A list of 225 ideas contributed by London community members at the Community Energy Planning workshops in Fall 2007…

• Delivery energy reduction program in the schools
• Continue to promote energy reduction to the public
• Build 'green' infrastructure

And 222 more...

• Delivery energy reduction program in the schools
• Continue to promote energy reduction to the public
• Build 'green' infrastructure
• Promote legacy of a better planet
• We all have a voice
• What will London look like 20-30 years from now? Status quo.
• We know the problems, focus on solutions
• Technology will not save us
• Act locally, globally
• Look at gas prices changing, cut down
• Introduce Woodstock's program to London
• Use dishwasher later in the evening
• Develop weatherstripping projects in housing
• Create practical bus routes in neighbourhoods
• Offer free transit
• Start the 100 mile diet
• Install heat pumps, solar, cogeneration
• Alternative energy systems, alternative money systems
• Develop a tour of sites
• Look at energy reduction as a return on investment
• Take steps so people will confirm, resources will be used as long as they are affordable
• Identify a motivational force
• Carpool, have parking lots in the city for carpoolers
• Leave the Earth in better condition than you found it
• Do more than your part
• Support needed in making change
• Compost - one house on the block can take compost for apartments
• There is too much infrastructure - deal with eliminating waste
• Put a LTC ticket in your wallet and use it
• Put timetables at transit stops
• Less packaging
• Provide for strollers, bike racks on buses
• Put 'green' ads on buses
• More buses
• More walking routes
• Have less parking at schools
• Buses through subdivisions vs main corridors
• Support neighbourhood energy reduction
• Engage youth to help air seal housing
• Blue boxes in offices - challenge zero waste
• HHW - collect in neighbourhoods
• Go back to spring and fall cleanups, stuff disappears
• Have deposit for cans and cardboard like Halifax
• Use own containers instead of plastic bags
• Ensure recycling is not contaminated
• Better apartment recycling
• Reduce water bottle use, use biodegradables
• Look at what we are eating - poisons in our food
• Eat organic
• Tour of innovations
• Sisters of St. Joseph - green parking lot, tours, LEED certified
• Prevent waste, repair items
• Students should be educated to stop putting furnishings at curb
• Recycling art show
• Bartering program
• Storage in apartments to have area for handy repairs area
• Have more accessible recycling opportunities
• Write to the media about your concerns
• Create a picture of your footprint
• Buy Nothing Day - give something up
• Don't use your car, Car Free Day every day
• Eat less meat
• Turn your TV off
• Watch A. Gore's film
• Plant trees to offset your travel footprint
• More local farmers markets
• Promote local purchases
• Develop an energy strategy
• Real Estate guide to show quality of housing
• Grow food in neighbourhood lots, need water supply
• Solar, geothermal
• Biodiesel
• Roof top gardens
• Wind turbines bylaw so community and residential can install easily
• Selling back to the grid
• Bullfrog
• More renewables without having to ask
• Higher building standards
• Victoria Hospital incinerator now has cogeneration
• Refuse packaging
• MPACT revision
• Move from larger homes to smaller homes
• Property tax should address energy waste
• Stop more nuclear plants
• Reduce tree cutting and marsh draining at farms
• Protect agriculture
• London was sustainable years ago
• HOV lanes
• Controlled urban growth
• Energy efficient housing
• Increases neighbourhood densities
• More use of downtown
• Downtown should be more viable meeting needs of neighbourhoods
• City reactive - has no benchmarks
• Official Plan more than a guideline
• Neighbourhood impacts as children grow up and leave home
• Make condos more efficient
• Housing - parents still living in house after splitting up - efficiency
• Better design of neighbourhoods
• As community changes, footprint changes
• No more drive throughs
• Too many trees being cut won
• Every tree cut, plant 2 new ones
• Woodlot preservation
• Tree Canada grants
• Help out ReForest London
• St Clair herbicide program
• Neighbourhoods need biking/walking routes, buses, libraries, groceries, hardwares
• Voice of the consumer - reach them with incentives, look at learning models
• Educate the public on post carbon, what are we facing?
• Model home for retrofits
• Federal - net zero model homes throughout Canada
• Address public apathy
• Transition towns - Rob Hopkins
• Look at other communities - inclusiveness - Peterboro
• Decentralize government decision making
• Municipalities should act as leaders
• No pesticides
• Relocalization
• Ask people their ideas to motivate change
• Continue small group sessions - one-on-one, more personal levels
• Waterloo N Hydro is paying for geothermal, heat pump installations
• Ask London Hydro to do the same
• Light rail
• Film ' The Corporation'
• Need provincial and federal support
• Create list of reliable contracts
• Ask building inspectors for referrals - home retrofits
• Need better transportation options to get to work
• Smaller communities outside London have very limited transportation choices
• Planning - need concentrated areas to increase transit use
• Carsharing
• City needs to set higher standards regarding population concentrations
• Zenn electric cars - approved by Transport Canada - more distances needed
• Build grocery stores in neighbourhoods so people can walk to them
• Energy costs impact use, response when it becomes unaffordable
• Water quality important
• Real price of food
• Real price of transportation
• People's daily busyness, time constraints - need to change the pace
• Movie - 'The 11th hour'
• Raw sewage being dumped into the Great Lakes
• Speaking up to changes in the workplace
• 4 day work weeks
• Going, going green - Fine Living channel
• How to use excess solar panel energy
• Your Money or Your Life - work ethic
• More accessible buses, shuttles if smaller routes
• More paratransit for seniors, our aging population
• Free transit is provided in Europe to folks over 65
• Simpler transit routes
• Carshare HOV lanes
• Free bus service after normal working hours
• Petitions for needed programs
• Allow residents to sell produce from home
• Community artering system
• Transport to markets ie Trails End, Western Fair market, Arva mill
• More neighbourhood markets
• Use grocery store/mall parking lots for more activities
• Solar cookers
• Greenhouses
• Canning of fruits and vegetables course
• Seedy Saturdays
• Energy audits - block by block
• Grey water to water boulevards
• Sinks/tubs - reuse water
• Rent a kitchen to gather people to cook meals
• Allow bylaw to have chickens, rabbits on site
• Myfootprint.com
• Expand City wind power bylaw
• Use alternative energy for essential services
• Strategy for road repair, no new roads
• Map of local farms
• Conserve, conserve
• Solar dehydration for fruit
• Walk to anywhere within 15 minutes
• Grow plants on lawns
• Use vacant lots for food growing
• Increase rail
• Energy patriots?
• Support City Farm Project relocation
• Gardens at fire hall sites
• Develop more sites like Jeremiah's Field
• Support Quarter Masters and Lindy's - local food
• Canadians spend 8% on food - too many subsidies
• Omnivore dilemma
• Government regulations - more effective, low flow toilets
• More downtown markets
• Don't shop at stores carrying out of town produce out of season
• Support housing projects to reduce energy use
• Don't wear clothing from other countries, support Canadian
• Look at what your clothing is made of - oil based products?
• Ban plastic bags locally
• Eliminate bottled water coming to London from other municipal
• water systems such as Guelph, Peel, Mississauga
• Investigate the need to carry water all the time
• Install water fountains to reduce waste
• Add more shops, pubs in neighbourhoods with no parking concerns
• Put more money into neighbourhoods, Councils to make decisions
• Emphasize energy reduction in Official Plan
• Reuse greywater more efficiently
• Doors Open in Toronto had 'green' theme - do same here
• Toronto Lawrence Market had a fun scavenger hunt using 'green' pictures
• Visit and celebrate local farms
• List successes with businesses, community
• Dec 8 - International Climate Change Action Day
• Oakridge Association, Ward 8 - Monica, interested to do more
• Woodfield Association - interested in energy reduction
• Energy audits should be mandatory for businesses
• Develop mechanism for city to support energy reduction financially
• Drakes Landing
• Create fish ponds, use rainbarrels
• Use cisterns for rainwater
• Snow cover over pool collects and filters water
• More information courses - PUC, schools
• Access school cafeterias for events
• Encourage more community use of schools - senior programs
• Gardens, zero waste at schools
• Close curtains during the day to warm or heat rooms
• Liver closer to work
• Stop building new roads in London
• Create more bike safety routes
• Travel year round with cycling above ground
• HOV lanes for more efficient vehicles
• Density of housing in London is too low
• Look to energy reduction ideas from England