HPKCC - Sustainable Environment Task Force

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Hyde Park Kenwood Community Conference
Sustainable Environment Task Force

• This is our wiki work area.
• The official site for the task force is here.

Contents 1 Meeting Minutes 2 Mission Statement and Goals 2.1 Mission Statement 2.2 Goals 2.3 Action Items

Meeting Minutes

• HPKCC-SETF - Meeting Minutes

Mission Statement and Goals

Last Updated: 7/2/2008

Mission Statement

To promote an environmentally sustainable economy and lifestyles in the Hyde Park and Kenwood community area.

Goals

1. Partner with local government, schools, businesses, community organizations, and residents.

2. Help solve the problems of global warming and climate change by promoting carbon footprint reduction. This applies to individuals, businesses and organizations.

3. Promote recycling.

4. Promote the use of public and alternative modes of transportation.

5. Promote energy efficiency and clean energy sources in residential and commercial buildings.

6. Promote the availability of food grown in the community and the midwest region.

Future Considerations

The following are candidate additions to the goals list:

1. Promote and support implementation of the Chicago Climate Action Plan. This plan is due to be released in the near future. See Chicago Climate Strategy 2007 (http://chicagoclimatestrategy2007.pbwiki.com/).

2. Promote and support implementation of the CMAP^* GO TO 2040 regional vision. See http://www.goto2040.org/.

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* CMAP - Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning.

Action Items

We are in the process of developing an actions list. Here are a few starter ideas.

Recycling

• Be a good role model for recycling within the HPKCC. Meetings and sponsored events should use "reduce, reuse, and recycle" best practices.
• Blue Carts - promote recruiting of Recycling Block Captains.
• Blue bags - this program will be dropped. When will blue carts be implemented? What is the interim solution?
• Condos and businesses - visit and promote recycling. Evaluate methdos to track level of participation.

May meeting ideas list

• Phase out first generation plastic bags. Reuse the ones we have and use cloth bags.

• Urban gardening: large community garden and private gardens (attention to water conservation)

• Trolley on 53rd street, loop to 55th or 57th street

• Green development, watching current proposed developments and expansion desires of university

• Education, including water conservation

• Litter [littering is a highly visible example of not managing waste and not recycling]

• Collection of hazardous waste materials