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Plan and prioritizing • Connecting cisterns to • Increase in applicants <br /> bike/ped irrigate gardens in OC for Community Climate <br /> • Leave the Leaves • Potential future Action Grants in Orange <br /> • IRA incentives environmental County <br /> • EV Busses protections and IRA • EV charging network <br /> • Neighborhood funding being rolled expanding <br /> composting in Carrboro back • Solar for All <br /> • More sustainability in • Climate Naysayers • Electric landscaping <br /> Parks in Hillsborough • Not enough technicians, • Solar batteries <br /> • Vehicle electrification asset managers and decreasing in price <br /> • Orange County schools young people in the • Chapel Hill Sustainable <br /> getting solar to charge clean tech field building assessment <br /> busses and energize • Potential for regulation • UNC using old solar <br /> auditorium loss in the future panels that were not <br /> • Repair Cafe • Federal chaos functioning for swap for <br /> • Climate friendly energy • Helene solar PV system for hot <br /> at UNC water <br /> • 35 Master gardeners in • Eno River acquisition of <br /> Orange County old Speedway <br /> • Orange County getting 5 • Hyper-local community <br /> Electric Busses relationship building <br /> • Orange County Ag <br /> Summit Promoting <br /> Sustainable Ag <br /> • Green Neighborhoods <br /> Program <br /> • Neighborhood <br /> composting program <br /> • Town of Carrboro <br /> getting their first EVs <br /> • Town of Carrboro <br /> completing fleet study <br /> John Richardson led a discussion about working collaboratively on a Year of the campaign <br /> (similarly modeled after NC State Parks Year of Campaign only with a climate focus. The idea being that <br /> we would have a different climate related topic each year). He discussed how a lot of our GHG <br /> emissions are coming from buildings and how a beneficial electrification campaign could work to reduce <br /> our GHG emissions from this sector. We anticipate state energy funds to be rolled out soon to help <br /> support electrification of things like gas furnaces and stoves, installation of EV chargers, etc. <br /> The group liked the idea and batted around a few names for such a campaign including"Year of the <br /> Plug", "Year of the Charge", "Electrify Your Life", and "Year of Going Electric". We could further <br />