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Carbondale, CO Energy and Climate Protection Plan

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted
Source File: Click here
Text:
Shown below is the Executive Summary only. To access the entire 17-page document, refer to the source file.
The Town of Carbondale joined the Cities for Climate Protection Campaign in the
summer of 2005 and committed to developing an emissions reduction strategy. The
Town then asked CORE to develop an emissions inventory (Appendix A). The
Environmental Board took on the issue of creating a local energy plan and organized
Carbondale’s first Energy Extravaganza. Over 150 people attended the event in
November 2005 and brainstormed initial ideas for the energy plan. Over the last 6
months Carbondale citizens, led by CORE and the Environmental Board, have been
working on the creation of an “Energy Plan”, which outlines steps for Carbondale to
significantly reduce emissions, become more energy independent, and strengthen the
economy in the process.
This plan provides a broad, long term vision, as well as intermediate steps for attaining
these goals. It is founded on input from over 150 community members, the Carbondale
Environmental Board, experts in the energy industry, and the elected officials in the
Town of Carbondale. The plan will evolve and continue to be refined over time, but lays
out a framework and steps, to significantly improve Carbondale’s carbon footprint.
The Energy Plan proposes five key strategies:
:1. Lead by example. Municipal government should make its buildings and operations a model of energy efficiency and renewable energy while reducing energy costs. Government can be the early adopter, making it easier for more households and businesses to adopt practices once they see they work.
:2. Change the rules that influence energy use. Many aspects of energy use are the result of rules (policies, ordinances, regulations) that were made over time. Change these rules and we significantly change how we use energy. This plan recommends that the Town upgrade various ordinances and regulations that influence energy use, where useful adopt new ones, and where appropriate, join with others to address issues beyond town boundaries.
:3. Partner with utilities and others to create programs to remove barriers to wiser energy use. The Town should work with Xcel Energy, Holy Cross Energy, CORE, and others to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future, offering programs to households and businesses that combine financing, technical assistance, and education.
:4. Increase local renewable energy supplies The Town, with the ability to tap significant funding, can view itself as a local energy producer and investor.
:5. Cultivate clean energy jobs and businesses. Carbondale can pursue implementation of this energy plan in ways that strengthen the community’s “green brand” and supports and creates local jobs. In addition, Carbondale can take active steps to support and grow sustainable energy enterprises.
Category:City Governments
Category:Colorado
Category:Energy Policy
Category:Policies
Carbondale, CO In Support of the Endangered Species Act

Type: Resolution
Status: Adopted on 3/14/06
Source File: Click here
Text:
RESOLUTION NO. 2006-4
A RESOLUTION OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE TOWN OF CARBONDALE, COLORADO, IN SUPPORT OF THE ENDANGERED SPECIES ACT.
WHEREAS: The United States, has a long and proud tradition of respect for the Earth’s wildlife and natural resources, and
WHEREAS: Our public lands system and our environmental laws are among the strongest in the world, representing a unique American legacy of conservation and sound land stewardship, and
WHEREAS: We have a responsibility to our children and future generations to be good stewards of our environment and to leave behind a legacy of protecting endangered species and the special places they call home, and
WHEREAS: The strength and vitality of the human environment is inextricably linked with the health of all species and the places they live, and
WHEREAS: Species extinction and habitat destruction are a serious threat to our own welfare. For example, native wildlife and plants are the source of most of our commonly-prescribed medicines and cutting-edge medicines for hard-to-cure diseases, and the extinction of theses species could mean the loss of life-saving drugs, and
WHEREAS: Since it was signed into law by President Nixon in 1973, the endangered Species Act has been a strong, science-based conservation statute serving as the nation’s safety net for endangered wildlife and plants, designed to protect endangered species and their habitat, and
WHEREAS: According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service data, endangered species protected by the Endangered Species Act are dramatically less likely to become extinct. The Endangered Species Act has a success rate of 99.3% at preventing extinction of these species, and
WHEREAS: The Endangered Species Act has effectively prevented the extinction of endangered species throughout Colorado and the United States, including the black-footed ferret, the greenback cutthroat trout, and the Colorado butterfly plant, and
WHEREAS: The Endangered Species Act has put hundreds of endangered wildlife and plants on the path to recovery, including the bald eagle, the peregrine falcon, and the Canada lynx, and
WHEREAS: The Endangered Species Act encourages and is compatible with programs that provide economic incentives to landowners engaged in effective endangered species and habitat conservation, and
WHEREAS: Programs that provide such economic incentives to landowners enjoy widespread support among diverse constituencies, and if implemented effectively can benefit both landowners and endangered species.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED: That the Carbondale Board of Trustees URGES Colorado’s Congressional delegation to support a strong Endangered Species Act so it may continue to protect our native wildlife and plants and the habitat on which they depend and to support enhancing programs providing economic incentives to landowners engaged in effective endangered species and habitat conservation.
Category:City Governments
Category:Colorado
Category:Resolutions
Category:Wildlife
Cardiff, Wales Developing a Climate Change Action Plan

Type: Policy
Status: In development
Source File: http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2870%2C3148%2C5340&parent_directory_id=2865
Description:
Climate change is one of the greatest threats to environmental, social and economic sustainability facing the world today. Rising global temperatures will bring changes in weather patterns, rising sea levels and increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events. The effects will be felt here in Cardiff and across Wales and the UK. Globally there may be severe problems in regions that are particularly vulnerable. We need to act now to adapt to climate change and to reduce the risk by reducing our contribution to greenhouses gas emissions.
The Cardiff Community Strategy 2007-17 commits the Council to work with partners to develop a climate change action plan, and work towards the aspiration of becoming a Carbon Lite Cardiff. This climate change action planning will incorporate both mitigation and adaptation measures.
Mitigation measures look at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. This can be achieved by reducing energy demand, implementing energy efficiency measures and by the use of renewable sources of energy.
Adaptation measures allow us to prepare for any likely climate impacts. In brief the anticipated changes in climate are:
* warmer, wetter winters;
* hotter, dryer summers;
* more extreme weather events.
We now need to identify the likely impacts from this changing climate and develop plans to deal with these effects of climate change.
; Action achieved:
* Cardiff Council signed the Welsh Declaration on Climate Change and Energy Efficiency in 2006.
* In 2006 the Council also joined the Carbon Trusts Local Authority Carbon Management Programme and in 2007 set a 60% reduction target for CO2 by 2018.
* In 2007 a Carbon Lite working group was established to provide steer for this climate change work. The group has membership from the Council, Environment Agency Wales, Mandix Consultancy, Cardiff University, and UWIC. This group reports back to the Community Strategy Vision Forum.
* In 2008 the Authority was selected to participate, along with four other local authorities, in the three year Changing Climate, Changing Places project coordinated by the WLGA / UKCIP. This project will focus mainly on adaptation measures along with some mitigation.
* There are plans to pilot a staff awareness campaign within Cardiff Council focusing on climate change mitigation issues, with the aim of replicating the campaign in organisations across Cardiff.
* Key partners for the success of becoming a Carbon Lite city are Community Strategy Partnerships and the local business community.
Category:City Governments
Category:Climate Policy
Category:Policies
Category:Wales
Category: United Kingdom
Cardiff, Wales World's First Fairtrade Capital

Type: Policy
Status: Adopted in March 2004
Source File: http://www.cardiff.gov.uk/content.asp?nav=2870%2C3148%2C4121&parent_directory_id=2865
Description:
Cardiff became the world's first Fairtrade Capital in March 2004, an award certified by the Fairtrade Foundation.
Fair Trade Cardiff is the partnership that worked towards this achievement. The partnership aims to increase awareness and understanding of fair trade issues, and to increase access to and use of fair trade products in Cardiff. Each year the partnership aims to do at least one major public event to promote Fairtrade Fortnight. In the past we have put on a Fair Trade 5K fun run, a Fair Trade Football Festival, and been visited by the Fair Trade Foundation's Fairtrade Bus.
There are now over 150 shops, cafes and organisations selling and using fairly traded products in Cardiff. Fair Trade Cardiff publishes the Cardiff Fair Trade Guide - a directory of where in the city you can buy fair trade products. An online map is also available of fair trade groups, organisations, and retailers in Wales.
Members of Fair Trade Cardiff include Cardiff Council, Cardiff Fair Trade Forum, CAFOD, Christian Aid, Fair-Do's, Oxfam Cymru, People & Planet, The Cooperative Group, and concerned individuals.
download:
: Fair trade leaflet(848k)
: Cardiff Fair Trade Guide(554k)
Category:City Governments
Category:Fair Trade
Category:Policies
Category:United Kingdom
Category:Wales
Carleton College, MN Diversity Initiative Group (DIG)

Type: Policy
Status: Initially approved on 10/17/06
Source File: http://apps.carleton.edu/governance/diversity/
Description:
What is DIG?
The Diversity Initiative Group (DIG) serves two important purposes at Carleton. DIG exists to discuss, assess and strengthen the College’s campus climate, work culture and institutional commitment to diversity. DIG also makes recommendations and proposals for changes in diversity policies and programs to College Council, of which it is a subcommittee. DIG is chaired by the President, and its members who are appointed by the President, are drawn from the faculty, staff and students. DIG meets monthly and its deliberations are reported at each College Council meeting.
Campus Climate Survey
Click on the above link for the most up-to-date information from the DIG Sub-Committee.
Statement on Diversity
Carleton College aspires to provide a liberal arts education that equips students with the skills to lead a fully realized life in a diverse and changing world. A Carleton education recognizes that the world’s people differ in their race and ethnicity, culture, political and social worldviews, religious and spiritual understandings, language and geographic characteristics, gender, gender identities and sexual orientations, learning and physical abilities, age, and social and economic classes.
It is essential to our high academic standards that we be committed to creating a diverse campus community because:
* Carleton has a responsibility to educate talented and diverse students, and we have a strong commitment to underrepresented groups.
* Carleton students must meaningfully encounter difference in order to grow personally and live fruitfully in society and contribute to its work.
The core principles of a liberal arts education are based on mutual respect, communication, and engagement, which commits us to create and affirm a culture of respect for people in all aspects of their lives. Carleton seeks to provide a welcoming and safe living and learning space, while we also recognize that the pursuit of a liberal arts education can involve discomfort and disagreement. Carleton affirms that the college and its community grow in understanding when established views are challenged.
A community that fosters diversity of thought and an open exchange of ideas can only emerge from the participation of individuals with different backgrounds and worldviews. Because creative and talented people come from many places and have many backgrounds, Carleton College is dedicated to attracting and retaining a diverse faculty, staff, student body, and Board of Trustees and sees this as among our highest priorities. Carleton’s commitment to diversity will sustain and enrich the learning and living environment that defines the institution and its place in the world.
Category:Colleges
Category:Diversity
Category:Minnesota
Category:Policies
Carlsbad, CA Citizens' Academy

Type: Program
Status: Launched in 2001
Source File: http://www.carlsbadca.gov/chall/4citizenacademy.html
Description:
The Carlsbad Citizens' Academy is a seven-week program, held on consecutive Thursday evenings from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., with the exception of one session that includes a citywide bus tour at 12 noon. The program is designed to teach how your city works on your behalf. You'll:
* Meet City council members, department heads, and staff
* Enjoy comprehensive overviews of departments and detailed descriptions of a wide array of programs and services
* Discover where we've been and where we're going in terms of development, traffic, growth management, recreation, the environment, and other topics of concern and interest
* Learn about issues that impact you ... and find out how you can have an impact on the issues
* Participate in lively discussions, role-playing, fun activities, and congenial conversation
* Tour city facilities and mingle with fellow students and staff at informal get-togethers
* Become an informed, involved citizen who can help make the city work for everyone
And did we mention ...
The Academy is free to Carlsbad residents!
Graduate to a higher level of municipal knowledge
The sessions will culminate in a commencement in which participants will receive a certificate and other mementos of the accomplishment. Participants will also have the opportunity to contribute in small group discussions with City council members. Class size is limited, and spaces are bound to fill up, so call 434-2800 today for information and registration. Applicants who do not get scheduled for the next session will be placed on an enrollment list for future sessions.
Check out the background info tab above to learn how the Citizens' Academy won an Emmy!
Category:California
Category:Citizen Academies
Category:City Governments
Category:Programs
Carlsbad, CA Three-Part-Art Program

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.carlsbadca.gov/arts/4art3part.html
Description:
The William D. Cannon Art Gallery's Three-Part-Art program is an educational outreach program designed to introduce elementary school students from Carlsbad -- especially third- and fourth-graders -- to the experience of interacting with and learning from original works of art in a museum setting. The children begin to learn some of the basics of the art vocabulary, and most importantly, that museums can be welcoming places to learn in new and exciting ways.
Here's how the multi-pronged program works. Before each school year begins, the Gallery curator and educator work together to identify the upcoming exhibitions that might be particularly resonant, appropriate, or engaging for students in third and fourth grades. Once the exhibitions and timetables are identified:
Part One
The Gallery sends a letter out to all elementary school teachers serving Carlsbad residents (which includes four different school districts), informing them about the program. Interested teachers then call the Arts Education Coordinator to "sign up" to participate. After registering for the program, the teacher is sent a curriculum guide which includes background information about the exhibition's topic or theme as well as related hands-on activities for use in the classroom. This curriculum guide is not only related to the specific exhibition, it also ties into the California State Department of Education Visual and Performing Arts Standards and the current elementary school curriculum. Using the curriculum guide in class, the teacher prepares the students for their upcoming visit to the Gallery.
Part Two
The schoolchildren, with their teachers and a number of accompanying parents, come for a tour of the exhibition in the Gallery -- an important interaction with original works of art in a professional museum setting. During their tour, they are guided by a trained artist/educator who not only discusses various ideas with the students, but also involves them in some type of interactive gallery activity.
Part Three
The schoolchildren, led by a different artist/instructor, then move to the adjoining Community Room to do a hands-on art activity related to the ideas, themes, or art techniques that were just discussed in the Gallery tour. This gives the students the opportunity to experience various art-making materials and techniques, and reinforces the lessons they just learned about during their Gallery tour.
During fiscal year 2005/6, approximately 4,500 students and 1,050 adults took part in the program, with more than 300 curriculum guides distributed to area teachers.
This award-winning program, which is offered FREE to the schools, is generously supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency; Mrs. Teresa M. Cannon; The Carlsbad Library and Arts Foundation; and the Carlsbad Friends of the Arts.
Category:California
Category:City Governments
Category:Culture
Category:Programs
Category:Youth
Carnegie Mellon University, PA "Sleep is Good" Initiative

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.cmu.edu/greenpractices/green_initiatives/sleepisgood/index.htm
Description:
What is "Sleep is Good"?
This is a Green Practices Initiative that is a simple way to save energy in one minute!
Our goal is to save 2 million kilowatt-hours (about $130,000 per year) through improved monitor management.
Reducing energy use by this amount is equivalent to:
* The energy used by 1,150 US Households during one month.
* CO2 reductions equal to preventing emissions from 140 cars.
* Planting 10 million square feet of trees.
Why Sleep
Computers and monitors, especially CRT monitors, are significant consumers of electricity. On our campus, there are as many as 20,000 computers, most of which have monitors. Anytime this equipment is left on when not in use, it wastes electricity. Green Practices hopes to educate the campus community about saving energy through better computer and monitor management.
A 17-inch monitor uses 100 Watts of electricity on average, which is roughly equal to an incandescent light bulb. While 100 Watts is not an enormous amount of electricity, it does become significant if a monitor is left on all the time. Since electricity is measured and billed in kilowatt-hours, if you use a 100 Watt monitor for one hour, you use 0.1 kilowatt-hours of electricity. If left on all the time (8760 hours per year) the monitor would use 876 kWh. We pay an average of 5 cents per kilowatt-hour for electricity; therefore the monitor's energy consumption would cost approximately $44 for one year.
One easy and obvious way to reduce the amount of electricity wasted is to switch off the monitor when you leave for lunch or go home for the day. However, most operating systems have a simple setting that makes your computer turn off the monitor for you, after it has not been used for a set period of time. We have found that many monitors do not have the energy saver enabled, and those that do have it set for 30 minutes, while we recommend using a setting of 10 minutes. By decreasing the time you keep your monitor turned on, you increase the energy saved. On average, allowing your monitor to go to sleep reduces energy use of your desktop computer by 72%! You can verify or activate your sleep time setting by following these instructions.
Changing your power management settings by even just a few minutes has an impact on how much energy you save. While the amount may be small for your computer, perhaps only $5 per year, when you consider the 20,000 monitors on campus that would be $100,000 saved overall. Carnegie Mellon can then use that money toward great things on campus, such as speakers, events, or other green initiatives. Also remember that using less energy means you are saving resources and helping to reduce air pollution.
Category:Carnegie Mellon
Category:Colleges
Category:Energy Policy
Category:Pennsylvania
Category:Programs
Carnegie Mellon University, PA Living Roofs

Type: Program
Status: Ongoing
Source File: http://www.cmu.edu/greenpractices/green_initiatives/living_roof.html
Description:
Living Roofs at Carnegie Mellon
A project initiated by the students is in the works that will retrofit some academic buildings with "green" roofs. A green roof reduces cooling and heating energy consumption, protects the roof's structural elements from UV rays, extends the life of the roof, and lowers storm water waste streams. Locations on Carnegie Mellon's campus include:
* The new Posner Center and Gallery
* Hamerschlag Hall
* Mellon Institute (tray system)
* Doherty Hall student demonstration trays
Category:Carnegie Mellon
Category:Building Standards
Category:Colleges
Category:Pennsylvania
Category:Programs