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1. Mandate City, County, and State buildings and facilities to
immediately begin design and implementation of solar roofing and
solar water-heaters, and other green building practices for new
and retrofit.

2. Mandate and give incentives and rebates for business-owners to
do the same.

4. ...Likewise for property-owners, and tenants. (Japan has a
solar water-heater program that we could implement here).

5. Energy companies should pay for the energy people put back into
the grid generated from solar-roofs.

6. Policy should require developers (including governmental
entities) to mitigate for heat and run-off producing pavement and
buildings by providing equivalent green space, trees, gardens,
etc. 

7. Government policy should encourage and facilitate community
gardens where local people can grow fruits and vegetables, cutting
down on need for long distance transport of produce.

8. Mandate clean diesel, bio-diesel, or alternatives for ships and
trucks. 

9. Institute a reduction in ship speeds along the coast, to 10
knots, through Santa Barbara Channel to the ports of Los Angeles,
and in the northern CA shipping lanes and approaches to San
Francisco and Oakland. (fuel-efficient, less-polluting).

10. Unchannelize creeks and rivers, so that they can perform their
natural functions, with more cooling and vegetation as a result.

11. Plant more native plants and trees, better suited to the
environment, requiring less water and chemicals.

12. Encourage bio-diversity.

13. Cable cars, light rail, alternative sources of transport.

14. More electric and alternative vehicles in government fleets
and rebates for consumers to buy them.  Tax credits for innovation
in design, research into alternative fuel sources and vehicles.

15. Local community cooperatives for buying clean power.

16. Wind-power: incentives for different levels of projects, from
individual to larger corporate, government, or public projects. 

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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted: 2008-08-01 13:27:30