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What are your Board/Commission’s most important accomplishments? <br />x Planning the 2019 State of the Environment report and 12/4/19 Summit <br />(2018, 2019) <br />x Prepared resolutions for BOCC consideration concerning: Anti-Idling <br />Campaign, Support for Carbon Fee and Dividend legislation, Request for <br />NC to Divest from Fossil Fuel Corporations, Roadside Wildflower <br />Conservation (2018) <br />x Developed recommendations for the County’s Climate Change Program <br />scoring system (2019) <br />x Created subcommittee for Roadside Wildflower Conservation (2019) <br />x Requested the BOCC consider joining the Global Covenant of Mayors and <br />Chairs organization concerned with global climate change (2018) <br />x Wrote a series of climate change articles (2017) <br />x Developed and posted a Facebook page (2017) <br />x Edited and recommended a renewable energy resolution to the BOCC <br />(2017) <br />x Recruited UNC capstone students to assist with the 2019 State of the <br />Environment report (2017) <br />x Provided input on updates to the Lands Legacy Action Plan (2017) <br />x Made recommendations to BOCC on UDO amendment to flexible <br />subdivisions (2016) <br />x Initiated a series of newspaper articles on environmental issues featured <br />previously in the Orange County State of the Environment report (2015- <br />16) <br />x Made recommendations to BOCC on 2016 bond package, the use of <br />pesticides at County facilities, and incentives for energy efficient <br />construction (2015) <br />x Commented to Planning Bd. on proposed changes to impervious surface <br />rules (2015) <br />x Provided ideas for Public Services Announcements for County radio spots <br />(2015) <br />x Collaborated with others on energy conservation and mgmt. projects <br />(2015-16) <br />x Published the 2014 Orange County State of the Environment report <br />(reports were previously completed in 2000, 2002, 2004, and 2009) <br />x Convened Orange County Environmental Summit (2005, 2009, 2014) <br />x Made recommendations to BOCC on food waste and solid waste tax <br />district (2014) <br />x Worked with Orange County Schools to introduce local environmental <br />indicators into middle and high school science curricula (2004, 2009, <br />2014) <br />x Hosted a Solid Waste Forum with the Chapel Hill Sustainability Committee <br />(2013) <br />$WWDFKPHQW