HomeMy WebLinkAboutWorkingGroup_NewMeasureIdeas_9-20-07CCWG – New Measure Ideas 1
9/20/07
CITY OF CHULA VISTA
Climate Change Working Group
NEW MEASURE IDEAS
Meeting #1
We need to calculate the payback period for the cost of implementation vs. the cost of
not doing something
We should have a half-day session to start our discussions
Install motion sensors for instant water heater systems
Provide energy awareness training for hourly retail workers (teenagers)
Concert at Coors Amphitheater to fundraise and as a educational forum
All new energy load met with clean renewable energy and distributed generation
New construction & development standards to improve energy efficiency
All projects should detail environmental impacts including CO2 emission levels
Educating residents and businesses through personal household energy calculators
Meeting #2
Encourage Wind Chimneys (info form Pratt and Law architects)
Match Building Codes to green building opportunities
Innovative ways to finance solar power
Build more trust with Solar Contractors
Develop guidebooks and tools on how to environmentally retrofit your home when
remodeling
o Develop a “green team” to provide technical assistance (retrofit vs. new
construction)
Ideas and guidelines to implement Green ideas in a rental unit
o Provide benefits to landlords and tenants
Marketing opportunity
o Put together a time capsule with all the current a past environmentally
negative resources
Vampire load
Plug load
o Understanding what appliances create larger loads
o Home Energy monitors
Education and Marketing to let people know more about options
o Target key stakeholders
o Apartment owners
o Get influential leaders to share what they are doing
o Get involvement of Interfaith Power and Light
Meeting #3
Use of co-housing
Policies to stratify housing stock
CCWG – New Measure Ideas 2
9/20/07
Keep in mind long-term goals
Revamp the zoning code
Parking issues
o Shared costs by businesses
Promote incentive for fuel stations further from highway
Get voucher for discounts for other energy efficient products
Focus on large consumer vehicles
o Busses, Refuse trucks
Incentives for off-road equipment
o Tractors to use bio-diesel
Meeting #4
Rain water harvesting
Connect Home Owners Associations (HOA’s) to Water districts
o Communicate new legislation about waterwise landscaping
Use incentives
o Cash for grass
o For developers (more units for more conservation?)
Work with HOA’s
o Rules that don’t restrict people from saving water
Trash
o Charge by the weight
o “Pay as you throw”
o Smaller cost for smaller container
o Tipping fee too low to encourage composting programs
o Work with Economic Development to bring recycling type businesses to
Chula Vista – “Styro-Crete”
Used grey-water reclamation
Whole home and business carbon footprint
o Include all recycling and environmental measures
Lawnmower buy back
o Give push mower (Many very small lawn areas)
Use wind power (or other renewable energy) for pumping water