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Transportation Recommendation #5: Limit Idling in School Loading Zones ............. .............................33 <br />Transportation Recommendation #6: Improve Bicycle and Pedestrian Infrastructure .........................34 <br />Renewable Energy Measures ......................................................................................... .............................35 <br />Renewable Energy Recommendation #1: Pursue Community Solar Projects ........... .............................36 <br />Renewable Energy Recommendation #2: Pursue Downtown Geothermal Heating and Cooling .......... <br />37 <br />Renewable Energy Recommendation #3: Create Rental Property Task Force and Process ...................38 <br />Ecosystem Protection and Enhancement ...................................................................... .............................39 <br />Ecosystem Recommendation #1: Pursue Stormwater Utility .................................... .............................41 <br />Ecosystem Recommendation #2: Evaluate Extent to Which the Deer Population and Climate Change <br />affect Native Plant Ecosystems .................................................................................. .............................43 <br />Ecosystem Recommendation #3: Accelerate /Expand Organic Waste Collection /Composting .............45 <br />Ecosystem Recommendation #4: Tree Preservation, Protection and Conservation . .............................47 <br />Ecosystem Recommendation #5: Improve Regulations and Community Capacity to Discourage <br />Invasive Plants and Encourage Native Plants ............................................................ .............................48 <br />Ecosystem Protection and Restoration Challenge #6: Pursue Watershed Restoration Actions to <br />Protect Local Streams from Changes in Rainfall Due to Climate Change ................ ............................... <br />50 <br />FoodChoice Measures ................................................................................................... .............................52 <br />Food Choice Recommendation #1: 50% Challenge ................................................. ............................... <br />53 <br />Food Choice Recommendation #2: Develop Local Dietary Consumption and Associated GHG Profile. <br />55 <br />Implementation Recommendations .............................................................................. .............................58 <br />Appendix1 ..................................................................................................................... .............................60 <br />Summary of 2016 Public Outreach .......................................................................... ............................... <br />60 <br />Appendix2 ..................................................................................................................... .............................75 <br />Boulder's Local Climate Action Plan and Climate Commitment ................................ .............................75 <br />Appendix3 ..................................................................................................................... .............................76 <br />How the Jones Household Goes Carbon Free in 10 Years ......................................... .............................76 <br />Appendix4 ..................................................................................................................... .............................79 <br />10 Things You Want to Know about Human Nature if you're Fighting Climate Change ........................79 <br />Appendix5 ..................................................................................................................... .............................83 <br />Energy in the 21st Century: Excerpts from Post Carbon Institute's Energy Primer ... .............................83 <br />