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  1. Green Events Guide for all city and community events

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Lighter Footprint  ·  Admin →
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  2. Provide home owners with a tax rebate for installing compostable toilets.

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Use less water  ·  Admin →
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    Spring Gillard commented  · 

    And put them in all city parks. they have portable ones now too that could be used at the city's "green events".

  3. Zero waste

    64 votes
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    12 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce waste  ·  Admin →
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    Spring Gillard commented  · 

    Create a zero waste ethic. That is set the highest example of waste diversion on all civic property and in buildings. Have recycling bins everywhere, more than garbage cans. At the pool where I swim, they actually removed the recycling bins from the washrooms because people were throwing garbage into them. Put them back, even if the staff have to sort a little. Oh and make sure all city events are green. Oakland, California, Des Moines, Iowa, and our province of Nova Scotia have green event guides for all events that take place in their cities, including their own. In a nearby municipality, North Shore Recycling lends out zero waste stations for community groups.

  4. Require all fast food take-out containers to be reusable, compostable, or recyclable

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  5. Ensure all malls and public fascilities have recycling systems in place

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  6. Permeable pavements

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    0 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Improve access to nature  ·  Admin →
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  7. Conserve our Urban Biodiversity: Save Vancouver’s Last Wild Salmon Stream

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  8. Grow local supply chains

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    7 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Create green jobs  ·  Admin →
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  9. Create green collar jobs for local residents, especially low threshold opportunities

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  10. Allow greenouse enclosures around courtyards/patios (ie. do not count these in floor space ratio)

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Encourage local food  ·  Admin →
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  11. Create more community gardens

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    8 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Encourage local food  ·  Admin →
    started  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    City has already moved beyond the 2,010 (garden plots) by 2010 challenge. Three new gardens were created in the summer of 2010 and others are currently in the planning stage. This is an idea included in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan.

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    Spring Gillard commented  · 

    Especially in food deserts like the South Granville St. neighbourhood.

  12. Develop a local food hub and expand the availability of local food at a neighbourhood level

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  13. Incubator kitchens

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  14. Protect Urban Farming by changing the laws that get used to shut it down

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  15. Make composting, proper recycling and waste disposal procedures in restaurants/hotels mandatory.

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    2 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce waste  ·  Admin →
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  16. granville island foot bridge

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    0 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
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  17. Re-industrialize Vancouver

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    1 comment  ·  GC 2020 » Create green jobs  ·  Admin →
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  18. mobile community gardens in empty lots

    32 votes
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  19. Car Free Sundays

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  20. Redevelop existing brownfields, greyfields, parking lots into livable space

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    0 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Green existing buildings  ·  Admin →
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