Municipal action
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What Municipalities Can do for a Livable Planet
Local units of government possess the legal authority to take bold action for the community’s common good. They have a duty to use their legal authority to protect the environment for the benefit of residents. Many municipalities around the country are using this authority to fulfill their duty.
MUNICIPALITY ACTIONS
- Pass an environmental crisis resolution
- Create a Livable Planet Commission for the city or county or township
- Install solar panels on all public buildings
- Contact Minnesota Interfaith Power & Light (MNIPL) for assistance with building community solar arrays
- Use their legal authority to prohibit destroying trees, unless three mature trees are planted
- Prohibit new impervious surfaces
- Add more green spaces
- Public transit increase
- Zoning laws to prevent more sprawl
- Initiate and support local renewable energy development
- Create jobs through renewable energy projects
- Upgrade public buildings with better insulation
- Pass strict building energy efficiency codes
- Ban fracking
- Set policy without having to build more roads
- Require new construction to install solar panels & geothermal systems
- Initiate water conservation project
- Community gardens on public land
- Education on sustainable farming
- Victory gardens program
- Create more convenient public composting
- Expand and support local food production
- Become a Green Step City
- Work with CERT, https://cleanenergyresourceteams.org for hands-on assistance for cities, counties, utilities, farmers and business to transition to clean energy
- Hold public forums on what we can do locally for the environmental catastrophe we are in