[Green] National Geographic: How can city dwellers help with climate change? Buy less stuff.

[roger kalter]

Several actions we can take immediately to reduce city’s carbon emissions:1. Get the city to enforce rules about not blowing cut grass into street. Washed into streams where it decreases oxygen supply. No current penalty unless city makes you pay for them cleaning. Almost never happens. 2. Lobby for legislation prohibiting disposal of yard waste in trash. Advocate for not bagging grass clippings or offer option of compost collection. Athens does. 3. Lobby for much wider use of erosion control at work sites. City is poor role model. Either filter fabrics or filter tubes are readily available. Dominion way ahead of city. 4. Require Rumpke and the city to communicate directly with consumers when they provide contaminated recycling or have trash included in recycling. It is required, but done, in city’s contract. 5. Ask the city to be a role model for recycling. It currently is the opposite. 



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On Wednesday, June 12, 2019, 8:10 PM, Dawn Hewitt via Green <green at fuusm.org> wrote:


How can city dwellers help with climate change? Buy less stuff.
The things we buy, eat, and use have a big impact on the climate—so it’s time to learn to consume a whole lot less.

Read in National Geographic: https://apple.news/AAH0z9HwKQdCjamWp5P2sTg


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