What is one way that your community could implement equity into climate-related planning or programs in 2020?

Have city/town energy committee include range of diverse organizations and not just environmental activists

Get out in the field. Talk to people face to face.

Focus on bringing people of color and people from EJ neighborhoods in at the beginning of the process

Setting up childcare for climate events as not just childcare, but "learn and play" sessions for young children around climate issues - make the time valuable for the family as a whole.

Meet them where they are

Include energy related programs that work for renters (not just homeowners)

A FREE downtown Urban 'Circulator' Bus route that is funded via PPP

Translate more materials into languages spoken in the community

Roundtable stakeholder Advisory Committee

Building green jobs and workforce development into program delivery

Advisory committee membership

Transportation for low-income people: protected, separated bike lanes.

Consider age based needs

Listen, early and often, to frontline and marginalized communities and populations.

Include people with disabilities/limited mobility in transportation planning

Influence construction companies to embrace green construction technology

Outreach to younger constituents

Better outreach to underrepresented rural communities in the region

Hire companies with an emphasis on inclusion

Using simple language, not jargon

Assistance to existing affordable housing facilities toward net zero

Educate communities of color of their vulnerability

Have racial equity training for ALL staff

When updating public housing, use net zero technologies.

Paying underserved community for participation in processes

Local and urban agriculture, reduce food deserts

Publicize effects of climate neglect, on vulnerable areas

Mixed-use development + walkable communities

Demographic survey to determine key groups at start of outreach process.

Include intentional involvement of untraditional stakeholders in MVP grants

Minority and women contractor requirements on projects

Meet people where they are

Convene town halls with EJ community

Air filtration systems in houses by busy roadways

Target education and resources towards groups that don't typically participate in the climate conversation

Honorariums

Partnering with community groups that are already doing the work and meeting them where they are

Include local communities in decision-making

Subsidize mass transit costs for low income individuals

Increased emphasis on multifamily housing rather than large single family houses.

Reduce cost of public transit to zero

Engage the non-traditional partners that have the pulse of the community

Workshop for all climate adaptation working group members on climate equity; partner with trusted organization to engage under-represented populations around climate change issues.

Funding participation

Outreach into the less-affluent/high rental unit neighborhoods

Hire diverse staff

Better understand underserved populations.

Tax luxury development and redistribute funds to climate adaptation in frontline communities.

Build more public transportation

Engaging and listening to diverse stakeholders

Make our steering/implementation committees more diverse and inclusive

Set equity-related goals and targets for measuring implementation success.

Reach out to groups that don't typically participate.

Solicit feedback from Env Justice community

Intentionally organizing to bring residents who are directly effected into the conversation of planning and development

Identify transit islands

Community-driven and community led planning

Childcare at climate related meetings

More and better bus routes and bus lanes!

Community partnerships