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Did you miss the carbon neutral community forum? You can watch it here! Here are the materials for the Energy group: 10-09-14 Energy of the Built Environment FINAL Energy Carbon Neutral,  Slideshare, Sept 14 2010 Energy Carbon Neutral, PowerPoint, Sept 14 2010

In case you missed the carbon neutral community forum on September 14, you can view it here! Here are the materials that were presented. Youth Carbon Neutral white paper Seattle Youth Committee, Slideshare, September 14,2010 Youth Carbon Neutral, PowerPoint, September14, 2010

In case you missed the carbon neutral community forum last week, here are the presentation materials for the Food Systems group! Food Carbon Neutral white paper Food Carbon Neutral on Slideshare, September 14 Food Carbon Neutral on PowerPoint, September 14

by Gene Homicki The Neighborhood workgroup needs to rapidly sort almost 150 ideas on how to improve Seattle neighborhoods while kick-starting us down the path toward carbon neutrality.   Would you like to see more local mom & pop shops within walking distance?  How about better infrastructure for electric bicycles and other vehicles?  Perhaps you’d like […]

The Council recognizes there is a wealth of projects and initiatives happening in our community today that are enabling our city to reach its climate protections goals. To highlight and support this existing good work, and to gather ideas from a broad set of residents, the Council is seeking recommendations from community members on what Seattle is and should be doing to continue on the path towards carbon neutrality.

In January of this year, the Seattle City Council announced that that achieving carbon neutrality was one of its priorities. In May, Van Jones came to Seattle and spoke about the incredible opportunity Seattle has to make history and to continue to make opportunities for other cities to do the right thing.

In 2010, the City Council established carbon neutrality as one of its sixteen Council priorities. This commitment builds on Seattle’s history of environmental leadership including efforts in 2000 to create the first carbon neutral electric utility, and the 2005 effort to get cities across the nation to commit to meet the Kyoto Protocol targets for greenhouse gas reduction and Seattle’s Climate Action Plan.