The following Q&A was generated by a question that Maurie Cohen posted June 8, 2017, and generated several responses.
https://scorai.net/wp-content/uploads/wordpress/Local-Planning-for-Sustainable-Consumption-6.14.17B.pdf
The following Q&A was generated by a question that Maurie Cohen posted June 8, 2017, and generated several responses.
https://scorai.net/wp-content/uploads/wordpress/Local-Planning-for-Sustainable-Consumption-6.14.17B.pdf
Some great ideas have been offered. A few additional thoughts:
1) regulating house size and providing incentives for accessory dwelling units can help to reduce the material and energy impacts of a community’s housing stock as well as providing some affordable options;
2) interventions to reduce the wasting of food address one of the most carbon-intensive materials people buy and waste. You could suggest educational campaigns, local investment in food storage and handling infrastructure, coordinated policies among institutional food purchasers (schools, hospitals, etc.)
3) Encourage your local government to adopt or refine its sustainable procurement policy/program to be climate friendly – there are lots of tools out there to inform this including the EPA Forum’s Climate Friendly Purchasing Toolkit
4) Measure and report emissions using a consumption-based emissions inventory – this provides a basis for community discussion and goal setting that illustrates the climate-consumption connection. Some models and tools are available to help conduct such an inventory.