“How would you like to see businesses/organizations model sustainability?”

Responses from the March 9th Town Hall meeting:

“What would you like to see businesses that you patronize do this year to model sustainable practices?”

Install more covered bike racks, designed by bicyclists to accommodate trailers.
Take Hours Exchange Currency.
Hold a contest among other businesses to see who can reduce their energy and resource consumption the most over the course of a year, with monthly public reports to inspire others.  City might provide a tax incentive or award.
Use compostable or reusable containers and recycle more materials, including paper towels.
Produce less waste overall, and compost food waste (restaurants, groceries, and businesses).
I would like restaurants to offer smaller plate options to diners with smaller appetites, which would reduce use of takeout containers.
Put lights on sensors or timers to turn off or dim when store is closed, with motion sensors for security.
Have the Corvallis Environmental Center conduct a resource efficiency review, and then implement the suggestions.
Source things locally and purchase sustainably produced items.
Hire local employees and contractors first.
Install more electric car charging stations.
Use native and edible plants in landscaping.
Use 100% recycled paper in all products unless certain project requires other type.
Set printers to default double-sided printing, only print what you need, and reuse paper.
Compostable-what about reusable? Discount for food with containers you bring in.
Surrendering the car-what sorts of alternative transportation can I use- would like to see some form of Flex Car like WeCar.  Coordination in transportation is off, if you are transferring busses and you are a few minutes late you miss your bus.  The person who is driving is isn’t automated.
Idea- Lowered co-pay at hospital if you show up by bicycle walking-insurance company which foots the bill for co-pay saves because people show up in a healthier way, free rides on the bus
Tell the city if you build three less parking spaces, build three more bicycle spaces
Rooftop gardens
Help People get bicycles more easily, cheaply-essentially reinstate the bike co-op.
Get away from plastics, e.g., Baja Fresh.  Are we able to affect a franchise?
Ask local businesses to use local suppliers.
Use cards to hand out at businesses which state how we want them to change—what their options might be-rthat they can change and save money, increase customer base, use local products etc.
Bellingham has window stickers for sustainability awareness.
Develop a certification process—“Certifiably Sustainable”
Places use compostable containers but they don’t offer containers to put them in for composting
Perhaps a program that would pick up the compostable materials and deliver them to the proper location
Realtors should use electric vehicles for their travels around
More use of the reuse-a-cup
Universal composting symbol – similar to the recycling logo
More energy-efficient lighting in local businesses
Make school gardens more inclusive in the schools program
More real world applications
No more throwaway stuff (Styrofoam)
Do compostable resources actually get composted?
More bicycle-friendly (access and parking)
Reduce electricity for signage
Upgraded lighting and more natural lighting
Communicate what is being done to be sustainable
Ask if someone needs a bag before automatically bagging in grocery stores, etc.
Reduce or eliminate the usage of Styrofoam
Allow people to take home leftovers in their own take-home containers
Increase the frequency of bus stops

• Decrease parking spaces to encourage bike riding
  Utilization of solar panels on roofs of businesses
  Waste . . . waste reduction
  Think find local products and feature them
  Don’t feature the imported good . . . push the local products
  Reduce energy use; reduce light pollution . . . so we can see the stars
  More sustainable refrigerant gases . . . carbon dioxide vs. freon
  Make the connection between environmental issues and social justice issues and economic health
  Push Oregon harvested shrimp!
  Adhere to the Monterrey Bay Aquarium sustainable fish harvest list (i.e. no red listed fish)
  Stores need to educate consumers on the hidden costs of artificially low priced produced
  Environmental regulation needs to incorporate the social and economic impacts on the community.
  Incorporate the human dimension
  Bike friendly!
  Government support of “bike friendliness”
  Incentives for alternative transportation
  Less packaged goods in the store.
  NO STYROFOAM CONTAINERS
  Adopt the Natural Step system conditions
  Do a sustainability assessment such as SCORE
  Are local companies more sustainable than larger chain stores?
  A waste food to pig farmers program to supply waste food to farms; credit to Peter Erskine and Jason Bradford
  Reduce take out containers from restaurants
  Everyone in Corvallis has a belt with plate / spork / bowl / cup and cloth napkin , Corvallis mess kit
  Have good bike racks.
  Robnett’s Hardware needs to improve theirs.
  There are programs through the city so that businesses can install good quality racks at little, or no, expense. Trader Joe’s bike racks are not installed properly and should be fixed.
  The city should have caught this in their initial building inspections. The city could be more diligent about inspecting bike rack installation with new construction.
  Inside bike parking is best.
  Don’t automatically give bags and if a customer doesn’t want a bag, be sure they are not given bags or other extra packaging.
  In general, businesses will reduce packaging.
  If plastic packaging is being used, it should be easy to know if it’s recyclable and if so, how and where to recycle it.
  More education should be available about how to compost and recycle.
  Have signs that let people know the bus schedule for that location. A counter card would be great.
  Stores that offer to recycle extra packaging and paper receipts.
  Let businesses know that you aren’t buying something that is packaged in plastic when no packaging is needed.Eliminate Styrofoam
  Buy local foods and label them so shoppers know which are local
  More support for smaller growers through local networks
  Enclose grocery cold storage space to use less energy
  Encourage appropriate packaging (less plastic)
  HP: use less energy; share what they are doing internally.
  Support local food supplies.
  Compost food waste.
  Practice social justice through the benefits they provide for employees, like insurance. Have conversations about single payer health care.
  Samaritan should increase sustainable practices.
  Would like to see the Local 6 expanded into more local restaurants—maybe especially target places that use beans and wheat which are available more locally, and get them thinking.  Must appear to the potential restaurants that it makes financial sense for the ones who are already doing it — maybe that information from those already doing it can be shared with other potentials to entice them to participate…does it generate more business, not just a good feeling?
  Still seeing too many restaurants that are using polystyrene to-go containers; would like to see the City create an ordinance to disallow these, figures this would have to come from the top-down; look to other communities that are already doing this.
  Corvallis businesses should form a buying club to purchase items they need—referred to “the Sysco Trap” where a business get dropped if they go elsewhere to buy (a food monopoly)—this would prevent that.  This could work for food AND food-related items.  Could ALSO work for Office Supplies.
  Wants to see the Corvallis Sustainability Coalition take a look at NuScale
  Keep things local by having businesses support each other
  Breakfast restaurants that have local meat and local, organic eggs
  Encourage businesses to think about how people get to their store
  Make sure that all of the coffee shops have mugs that you can use instead of disposable mugs (have the reusable mug be the default)
  Encourage businesses to have non-plastic packaging available (including cloth produce bags)
  Encourage businesses to have “No Idle Zones”
  Have more stores recycle the packaging that they put out (more recycle bins in stores in general)
  Businesses that we patronize should get involved in action teams (do more than donate $150)

City of Corvallis – not herbicides near Library and parks.

OSU Folk Club Thrift shop – incorporate more sustainable procedures.

Groceries – Cover freezers, reduce plastic usage(clam shells etc packaging), no plastic bags.

Have a report card on businesses on how they are doing during the year improving sustainable practices
Use compostable utensils
Accept alternative currency
Use more local products
More mixed use buildings combining business and housing.  Capture heat from business for residents living above
Business letting customers know what sustainable practices and products they use
Locally – leaning on large national business to be more sustainable in our community.  Example: Home Depot sells 8’ fluorescent bulbs, but will not take the 8’ back for recycling
More repair options – fixing broken equipment
More sources for recycling materials
Using Styrofoam packaging as insulation

Move quickly to take advantage of available funding: Take advantage of the Oregon’s Feed In Tariff, before it goes away.

Have gas stations provide electric charging for electric vehicles.

Make the emphasis on sustainability obvious: Physical transformation of their places to reflect sustainability:  (use sustainable practices or planting or rainwater harvesting), whether this is a requirement of that business or not.   Create a physical emphasis on sustainability.

Create a sustainability metric/performance score that could measure businesses and have it become public knowledge.   Would be great to have this on the front door of each business.  Think this would sow the seeds of big change.

Local focus: want businesses to buy local, especially food.

Want businesses to sell more local products and not have everything come from China.

Like to see businesses that I patronize doing business locally on many levels.  For example, I hope that they would purchase materials locally and carry out a very conscious purchasing.

Create a bidding process that enables local “makers” to provide the things that businesses need.  For example, instead of carrying a line of beautiful bowls from Germany or China, the business could put out a “local artist” line and put out a bid to carry these products.   Or they could “design” a needed line of bowls and find local artists to create this line of bowls.

Enable us to decorate our homes/businesses with local art.

Have goods available where we live/work/shop

Have all materials available to be purchased downtown, for example:  office supplies.

Cradle to Grave Focus

Sell used things alongside new things.

Take back broken things and fix them.    Would like to see a full cycle business that commits to repair what it sells or take back the trash that they put into the community.   (An example of this is the book binding store downtown!)

Apprentice young people to do that kind of “fix it” business.

Get together and advertise this kind of availability

Some of this exists already and people just don’t know about it.  Create an online directory of locally made things and places where these things are sold and where you can order things to be made locally.

Restaurants – compostable take-out boxes more common

Education about Styrofoam so businesses realize what they are buying

Issue: “buy more, buy more, sell more, sell more”

Live more simply, share more things like lawn mowers.

Hurtle: information about where people can find these items.

A small community sharing things – there needs to be a cultural shift – get past the “possession” focus – something breaks, it costs money

Water: more barrels for rainwater

Restaurants: tell consumers about what they are eating, where it came from; open windows when cooking (heat conservation)

Encourage people to walk or bike around – provide more bike stands.

Create enticing ideas to create a self-sufficient society: portable nuclear plants, wave energy; reduce needs until we can live with what we can create

Grocery owners should know more about where food is coming from, especially produce.  Co-op tracks produce and is working on bulk foods.  Other processed foods are more difficult, note the location of business.  Bi-mart too especially paper products not just location but source, e.g. old growth,  Fair trade items like chocolate and coffee.  Recycled content items generally cost more- with the info available at point of purchase consumers may choose to purchase the recycled content.

Recommend the “Story of Stuff”

Mobile stores to neighborhoods that are not near enough to shop buy walking

Local products should be labeled as such in all stores, not just at the coop.  (eg, where can one buy locally produced nails or bikes?)  this would encourage businesses and consumers to demand more locally produces products

Businesses should recognize those who use their “own fuel” – and track patronage of those who do.

Businesses can also offer promotions for those who do use alternate transportation, not shaming those who don’t, but encouraging those who do

Expand the bike commute challenge to all businesses in Corvallis

Businesses can invite sustainable suggestions in their stores and be open to the community’s voice

Businesses should showcase what they’re doing, offering visuals that customers can see!  (eg, the tv screens in waiting rooms or behind the checkout at Fred Myers can be used to show the business’ sustainable practices)

Start a ‘sustainable club’ of businesses that are part of the coalition, with a ‘seal of approval’ for all to see and recognize – to encourage shopping at those stores

Businesses should have to own the cost of their own CO2 production
Hurricane Wilma in Fl… stores that opened with generators- Costco had a much smaller generator due to most of the light coming from sky lights  Can more local businesses do this?  Light tubes too..link between environment and social- therapeutic aspects of natural light.
Would like sandwich shops and restaurants to reduce waste, add bins, join WPAT, and put reuse directory in restaurants.
Reduce political divisions over “green” or sustainability issues.

Reduce the “shorthand” used by the green community that may exclude others or trigger certain assumption-based reactions.

Grocery stores – try to buy local – tastes better – want to have every store indicate local items.
There is no place to buy men’s affordable clothing in the City.  Keep the money locally
Businesses should look at long-term plan for sustainability including all factors involved in that decision such as hiring people to wash dishes vs throwaway packaging.
Lighting used for advertising may be excessive
CIBA members should all accept local currency – Hour Exchange
Social economic side – Partnership to purchase health care for all workers in private businesses.  Can they put together a clinic or care package
Businesses should display their values and what they care about.  Not greenwashing – it may be a risk but then we may make them accountable too.
Marketing – Honor the marketing by paying for it – viral marketing
The bike shops should have cool museum of gear so it can be modeled
Use compostable bag material
See all restaurants use vegetable based “plastic” flatware (and make it clear that they are composting)
Would like to see more construction waste be reused
Could co-op lead way with more compostable materials?
Different financial structure for Allied Waste that would incentivize will call (or less waste)
We discussed why we patronize some of the businesses we do – many of us pay attention to things like whether or not people participate in Blue Sky, for example. The more companies communicate, the better.
We would like to see businesses cater to bicyclists as well as to cars. Could city make it easier?
Would like to see expansion of bus routes and times – fewer transfers
Would like to city city of Corvallis provide an incentive for avoiding grass – also builders and developers should be getting away from that
Stop selling bottled water.
Wish that businesses would protest amount of packaging that is used in products.
Plastic – how can we reduce use of plastic bags for vegetables, etc.?
Start charging 25 cents per bag?
Julie Manning: prefers carrots (e.g. co-op bean program) to sticks (charging for bags, bag bans)
Phase out Styrofoam take-out containers.
Businesses should list what they are doing, let us know (like in the scrapbook presentation).
Hotels could turn refrigerators off when rooms are vacant – how to create incentive for this?
OSU should turn off more lights at night, especially at Reser Stadium.
Plug-in stations in anticipation of electric cars.
Reduce lighting levels and heating power use.
More health information and location information labels on food, so we can buy local and healthy
Take-out restaurants allow us to bring our own dishes or containers, not use Styrofoam and other waste materials.
Grocery stores stop using plastic bags.
Stores give food leftover  to food banks, or compost it.
Allied Waste pick up food waste from high-volume places—grocery stores, restaurants. How could we make it worth their while?
Auto shops recycle or reuse all used motor oil.
Separate food waste for organic.
Organic farms sell organic compost.
Compost business that would separate organics.
No bottled water.
Insurance company give us a break for low-mileage driving. We drive only 1,500 miles/year.
All else being equal, hire people who are local to the area
o    Less driving
o    Employee swap?  For example, people who are working in Salem but live in Corvallis could “switch” jobs with those who live in Salem and work in Corvallis
Ask employer to switch/not switch to a closer/further area
Good Sam could use more local (not Sysco) and healthier food
City to not be putting fluoride in the water
Buses have an extended route out to Oak Creek and 34; expand public transportation
Rail transportation
Alternative transportation card discounts
Coffee places offer coffee grinds for composters
Move away from plastic bags, stop offering
More recycle options for items, easy drop-off or pick-up
Adopt the Natural Step system conditions
Do a sustainability assessment such as SCORE
Are local companies more sustainable than larger chain stores?
A waste food to pig farmers program to supply waste food to farms; credit to Peter Erskine and Jason Bradford
Reduce take out containers from restaurants
Everyone in Corvallis has a belt with plate / spork / bowl / cup and cloth napkin , Corvallis mess kit
Local restaurants get away from Styrofoam completely, recyclable or compostable containers. Maybe even have real plates and cutlery and napkins.  I’d like to see tons more covered bike parking.
More of the local restaurants to be on the food compost program. Only a core group is on there right now.
Donation of extra food from restaurants from gleaners group.  We have great gleaning groups.
No incentive for restaurants to do food waste, incentive to add on cost of composting to service.  Resident service is a lot lower than what businesses would have to pay.  Why does it make such a large difference in fees for residential and business?  Equalization in compost pick up services, so that is not a penalty to compost as a restaurant.
Restaurant pick up is daily?  Commercial rate needs to be charged.  No incentive for offices.  Level playing field in food composting – right now there is a tiered rate that Allied Waste uses.  Small starting companies don’t get on programs because they can’t handle the expense.
Businesses – not all businesses are visibly connected to sustainability.  Food businesses – can consumer know what they are getting. Food labeling needs to be better
Books. Are books recyclable or not? Do we want books at all? Are books sustainable?  Metal and wood products are not labeled.  Where are books produced? No labeling for other goods than food. Where is the paper for books made? Where is wood coming from?
Material use for services? Cleaning services? Banks? Where are
Banks – if we weren’t sending off money to bailouts if we had a state bank and a community bank, our funding for sustainability projects could be funded, or we could help stimulate the housing market,
Mutual fund for insurance in town. Being pushed by a partner. Why are we sending all our money away?  How can we keep funding local? Instead of bailing out banks, how can we help individual home owners keep their houses and not be foreclosed on?
# of drive-ins where people stop their vehicles for gas or for the bank drive through.  Why do vehicles leave their vehicles running?  It would save a fair amount of gasoline if drive-throughs could encourage individuals to shut of vehicles?
Timing of traffic lights could be improved to keep people moving instead of idling.  Many are great, but many need to be improved.
Bus service could be expanded to other areas – MLK Park has no bus service.  No bus service in Skyline neighborhood. Is there town service out to the airport?  More frequent bus service – if you miss the bus you might as well walk – buses run all frequently.
Smaller busses running more frequently?  Rerouting.  Employers setting start and end times based on bus arrival times.
Good thing is looking at businesses and talking to people, be observant, communicate with them.  Point out things, they have receptive ears.  Let them know thats what we want.
Local sourcing of products – nationwide chains-How do we fix this?
o    Fred Meyer – Started bringing products from China
o    Local businesses, family run, importing from China
o    Profit margins: they need to do it to survive
Find a way to make people speak up
o    If you want it made local, please be vocal
o    Tell the managers what you want, they’ll listen to you.
o    Balance transportation with local products
Consider asking government about it.  They are required to find the lowest cost bid.  Encourage legislation to find a balance with cost.  City, county, state governments.  Consider requiring that they balance distance with the cost.  Cheap wins, because true cost isn’t taken into consideration: job costs, environmental costs.
Buy local
o    Can be found at any level
o    Cost is often the only factor
o    Big businesses from Portland will make transport down, can this really be cheaper: yes
o    Reach out further than local to reduce the cost
Portland is better than cross country
Other than local businesses
o    Environmentally conscious offices
o    Folks do more lifecycle assessments on their products
o    This can find something easy to change to make it more sustainable
o    Allows consumer to continue through the cycle
Have businesses put the time into making products sustainable
This allows them to be more accessible
Yay Co-Op
Do more of an outreach so consumers know what they are doing.
Businesses concentrate on walking traffic, not petroleum-motorized ways
Composting, recycling facilities in restaurants, businesses, etc
Composting in schools
Winco – do something
Neighborhood groceries (more spread out, more accessible)
Better bike paths along Hwy-99 or more bus service (CV, north of town)
Decrease total amount of energy spent/consumed on transportation
More bike racks, covered bike park/area at each store
Affordable way to deliver groceries (better if wide-spread use)
2nd farmer’s market (traveling?), place orders through farmer’s market (like Gathering Together Farms)
Buy local, shop local, local, local, local…
Have businesses use better heating sources (ground source pump, solar, etc)
Cut down on junk mail (email first, stop sending the mail  saves money)
Charge for parking at high schools, use money to offset sustainability fees
Fitness Over 50: have a sustainability audit, for building and operations
More covered bike parking at businesses and OSU
Don’t give out plastic bags
More restaurants should have local, organic food (like Tarn Tip)
Better pet poop disposal options – maybe compostable baggies, and other solutions are needed
Buy local
Get the owner of the businesses into it, people who aren’t into it feel it’s a hassle
Stop using styrofoam
Have good bike racks.
Robnette’s Hardware needs to improve theirs.
There are programs through the city so that businesses can install good quality racks at little, or no, expense.  Trader Joe’s bike racks are not installed properly and should be fixed.
The city should have caught this in their initial building inspections.  The city could be more diligent about inspecting bike rack installation with new construction.
Inside bike parking is best.
Don’t automatically give bags and if a customer doesn’t want a bag, be sure they are not given bags or other extra packaging.
In general, businesses will reduce packaging.
If plastic packaging is being used, it should be easy to know if it’s recyclable and if so, how and where to recycle it.
More education should be available about how to compost and recycle.
Have signs that let people know the bus schedule for that location.  A counter card would be great.
Stores that offer to recycle extra packaging and paper receipts.
Let businesses know that you aren’t buying something that is packaged in plastic when no packaging is needed.
Restaurants should use compostable containers for doggy bags or take-out
Stores should stop using plastic bags
Restaurants should increase amount of sustainable meat or non-meat offerings and more organics
Large consumer-based institutions (hospital, schools) should serve healthy foods originating from local and sustainable sources
Stop offering bottled water
Reduce packaging; more bulk for all types of products.
Conference centers and take-out restaurants should use plasticware utensils that are compostable
Skylights in local businesses to utilize natural lighting and cut down on energy use/costs – decrease need for generators, lighting, simply more wall windows, example –women’s building at OSU (top floor, yoga classes), better for mental, emotional health, create a sustainable well-being as well
Grocery stores specify origins of foods, Richie’s example, food traveling mileage, average food travels 1,500 miles, Co-Op labels Local Six, difficult to distinguish in foods with many different ingredients, include origins of paper products, personal hygiene products, inform consumer of price differences on fair trade products such as chocolate and coffee, people may begin to understand why prices can be higher for healthier practices
People currently driving to shops where they can’t carry stuff back, we could provide food transportation / sort of an on-the-go store, moves around town so that people can shop without taking their car, bring the food to people rather than people to the food by fuel-driven transportation
Don’t offer non-recyclables
No plastic bags.
Have recycling bins everywhere & hide the trash cans
Recyclable packaging uniform across the country
Stamp code, eliminate uncertainty
Reminders to bring bags

What would you like to see your organization do this year to model sustainable practices?

Students at OSU would like to see the student fee be matched by the university administration currently students foot the bill at a cost of 850 a term
More solar power on public buildings in Corvallis
A fee for produce bags at the Co-op
Master Gardeners offer zero waste event
More zero waste events at OSU
Use less water
Dimmable lightbulbs

Partnering with other organizations to have a larger effect on projects

Get the workers involved in sustainability projects

Schools—huge waste problem during after school events. Organizers should be responsible.
Get off unwanted mail and unwanted FAX lists.
Pervious pavement in new developments instead of asphalt

Will restore riparian areas

Integrate sustainable agriculture with habitat restoration projects

Finish CoHo preventative tasks
Reduce lab waste at OSU
Free public transportation (bus) is great. Businesses should do what they can to increase rider-ship.
Offer employees taxi fare if they have biked, walked or bused to work and have to leave to take care of an emergency.
Employer incentives for biking, walking, carpooling, busing . . . to work.
Indoor bike parking for employees.
Organizations can help train young people in bicycle safety and benefit.
All organizations and citizens can keep sidewalks free of obstructions so that walking will be easier.
The city can use it’s leverage to enforce keeping sidewalks clear of vegetation, etc.
There should be incentives for restaurants and retail businesses to recycle and compost.
Likes free public transportation just begun in Corvallis.
Increase waste reduction/ food waste at more commercial kitchens and restaurants.
Allied Waste: reduce electricity. Reduce use of disposables internally.
Local Democrats: what to do with Styrofoam cups purchased in quantity years ago.
All business commit to calculating their carbon footprint.
Bike Co-op: put in and get permit (navigate city codes) for composting toilet.
Deal with city waste water issues. (departments work together)
Businesses should tell their sustainable story to help us know which we want to support.
Encourage patronage at businesses that are sustainable
Create sustainable “seal of approval” for businesses.
Oddfellows: recently got a special kitchen license that will cover all Oddfellows Hall renters, and would like to donate the use of that kitchen for folks to take classes on sustainable home practices, such as canning.
Customer is bothered by excess refrigeration in the aisles of grocery stores ALL over the place.  Perception that displays are NOT energy efficient is NOT good for the psychology business, even though studies show that customers will purchase more if displays are open.  Co-op employee says they are re-looking at their current displays to see if they can make any changes to save additional energy.

Encourage employees to use alternative transportation

Have everything we need on the truck at the beginning of the day so we don’t have to run a lot of errands

Set goals for resource usage and get the staff involved in reaching those goals (e.g., pounds of water used)

Use less paper for printing!

Encourage OSU to set standards for printing (e.g., double-sided, 1.5 spacing instead of double, and smaller margins)

Install bike racks

Upgrade to energy efficient lights

Students should be prohibited from bringing cars to campus in their first and second years, or OSU could provide a tuition or book credit for not owning a car

LWV more car pooling

Ride Share list within organizations
Dial a Bus using more sustainable transportation – hybrids etc.  Looking to grants and donations from dealers.
Using salvaged materials – not always most cost effective but good for the environment.
Promote creative and innovative ideas for use of everyday materials
No plastic bag policies/use and bring your own reusable
Work with local business to come up with incentives for more use of reusable bags
Work in our own kitchens at home to reduce waste.
Invite locally respected speakers to rural schools to address issues of sustainability in ways that appeal to target audiences.
Work with rural teachers and students on recycling in the classroom and schools.
Work with Allied Waste, or other local waste hauler, to overcome waste reduction barriers in rural areas
Work with school custodial to manage recycling better
Get Julie Jackson, or others as needed, to give a presentation to rural schools
Work within the Odd Fellows organization to increase and improve recycling practices
Take a systematic look at things that are impediments to Sustainability and remove them (e.g. City of Corvallis adopted a goal by this December about what kind of changes we’d like to see in code.  Nutritious food availability in Corvallis and make them into law and code by December 2012.  Right now, you can’t grow food on your property and sell it;  you can’t grow food on a vacant lot next to your home and sell it.  Can’t grow food on commercial property and eat it yourself! )
Take a systematic look at reducing overall impact and begin implementing.
Includes reducing energy use and producing some energy.    Begin implementing.
Shapiro’s Chiropractic Business:  putting more permaculture into the house and office.
EcoVillage’s Long Range plan.
Put solar on to e able to sell back (e.g., on the roof of Partner’s Place)
Corvallis School District’s Safe Routes to School program wants to get online to reduce paper use
The Montessori School wants to use more cardboard binders from the business “rebinder” to use instead of throw away plastic.
Reduce paper use in the office.
Work to make the house more energy efficient.
More benches around town made out of recycled materials.
Shop more locally.
Benton County could get more involved in water issues – many rural areas have insufficient supplies and damaged rivers.
OSU could install more covered bike parking or bike lockers.
OSU could do more teleconferencing, less travel for business and conferences.
OSU – cut back on plastic bottles
Better job with recycling, and lot of recyling education in schools
Better shipping practices (away from foam, for example)
Get rid of Pepsi contracts (OSU)?
Not have water bottles for Kinetic Sculpture racers at daVinci Days – Hand out paper cups
Use more local hours currency and go towards zero waste – not zero trash
Scouts collecting Styrofoam? Can it be monetized?
Make cars less attractive – wooden seats, no entertainment, broken heaters and no air conditioning
Odd Fellows wants to put a solar panel on the roof.
Schools encourage students to bike and walk.
Mid-Valley Bicycle Club will make its events sustainable this year.
Self-assessment/audit of own company to improve efforts
Growing more of our own food and improve the quality of soil
Less pesticide and herbicide used and then getting into compost
Incentives for alternative modes of transportation
Showers and changing rooms for employees for bikers
Will restore riparian areas
Integrate sustainable agriculture with habitat restoration projects
Finish CoHo preventative tasks
Reduce lab waste at OSU
Sewing project over the summer so church can get rid of using paper napkins.  Volunteer sewing project.
Church going through lighting upgrade project, next up we need to address heating – weather stripping, furnace review, needs to start working really soon to get around to fixing things.
UU Church is put together from a variety of buildings – all mixed up together. Heat pump from one side of the building to the other – inefficient.
Most churches could pick up some sustainability goals.
Green Party could be more visible with leadership and advocacy
Fall Festival will begin composting this year with voluntary vendors, will try to make it compulsory next year, like daVinci Days (they are already recycling and have greatly reduced trash going to the landfill)
OSU Folk Thriftshop – working on diverting items from the landfill to be reused instead, want to join the Sustainability Coalition (contact Pat Smythe about this), want to get an evaluation of the building (Cassandra?), maybe a living roof?
League of Women Voters – promote more carpooling and electronic communication
Methodist Church (and other churches, too) PV panels for electricity production
Switch to better lighting
Free public transportation (bus) is great.  Businesses should do what they can to increase rider-ship.
Offer employees taxi fare if they have biked, walked or bused to work and have to leave to take care of an emergency.
Employer incentives for biking, walking, carpooling, busing . . . to work.
Indoor bike parking for employees.
Organizations can help train young people in bicycle safety and benefit.
All organizations and citizens can keep sidewalks free of obstructions so that walking will be easier.
The city can use it’s leverage to enforce keeping sidewalks clear of vegetation, etc.
There should be incentives for restaurants and retail businesses to recycle and compost.
At OSU turn computers off when not in use and turn the heat down overnight and weekends