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	Home About Reverse Zone, weblog on urban planning, sustainability, and technology. Martin Laplante Subscribe to an RSS feed of this weblog. Links A few favourite links. Planetizen Cyburbia LookWAYup dictionary RES Policy Research Inc. Medical Reference AI Topics Pattern Language Scale Down, Windsor Raise the Hammer Price Tags Urban Squares NYC Streets Grush Hour Save Griffintown DNS Help Friends' Blogs David Wilson Viktor Toth Michael Geist Recent posts The Delicate Balancing Act of Downtowns and the Death of Griffintown Internet Identity Keystone Kops LA Transit Plan Aims to Save 725 Metric Tons of GHG Annually by 2030 New York City's Congestion Pricing Plan Dies Yet Again New York Discovers Existing Direct Democracy Zoning Rule Driving is Going Down in the US The Commuting Turnaround in Canada Vancouver Churches Get a Licence to Break the Law Carbon Capture and Storage For Canada Prince of Wales Promotes Health, Wealth, and Courtesy Physical Measures Reduce Trips by How Much? Tall Buildings Incompatible with New Urbanism Direct Voter Control of Comprehensive Plans Fails TOD Mindset Moving Away From Pedestrian-friendly Focus Land Use Responsible for Biofuel Carbon Debt Places to Grow - Pictures Tell the Story How do the New Fuel Efficiency Standards Compare with California and Europe? Why We Still Need Separation of Uses Wikia Search Launches, Minus the Unique Features Malls as Make-believe Town Centres Minus the Wrong Kind of People NASA's scrambled data: it's not rocket science What Did John Baird Know and When Did He Know It? Is the Pope For or Against Urgent Climate Change Action? Dense Condos Do Not Revitalize Carbon Offsets in Ontario Is Carbon Sequestration Completely Useless? Hot Air - How to Beat Climate Change By Burning More Coal Congestion Pricing, Privacy, and Mesh Wireless Networking Cycling Will Kill You, But Not Cycling Will Kill You More Sprawl as Linear Population Density 2008/04 2008/03 2008/02 2008/01 2007/12 2007 2006 2005 Complete List of Posts View blog top tags Technorati Profile	Thu, 14 Dec 2006 Environment Hamilton Response to Climate Change The non-profit organization Environment Hamilton released on Monday a ten-point plan of low-cost actions that the new city council can undertake to address climate change. The EH response to climate change report is a brief set of 10 suggestions, with relatively little quantification of the expected effects, but both GHG and smog reductions are mentioned in the document. Among the recommendations are Free public transit on all smog days. High occupancy vehicle lanes on at least two major east-west corridors An anti-idling bylaw A moratorium and phase out of commercial drive-thru operations. A bylaw banning or restricting the use of gasoline-powered leaf blowers and weed whackers. Double the urban tree canopy by 2025. An after-hours lights-out program for city facilities and offices and encourage private businesses to do the same. The end of drive-thrus is interesting and controversial. Other cities, including Ottawa, have done it. The reasoning for it is not necessarily the GHG emissions resulting from the idling, but rather the fact that the design is auto-centred and makes a pedestrian-centred commercial street very difficult to achieve. Banning them gets people out of their cars both literally and figuratively. The ban on gasoline-powered leaf blowers and weed whackers is also interesting. These are major contributors to smog, both when they are in use and when they are being fuelled. I would add lawn mowers to the list. The hydrocarbons released into the air on hot days are a major source of smog. Tags: Transportation Transportation Planning Greenhouse Gas Climate Change Environment Hamilton [] permanent link Comments: 0