• focus on urgency of global warming issue
• Environmental impact reports didn’t always include CO2 emissions b/c not required to (rules changed recently)

• Town Hall meetings on this topic
• A fair for many of the ideas discussed at workshops, etc.
• Have neighborhood groups include reducing GHG emissions in their neighborhood association meetings

• Learn from our parents and grandparents who lived through the Depression, honor their past example
• City staff should be educated about how to make their office and home more sustainable and act as an example
• Integrity, transparency, visibility
• Demonstrations and fiscal sponsorship
• Pledge mission and vision
• Create a sister green city program
• Please send along ideas for state legislation to encourage other cities to adopt specific programs that work in Berkeley thus getting more people involved
• Improve what we already are committed to, example: put more money and staff focus to bike routes that are already in existence, similarly, retrofits are preferable to complete rebuilding and new developments
• Put more engineers to work
• Community must admit and accept need for change
• Low tech solutions; keep it simple and cost effective (e.g. lighting and insulation)
• Comprehensive look at sources of better and “biggest bang for buck”
• Support team processes like Low Carbon Diet and Green Teams
• Engage community from the bottom up
• Research possible financial assistance (from government, NGOs, foundations, etc.)
• Set up a Speakers’ Bureau
• Incentives are preferable to mandates
• Charge people for polluting (measure smog from each car on road and bill people, can go on cars or on street corners); first look into legal obstacles, then look into "remote sensing" technology
• Need behavior change that may require some personal sacrifice, saving energy is better than renewables/new energy energy audit of every building in city
• Need behavior change not sacrifice in comfort
• Health Fair promoting health through cycling, walking, urban gardening
• Encourage Berkeley businesses to encourage employees to carpool/bike/walk to work (provide incentives)
• Promote safe disposal of mercury light bulbs
• Reduce obesity which reduces consumption
• Local carbon offset fund

Alternative Energy:

Solar:

• City projects and subsidies for solar panel canopies over parking lots, over sidewalks in front of home as well as rooftops; as much solar as possible—it’s cost effective, especially as thermal panels that offset natural gas consumption
• City of Berkeley should have a map of all solar panels, like SF
• nuclear energy is not “carbon neutral” because of mining/transporting uranium, water usage, plus risk of accident

• Community Choice Aggregation (CCA) for solar hot water heaters, wind energy, etc. (like in SF)

• Work with residents to aggregate a large number of households to submit a collective REP to install solar water heating- basically promote an economy of scale in solar water heating installations
• Instantaneous electric water heaters that can be connected to a solar panel system are strongly discouraged by the building department (they require an in-depth analysis by a title 24 auditor and have very little in the way of information about how to go about doing such a thing). It shouldn’t be so much of a hassle.
• Start a fund that can provide low- or no-interest loans to Berkeley citizens to install solar energy systems on their residences or businesses. They fund can ultimately be a revolving fund so that as loans are paid off, new loans can be made.

• New wind technologies becoming more safe and efficient and is often more cost effective than solar. Small wind turbines (1-50 kW) could be installed in Berkeley if local laws permit
• Greater use of biofuels and improve blend ratio, increase all diesel powered vehicles and stationary motors (can start by converting and improving ALL city vehicles)
• Approve biodiesel station

• Make driving more prohibitive—there is so much single driver traffic
• State-wide satellite-based tracking of car emissions (charge for pollution/emissions)
• Car tax (or like what NYC is considering, charge vehicles a tax for coming into city)
• Paddle go-carts for city driving
• Don’t idle your car over 10 seconds—it wastes more gas than starting your car (about 17% of a tank of gas is used waiting at lights, etc.)
• Tax automobiles registered at Berkeley addresses

• Need for electrical vehicle shuttles (public transit) powered by renewable electricity sources (wind and sun)
• Set up businesses that convert and train to convert existing vehicles to electrically run vehicles
• Schools and city buildings powered by natural sunlight and other eco-friendly means
• Plug-in hybrids, plugs in downtown area where people could recharge

• More free, exclusive parking for electric vehicles only (like the two spots near city hall)
• City operate EV carshare program, paint them bright color and offer them as demos around the City
• Promote electric cars: their advantages; and where to find them
• City can support PHEV for its fleet

• small ‘buggie’ slow-moving cars for around town driving (like at gemcar.com)—very energy efficient, electric bill goes up a few dollars a month, have seat belts and can carry groceries

• solar panels over parking lots to recharge electric vehicles

• plug in Hymotion electric vehicles coming soon

• plug in ports on parking lots, parking meters

• Mandatory rideshare program for schools (plus encourage walking/biking to school)
• Promote the benefits of car sharing. Not one particular company, but the concept
• casual carpool like in SF, especially for people going up/down hill, “legalized hitchhiking program” like in Marin “Let’s go Geranamo”
• Exclusive parking for low emissions vehicles
• Reduce street capacity/parking (or make parking spaces smaller) to force change
• “Feebate” to support high MPG vehicles
• auto insurance based on per mile driven
• Small, efficient cars are unsafe next to Hummers, Escalades, etc. Is there any way to create routes where small cars are prioritized?

• Set minimum for hybrid fuel efficiency. (SUV hybrid at 22mpg is far less efficient than standard Honda Civic (29 or so). NS Honda Civic Hybrid (40 or so mpg)
• Gradated residential parking permits according to fuel efficiency (mpg) (eg. $100 permit < 20 mpg, $50 permit 20-30 mpg, $20 permit >30mpg)

• Target car dealerships to attract fuel efficient/alternative fuel/alternative mode vehicles
• educate people how to drive more efficiently
• enforce the speed limit

• Berkeley car registration tax ($100/car?)
• tax on gasoline

• Give up your car challenge! In the Netherlands there is a TV show where individuals have their car taken away or crushed on TV and in exchange are given a bike with all of the amenities. Super Fun!
• quality of life without a car should be better than with a car
• cut lanes on congested roads; attitude shift to make cyclists, pedestrians, etc. a priority
• tie emissions reduction efforts to health issues, like carcinogens from smog, etc.
• organize around taking a neighbor to grocery store/walk a neighbor’s kid to school to make life w/out a car easier
• As the mayor pursues car dealerships and GHG emission reductions can the strategies be integrated?
• fees on vehicles (per vehicle, or per mile)
• parking standards for new buildings should not require so many parking spaces
• encourage people to shop locally
• put signs on the highway about GHGs, etc. creative messages
• develop commercial stores, or small shops in the hills
• spend money on better public transit not more parking (ie Vista Mitigation money, $3mil?)
• make it “cool” to ride bikes and take bus, like car companies market coolness of driving
• ‘transportation services fee,’ fee for transportation costs associated with new developments, collected by local government
• Transportation Demand Management City-University study of priorities should be implemented

• commercial vehicles that use diesel fuel participate in a buying pool for biodiesel
• new diesel cars are very efficient, especially biodiesel

Bicycles:

Promoting Cycling:

• look at Amsterdam’s bike system as a model
• Fund a bicycle-pedestrian engineering position in Public Works Transportation to speed up implementation of bicycle projects
• Mount a free/cheap bicycle program for low-income children and adults (community bike recycling/donations to provide cheaper bikes for those in need, youth etc.)

• Promotional event that gives away and installs bike baskets at Farmers’ Markets-this was done in Davis, CA
• For Bike Education-A bike Ed. Fair at Civic Center Park-info on safety, locating bikes, etc.

• Roads/paths dedicated to bikes (Class One Bike lanes?)
• Redefine the current bike boulevards to be more bicyclist/ pedestrian/runner friendly (resident autos, emergency vehicles, and delivery trucks excepted.) Make them more like wider versions of the Ohlone Trail and less like a city street. Imagine Central Park in New York when they close off the streets to autos, but instead of going round in a circle, it would create an alternative transportation network throughout Berkeley.

• Safe Routes to School (TALC)
• Reduce impedence on bike boulevards by replacing stop signs along the routes with traffic calming and barriers
• Educate motorists and cyclists about how to travel together on the roads
• Safer bike lanes (not alongside traffic and parked cars) like at Ohlone Greenway (Marin-El Cerrito)

• More card bike lockers

• Surveillance cameras at transit stations

• Place pedestrian and biker controlled traffic signals at intersections with heavy car traffic on one of the streets
• Capital improvements to assist bike (and ped) crossing of San Pablo Ave-signals on Blvd?
• Refer victims of bike theft to A) police lots for free/subsidized bike (if exists) B) youth bike repair programs C) swap meets D) used bike-in printed flyer give to victim.

• Better police enforcement of stolen bikes and cops should care about stolen bikes; make bikers aware that if they know their bike’s serial number there’s a better chance they’ll get their bike back if it’s stolen
• Better police enforcement of traffic rules, more cops on bikes instead of police cars

• Berkeley Library has bike racks that are very convenient and lock both wheels and frames all at once without a chain. There should be racks like this elsewhere.

• Every BART station should have bike station open longer hours—open overnight (with showers)
• Better bike paths with curbs; routes very visible with colored concrete and/or different textured road
• More secure bike parking all over town, and post instructions for safely locking up bike, other educational strategies to prevent bike theft (leave brochures near commonly used bike racks and bike shops, program at Farmers’ Market and other events to target cyclists: set up table/clinic about safely locking up bikes)
• stickers “make sure you lock your wheels, between fork, etc.”
• Safer bike operation/training for UC students

• Pilot Food Delivery with Pedal Express at Farmers’ Market
• Provide a fleet of public bikes to borrow for around town use
• Increase funding for bicycle facilities in Berkeley
• Fund a bike purchasing scholarship program for low income families-to use for taking students to school
• Bike-rental program, like car-share, either a monthly rate or one-time rental fee. Should include rentals of trailer, etc for bikes. At the bike station we have a trailer with a top that can be closed and locked
• Free compressed air for bike tires
• Need to make bicycle parking and security easier than automobile parking and security in order to attract converts
• The City gave away auto anti-theft devices to high-risk reliable owners. Do something similar for foiling bike theft.
• Improve bike and pedestrian Access to Ashby BART, especially West and South sides of station
• Reduce stop signs on bicycle blvds. Merge signs at traffic circles, more traffic dividers
• Use TransLink (when implemented) for lockers at BART and Amtrak station
• Create bicycle only streets or semi-closed streets (every third or fourth street should maybe) signed “Residents only” Doesn’t need enforcement, honor system okay for cars. These then become safer bike streets
• Accelerate Bike Plan implementation
• Training bicyclists at events
• Bike stations at all BART stations. Overnight parking for commuters
• Electric scooters
• Bike education at Berkeley High
• City repaving plan doesn’t take bike use into account: on road pavement projects, require that 20% projects is spent on walking and bicycling improvements on that road
• Ride bike to an event, get in free
• Require bike improvements for new development
• two bikes/person (one for home to transit one for transit to work)
• bike parking device so that abandoned bikes at racks taken to a place where people can come pick them up
• Cycles of Change at 10 EB public schools, teach kids how to ride bikes in urban area, how to bike-BART, get to ‘cool’ places, mechanics (elementary, middle and high school)à make sure this reaches Berkeley High School
• bike path plans should take into consideration which streets are bumpy/smooth, etc.
• Stop sign removal on bike boulevards, replace w/traffic circles—reduce auto stop and go and increase cycling by decreasing nuisance stops and bad rep of cyclists who don’t stop at crosswalk
• create a ‘Berkeley Center for Transportation Choices,’ one-stop educational shop: bike station model for shoppers and visitors, info on transit alternatives
• Peddler’s Express Company and other owners of bikes with trailers that can transport furniture, etc.—>make these part of tool library to allow people to carry cargo on bike
• Cargo Bicycle Fair: (renting them out) can call Melanie for local connections

• Engage early
• Comprehensive planning and approach
• Leadership driven
• Stream lining processes
• Incentives for reparable goods
• Use this process to build bridges: Integrated Plan-waste tied to transportation, land use, etc.
• Advertise businesses that provide GREEN customer service and have better Signage about Green Business Certification

• Outreach to employees
• Life cycle approach

• Local production
• Contract groups that do repair in schools, government, and other buildings
• Encourage new home based businesses to do repairs
• Ink business example?
• Small business pledges-new lights for encouragement
• Make green chemicals and use of gray water mandatory

• Issues:

1. Expense
2. Energy intensive
3. Needs land/land use
4. Which organics/Conflicts

• 2700 tons a day spree needed for Alameda County
• EBMUD/EBRPD Land
• Questions:

1. Which organics?
2. Which technologies?
3. How do we go down both paths of “goods”
4. Compostables vs. energy
5. How to do locally?

• Subsidies and/or loans for homeowners (especially low-income people) who insulate and weather proof their homes, install solar energy systems, etc.

• Encourage citizens to adjust HW heaters on daily basis
• Use the home inspection community to help with that 26% on residential usage
• Support better building energy feedback systems
• Support changes in net metering and master metering
• Daylight in the office, home, at meetings, etc.
• get an economist to create a carbon tax (that accounts for imported goods)
• Community Energy Services’ Smart Lights Program, working with businesses (retrofitting facilities’ lighting)
• Structure Engineers to help people retrofit their homes for insulations, etc. so that installing solar panels becomes more of a realistic possibility

• Lowered taxes for ‘green’ and energy star products
• “feebate” system for individuals based on CO2 per capita; use Boulder, Colorado carbon tax as an example (a utility tax that goes towards reducing emissions even more)
• Low carbon diet has good tips like hanging clothes to dry, using a tire pressure gage, etc..
• Carbon market for households: PG&E could calculate per capita energy use and people who come in above average have to pay extra and those who use less get reimbursed so that those who don't conserve encourage people who do (see 3pg proposal by Margrit Roos-Collins)
• All homes should be audited for energy efficiency and green appliances, not just houses that are being sold currently
• Ban incandescent and T12 bulbs
• Eliminate all power mowers, use push mowers where appropriate
• Enforce ban on leaf blowers
• Solar panels on as many houses as possible
• Telephone and internet help save car trips so instead of taxing all kinds of utility usage at 7.5%, why not tax PG&E usage at a higher rate, but lower (or eliminate) the tax on telecommunication services
• Distribute/hand out meters that go next heavily used appliances (stove, lights, AC/heater, etc.) that shows people how much energy they are using by the minute, and ideally how much they are paying (or mail every Berkeley resident a pack of stickers for their appliances, car, etc. which display the number of pounds of carbon per use or per hour that it will emit or cause to be emitted)

• Getting the investment of landlords to help which many renters need in order to be more eco-friendly; incentives for landlords to make their units more efficient
• Focus on landlords…help make loans available to those who want to switch
• Recognition for green landlords to encourage them to install energy efficient appliances, etc.. There could be a window plaque that says the landlord is certified green

• Ask grocers to label all food (can start with produce) as to whether it’s organic or not and whether it came from within 100, 500, the US, N. America, etc./country of origin
• No disposable plastic bags and take out containers
• Berkeley farmer’s markets are more expensive than they need to be—local and pesticide-free produce at Farmers’ Markets elsewhere is usually more affordable
• Urban farming/growing your own food

• more free, exclusive parking for electric vehicles such as plug in Hymotion EVs (like the two spots near city hall)
• small ‘buggie’ slow-moving cars for around town driving (like at gemcar.com)—very energy efficient, electric bill goes up a few dollars a month, have seat belts and can carry groceries
• solar panels over parking lots to recharge electric vehicles
• fees on vehicles (per vehicle, or per mile)
• Community Choice Agregation (like in SF)
• plug in ports on parking lots, parking meters
• new diesel cars are very efficient, especially biodiesel
• educate people how to driver more efficiently
• parking standards for new buildings should not require so many parking spaces
• encourage people to shop locally
• put signs on the highway about GHGs, etc. creative messages
• commercial vehicles that use diesel fuel participate in a buying pool for biodiesel
• develop commercial stores, or small shops in the hills
• city could have a fair to inform people about these bike resources, fuel efficient cars, etc.
• make it “cool” to ride bikes and take bus, like car companies market coolness of driving
• better family planning
• people need to be less self-centered about buses going through their neighborhoods
• quiet buses that go through residential neighborhoods
• Transportation Demand Management City-University study of priorities should be implemented
• enforce the speed limit
• ‘transportation services fee,’ fee for transportation costs associated with new developments, collected by local government

• High density housing
• Encourage small businesses, especially late-night ones to make Berkeley a safer place to be at night without a car
• More crosswalks, stop signs, traffic lights, etc. to make Berkeley more pedestrian-friendly
• Urban Farming
• More environmentally friendly landscaping around schools, median strips etc

• Develop with city planning, pedestrian malls in areas like Telegraph (similar to what exists in Santa Monica)
• Land use shift from auto dependence to pedestrian and bike friendly structure; "Eco City Mapping" to reinforce density or "divinisity" (diversity and density), walk-able city centers, developers get bonuses for building/selling in certain parts of town
• Multi-Use buildings and more variety of shops, stores, work places, art centers, etc. downtown
• Make the downtown area safer to encourage more development there
• Reinforce density at key places in city, reduce in others
• Concentrate city to a downtown district that uses solar energy and is pedestrian and biker friendly (Richard Register included a 2 pg proposal/description, see hardcopies of pledges, comment sheets, etc.)
• Balance jobs and housing in our city by providing workforce housing for an additional 20,000 people so workers don’t need to commute from afar
• Change the zoning code to allow tiny houses on tiny lots
• Create green roofs on top of buildings where feasible to capture more CO2

• Utilize the neighborhood associations
• Project Porchlight
• Put Climate pledge and testimonials on-line
• Contests (ie. Citizens lower consumption)

• Tell the story of successes
• TV/radio: KQED, student stations

• “Green Carts” for homeless?
• stress urgency action to address the global warming issue but with a positive ‘we-can-do-it’ attitude

• Youth commission-engage youth!
• Myspace/web
• School credit
• Outreach activities
• UCB Frats and Sororities
• Parent Orgs and outreach
• Neighborhood Orgs
• Roadshow
• Earthquake Groups
• Others
• Local Arts
• Rap
• Music
• Celebs

• Educating and advertising the connection between reducing GHG and improving the health of our community; asthma etc
• Put an emissions reduction meter for the City of Berkeley online so people can see what level of progress we are making (and have meters next to it that compare our goals and progress to state goals)
• Massive public awareness campaign with support from businesses (“10 things individuals can do”); Give people specific steps and percentages of reduction and statistics of personal and environmental savings if behavior changes are made
• Reach out to under-privileged/low income/non-English speaking people and better communicate how to be more efficient with energy use
• Give materials (like books, pamphlets, etc.) to a broader demographic of people
• Group meetings to discuss specific actions people can do (ex: the Low Carbon Diet)
• Climate Change Awareness training for city employees, especially managers, so that everyone who works for the city understands issues and looks for ways to reduce emissions by city buildings, agencies. Management should be directed to prioritize existing programs and activities that address global warming
• Create a relatively small, mobile/movable kiosk that displays energy efficient lighting, list prices of sustainable living practices, display rebates/subsidies that the city/state government offers, benefits of using public transit/biking/walking, etc.. We can bring the kiosk to community/city events, fairs, farmers’ market, schools (with presentations)
• Don’t rely on most Berkeley residents to come to workshops, etc. but go to other community meetings, events, etc. and tell people there how they can reduce their emissions

• School science classes can emphasize environmental education, which gets parents interested through what their children tell them
• Work with schools to create or enhance environmental education programs (maybe pass a resolution in Board of Education to support climate change education in schools)
• Work with schools to implement energy efficiency and alternative energy
• Form green groups at every school; work with PTSAs, students, families, BUSD administration

• Safe Routes to School in Alameda County (TALC), Oct 3, International Walk to School Day
• Better signage and maintenance of walking paths and stairways in the Berkeley Hills Place pedestrian and biker controlled traffic signals at intersections with heavy car traffic on one of the streets
• Capital improvements to assist bike (and ped) crossing of San Pablo Ave-signals on Blvd?
• ‘Pedestrian Plan’: requirement that pedestrian improvement infrastructure be part of new developments

• BRT, get people out of cars, onto busses

• Free shuttles on congested or most-used roads
• Berkeley could work with AC Transit to increase ridership in Berkeley, in return, Berkeley should get a royalty on any increased revenue to AC Transit.

• Have bus timetables more readily available and more accurate; GPS tracking to know when AC Transit buses come
• Don’t charge for transfers and make bus as cheap as possible (ideally free all the time, but can start by reducing them for students, low income families, the elderly and the disabled with an Eco Pass)
• All student ID’s could double as transit passes- a few years ago all Oakland students had school ID’s that were also free, year-long bus passes. We could have all elementary, middle, high, and university students receive free or very low cost eco-passes.
• Expand eco-pass to BART
• Buses should run more often (maybe use smaller buses for less-used routes)
• Seats should be more comfortable
• More late-night lines for people who work late and/or want to enjoy nightlife

• License independent jitney operators that will fill gaps on routes with excess Transit demand
• Berkeley local casual carpool (like “Go Geronimo” in Marin)
• Travel connection of rideshare especially for Senior Citizens to get to stores, etc.
• Make transit attractive again- sexy, charming, use trollys instead of shuttle busses

• Need “townhouse’ density to support transit
• Consciousness raisings signs along I80
• Buying pool for commercial bio diesel purchase
• Portable convenience store for Berkeley Hills and more buses (or smaller shuttles) that go up there
• More info on Berkeley Hills paths/stairways
• Pedal Express/bike cargo info; Tool lending library
• Make bike riding and bus-riding cool-better marketing
• People need to accept bus traffic on car streets
• People need to be less self-centered about buses going through their neighborhoods (to compromise, quiet buses that go through residential neighborhoods)
• Implement city/AC joint TDM plan
• Berkeley specific car tax charge for VMT
• Interoperability of transit/ integrate
• Berkeley and Oakland (and maybe other) City Councils should meet to discuss what taxes should be increased to better fund AC Transit get together to push for higher tax for AC transit funding
• Tell Governor Schwarzenegger that we shouldn't cut funding to BART, AC Transit
• commercial district shuttle system, network of small buses that do ten minute loop runs throughout all the commercial districts (College, Telegraph, Shattuck, 4th street)
• Pay for these projects with parking meter revenue and vista college money
• Deploy Translink/ Make TransLink work right. Already different protocols on AC Transit and Golden Gate Transit
• Support dedicated lanes/signals

• stores should deliver groceries and other purchases so people will walk/bike to store
• scare people about crazy driver on road—safer in bus (this could discourage biking)
• take parking meter revenue to fund above shuttles
• improve bus stops, benches
• BART about to install bike locker at Ashby and North Berkeley (by hour, first few hours free, then pennies per hour)
• smart car on BART?
• BART should allow bikes in trains, even during commute hours (maybe have a certain car designated the bike car)
• transit agencies should be present at public city meetings like the Transportation Commission Workshop
• government employees should not be the only ones to get Eco Pass
• Dedicated lanes with timed signals like in New Zealand
• easier to get to bus stations?
• commuter check programs should be encouraged (esp in UC) and change Federal tax law to increase level of commuter check eligibility for self-employed. Currently only about twenty dollars a month versus 120 dollars a month
• Encourage a shop local campaign

• Encourage employers to provide incentives for bike/walk/carpool/transit commuters
• Use paratransit shuttles as off commute hours (especially, evening, weekend, and early am) on-call, reservation shuttles. (existing vehicles and drivers)
• Biodiesel conversion of school buses and AC transit
• Ask BART to run later trains (at least 1 am on weekends, please)
• Extend BUSD >1 mile school bus service to “out of zone” students to reduce car trips
• Let people know they can use luggage racks on AC transit (those who were left behind when could not before maybe be attracted back)
• Promote public transit as a way to multi-task rather than a waste of time (one can be going somewhere while reading, working, knitting, mediating, etc)

• 5 bin system: trash, recycling, composting of course, plus hazardous waste and reuse bins
• Emphasis on ‘pre-cycling’

• Reduce paper agendas handed out at meetings and other paper products
• Clean “big” staff city, collects to EBMUD

• Bring reusable plates, silverware, etc. to gatherings
• Leverage Residential/Business Action

• Make it easy to figure out how and where to properly dispose of hazardous materials

• Resale of used items-infrastructure

• Paper shredders city wide (so that people feel safer recycling confidential documents)
• Pay people to recycle (based on weight maybe)

• Increase recycling rate especially in rental units
• Employ young people to re-sell old items that students throw out when they move out of dorms (use a bug warehouse)à program on campus called Re-USE is doing something very similar already
• Rebuild City Transfer staion to increase customer interface so that long lines of cars with engines running don’t have to wait for a chance to dump loads
• Urban Ore has a plan to redesign 2^nd street so that most of it is not fenced off parking lots (Dan Knapp 914-0074)

• Waive the City portion of the sales tax on bicycles and other green goods
• Energy/carbon tax
• Lower labor tax
• City of Berkeley could partner with other cities to create the market force or economic incentives for auto makers to expand production on alternative energy/ electric vehicles by requiring all city vehicles to utilize clean energy. Expand model to other energy saving products
• Analysis of impact of congestion on the VMT x vehicle efficiency = CO2. Measure pollution from cars, buildings and industry and tax the emissions (car pollution can be measured with remote-sensing devices)

• Plant more trees (may require sacrificing some concrete) to absorb emissions [this was one of the most frequent suggestion made]

• Get the tree services to re-use, not just recycle the cut down trees and brush as lumber, kindling, etc, somewhat like a ‘mill operation’
• ~Make it easy to get city to plant trees at your house
• ~More trees around schools and in parking lots, especially in low income areas (regardless of property owners wishes)

• Include ‘embedded energy’ in our inventory to get credit for buying local and composting, etc.
• Set a bigger target for 2020, the earlier the better, why not aim high?
• I80 congestion, people in Berkeley who drive to SF for work, and not included in the emissions inventory

• better family planning
• Council pass resolution to send recommendation to Governor, state governments, representatives, and lower speed limit to 55 and pass a carbon tax
• Council should pass the Transportation Services Fee for developers to fund Green House Gas emission transportation measures that reduce emissions
• Enact Transportation Services Fee (“Traffic Impact Fee”)

• Close streets downtown and elsewhere, like Solano, daylight weeks so that more people will walk around, more cafes, more music, and entertainment

• "Green Ideas program" to patent eco-friendly ideas and use patent revenue for city of Berkeley to promote more innovation and sustainable initiatives
• United Steel Workers has made climate change their top priority policy-wise. Follow up with them and California Labor Federation, SEIU, CWA, CAN?
• Advocacy- form bill, zero waste
• Service FFC, BFM, and recycling