lights out.
Secondary Campuses
The older students perform energy audits. Auditing the number of lights on or off in areas and making reports, then re-auditing on another date. Students do not pass out tickets at this level but still make valuable observations.
At both campus levels, there are experiments and curriculum available for students which can include solar power, studying the green house effect, how to read an electric meter, doing energy audits at home and many more. The entire program is free and sponsored by the State Energy Conservation Office (SECO).
Category:Energy Policy
Category:Programs
Category:School Districts
Category:Texas
Rowan University, NJ Recycling Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.rowan.edu/rugreen/features/recycle.html
Description:
Recyclemania is sweeping the nation (no pun intended) and Rowan University has a front seat for the ride.
In 2006 Rowan placed third nationwide for waste minimization in Recyclemania, a nationwide campus competition, out of some 100 colleges and universities. The number of competing schools doubled during the 10-week competition in 2007 and Rowan still placed among the top 10 for minimizing waste across campus. Among competing colleges and universities in the northeast we placed 1st out of 30.
Surprised? Don't be. Rowan faculty, staff and students have made a commitment to recycle and it's evident from the President's office on down to every freshman dorm room.
"Recycling is the law in New Jersey but it's more than that," said John Imperatore, PE, Director of Facilities, Resource Management. "The less we send to the landfill and the more we recycle, the better use we make of our natural resources. It's just a waste to use something once and throw it in the trash."
Imperatore said in an effort to boost an already strong recycling rate the University in 2007 bought 17 new metal recycling units, each partitioned to separate recyclable cans, bottles and containers from trash.
But the 17 new units are just a start.
Throughout the year Rowan hosts activities that are either designed with recycling in mind or recast to change wasteful practices of the past.
For example, at dormitories all around Rowan we now have Move-In Cardboard Capture, an annual event to save the hundreds if not thousands of boxes that formerly went in the trash.
"We captured three tons of cardboard during the two days of freshman move-in in 2006," Imperatore said.
Then there's Homecoming, a zero-waste event in which virtually every bit of paper, wood, wire and paint is stripped down from parade floats and recycled.
"The lifespan of those floats is about 12 hours," Imperatore said. "We guide them not to build tanks because they must be disassembled. We filled four, 40-foot dumpsters in 2006. That's a lotta stuff."
Category:Colleges
Category:New Jersey
Category:Programs
Category:Recycling
Rush Township, PA abolish corporate constitutional rights

Type: Ordinance
Status: Adopted on 9/27/06
Source File: (Missing)
Summary:
Chambersburg, Pennsylvania (September 28) – On September 27th, 2006, the Board of Supervisors for Rush Township in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, passed a law declaring that sludge and dredge corporations possess no constitutional “rights” within the community. Rush thus becomes the sixth local government in the country to abolish the illegitimate “rights” and legal privileges claimed by corporations. Corporate managers in Pennsylvania and around the nation effortlessly wield those constitutional “rights” and legal privileges to dictate corporate values and nullify local laws.
The Rush Township law also (1) bans corporations from engaging in the land application of sludge within the Township; (2) recognizes that ecosystems in Rush possess enforceable rights against corporations; (3) asserts that corporations doing business in Rush will henceforth be treated as “state actors” under the law, and thus, be required to respect the rights of people and natural communities within the Township; and (4) establishes that Rush residents can bring lawsuits to vindicate not only their own civil rights, but also the newly-mandated rights of Nature.
In the ordinance, the Township Board of Supervisors declared that if state and federal agencies – or corporate managers – attempt to invalidate the ordinance, a Township-wide public meeting would be hosted to determine additional steps to expand local control and self-governance within the Township. 
Category:Corporate Accountability
Category:Pennsylvania
Category:Ordinances
Category:Townships
Russian Federation

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia
* https://www.google.com/maps/place/Russia
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: Russia - News from the Guardian
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* http://www.lonelyplanet.com/russia
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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
Russian Federation First NDC (2020 - Russian) 
Russian Federation First NDC (2020 - Translation, English) 
INDC
Intended Nationally Determined Contributions (INDCs) -- 2015 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
 Russia's INDC plan - DOC-1 -- DOC-2
* http://www.mapsopensource.com/russia?url=russia
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Category:Asia
Category:Europe
Category:Eurasia
Category:Russian Federation
Category:Location
Category:Countries
Category:Agricultural Economics
Category:Ecological Economics
Category:Economic Development
Category:Human Rights
Category:INDC
Rutgers University, NJ Committee to Advance Our Common Purposes

Type: Policy
Status: Established in 1987
Source File: http://studentaffairs.rutgers.edu/ctaocp.html
Description:
Founded in 1987, the Committee To Advance Our Common Purposes champions our individual and collective humanity and respect for our differences. The Committee, reporting to the office of the Vice President for Student Affairs, is committed to fostering intercultural relations while reducing acts of prejudice and bias. Since its founding in 1987 the Committee has championed the values which celebrate our differences as humanity while advancing our common purposes as a community. True to this mission, the Committee comprises a diverse representation of faculty, staff, students, and community members from the Camden, Newark, and New Brunswick Campuses. Among its goals are to:
* foster inter-cultural dialogue and relations across diverse people, campuses and communities
* promote the reduction of prejudice, hate and bias crimes
* celebrate the distinctness of cultures and vast richness of diversity through out Rutgers University
* enhance the ties that bind 'our common purposes' between Rutgers University and community
The Committee's goal of addressing issues that relate to fostering diversity is reflected in the many programs it sponsors. It continues to highlight the significance of diversity in the areas of: curriculum, community centered programs, education and training, campus climate research, grant supported programs, differential learning, national teleconference issue oriented programs, week long celebrations, and recognition for commitment to diversity. The committee continually seeks to develop innovative programs to advance our common purposes.
Mission Statement
To provide services and programs that engage students in active learning, build a supportive and inclusive community, support the emotional growth and personal development of students, and make a positive contribution to the quality of student life.
Vision Statement
Students graduate from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey with diverse intellectual and cultural competencies distinguished by character and integrity with a vision for leadership in the service of humanity.
Objectives
* Provide a wide range of services and programs to foster students' intellectual, personal and professional development.
* Promote a university environment enriched by diversity which is civil, respectful and supportive of all people.
* Ensure the health and well-being of all members of the Rutgers community.
* Provide support for students with special needs or circumstances.
* Coordinate the development of policies and standards to ensure a campus climate that is socially and academically conducive to student learning and growth, and the faculty, staff, alumni, family and friends who nurture them.
* Provide information which is accessible in various formats to all university constituents.
Category:Colleges
Category:Diversity
Category:New Jersey
Category:Policies