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Plan and prioritizing <br />bike/ped <br />• Leave the Leaves <br />• IRA incentives <br />• EV Busses <br />• Neighborhood <br />composting in Carrboro <br />• More sustainability in <br />Parks in Hillsborough <br />• Vehicle electrification <br />• Orange County schools <br />getting solar to charge <br />busses and energize <br />auditorium <br />• Repair Café <br />• Climate friendly energy <br />at UNC <br />• 35 Master gardeners in <br />Orange County <br />• Orange County getting 5 <br />Electric Busses <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 /> <br />• Connecting cisterns to <br />irrigate gardens in OC <br />• Potential future <br />environmental <br />protections and IRA <br />funding being rolled <br />back <br />• Climate Naysayers <br />• Not enough technicians, <br />asset managers and <br />young people in the <br />clean tech field <br />• Potential for regulation <br />loss in the future <br />• Federal chaos <br />• Helene <br />• Increase in applicants <br />for Community Climate <br />Action Grants in Orange <br />County <br />• EV charging network <br />expanding <br />• Solar for All <br />• Electric landscaping <br />• Solar batteries <br />decreasing in price <br />• Chapel Hill Sustainable <br />building assessment <br />• UNC using old solar <br />panels that were not <br />functioning for swap for <br />solar PV system for hot <br />water <br />• Eno River acquisition of <br />old Speedway <br />• Hyper-local community <br />relationship building <br /> <br /> <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