Office of Sustainable Development ("Green Dream Machine")

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Idea Overview

Create an agency with a mission to implement and encourage environmentally friendly community projects and lifestyles in individual households

Idea Round Up Concept Sheet

Who worked on idea?

Anne, Hilary, Marc, Celeste

What is the idea?

Office of Sustainable Development - to create an agency with a mission to implement and encourage environmentally friendly community projects and lifestyles in individual households

How would idea work?

• Pull together existing and ongoing community projects (i.e. Nine Mile Run Rain Barrel Project) as well as facilitate new initiatives
• Examples:
• Community-wide: Bike lanes, citywide clean up days, facilitate corporate recycling
• Individual: education and awareness about energy star appliances, solar energy, green roofs

Pluses:

• Public health benefits (nutrition, pollution abatement, urban recreation)
• Connecting agency - brings people and resources together
• Public awareness/education

Concerns:

• Lack of interest
• Power players with conflicting agendas

Community opportunities:

• In general bring together many disjointed projects and interests
• People with kids and pets
• Outdoor appreciators
• People with health problems like asthma
• Energy and money saving conscious
• Farmers market alliance
• People interested in green building
• Interest in city's appearance