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  1. Gardens on apartment property

    81 votes
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    2 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Encourage local food  ·  Admin →
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  2. Develop a local food hub and expand the availability of local food at a neighbourhood level

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    12 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Encourage local food  ·  Admin →
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  3. Increase indoor temperature range, to connect people to outside and reduce energy. Sweaters! Shorts!

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    0 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Green existing buildings  ·  Admin →
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  4. Mandatory Lighting Controls for Commercial buildings

    25 votes
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    2 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Green existing buildings  ·  Admin →
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  5. Create more community gardens

    227 votes
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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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  6. Require residential water metering

    196 votes
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    12 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Use less water  ·  Admin →
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  7. Change the Building Code to require rainwater collection & water efficient irrigation systems

    314 votes
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    11 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Use less water  ·  Admin →
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  8. Drinking water fountains + bottled water ban

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    started  ·  26 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Use less water  ·  Admin →
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  9. Provide abundant & secure bicycle parking at transit stations & other key locations.

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    7 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Travel predominately by foot, bike, and transit  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    This is acknowledged as a key strategy to better integrate cycling and transit. In 07/2009 the City committed some funding for secure parking facilities at Broadway-City Hall and Olympic Village Canada Line stations. The City has also conducted a feasibility study for a downtown bike centre.

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  10. Mandatory 25¢ fee for plastic shopping bags

    334 votes
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    28 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce waste  ·  Admin →
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  11. Make Vancouver a Mecca for Green Technologies, Innovation and Jobs

    50 votes
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    4 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Create green jobs  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    A strategy in the Draft Greenest City Action Plan is to give economic development priority to green sectors, and develop a green technology centre and network, along with other specific infrastructure and demonstration projects.

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  12. Create a Green Enterprise Zone

    27 votes
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    10 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Create green jobs  ·  Admin →
    planned  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    This idea will be included in the draft Greenest City Action Plan. A Green Enterprize Zone team is establishing an area and some initial projects including two business incubators, specific infrastructure and demonstration projects.

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  13. Ban garburetors - they waste water and put waste in water

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    5 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Use less water  ·  Admin →
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  14. Separate organic matter out of the waste stream and convert it to biogas

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    8 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce greenhouse gas emissions  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    The City has already started a food scraps collection program for neighbourhoods where yard trimmings are collected. These materials are currently composted. With more organic waste diversion, the City will explore opportunties to implement technolgies that produce biogas like gassifiers and anaerobic digesters.

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  15. Require businesses to be responsible for their own waste

    234 votes
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    11 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce waste  ·  Admin →
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  16. Encourage deconstruction to recover used building materials & reduce construction waste

    202 votes
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    10 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce waste  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    The Draft Greenest City Action Plan includes an action to develop a building deconstruction policy. The City is piloting a building deconstruction project and is exploring options for an incentive program to encourage deconstruction.

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  17. Extend food waste collection program to include apartments and condos

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    25 comments  ·  GC 2020 » Reduce waste  ·  Admin →
    under review  ·  AdminGreenest City Planning Team (Admin, CG2020) responded

    The City supports Metro Vancouver’s plans to ban food scraps from the incinerator and landfills by 2015. The City will collaborate with Metro Vancouver to develop and implement a plan to ensure apartments, condos, businesses and institutions have access to food scraps collection programs before the ban comes into effect.

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