Previous Meetings

September 24th Materials

• (1) Organize to help the salvage site remain open and improve/expand it
• (2) Create a network and market for people who offer local and sustainable materials
• (3) Create a REUSE building or useful materials swap that could also incorporate trainings and local resource education
• Send letter surveying builders about choice of materials and waste
• Virtual or in person tours of local buildings that use alternative and local materials
• Education pointing toward reducing and reusing vs. recycling, also educate on what and how to recycle (revamp KARE)
• How-to guide or workshop for building a NetZero house on the Kenai Peninsula, linking in to a network of people that could provide local expertise
• Creating standards/building codes/education for buildings that incorporate more local materials and more sustainable materials in a SAFE and climate conscious way
• Financial incentives for recycling + looping the borough in
• Create a network and market for people who offer local and sustainable materials
• Encourage reused materials in local art installations
• Co-op for efficient appliances + education campaign around water conservation

August 27th Transportation

• (1) Minimass transit for the kenai peninsula
• (2) Advocating for HEA to provide rebates or subsidies for Ebikes
• (3) Creating a certification program for water taxi and charters that are using cleaner fuel/efficiency or who are buying into the carbon offset credit program
• Spearhead a community based marketing campaign encouraging investment in local stores, bulk buying and reducing individual shipping
• Carpooling program / Neighborhood based shuttle service during high traffic months
• Lobbying for roundabouts
• Analysis of a utilitarian use of HART funds to increase non-motorized transportation for low income populations
• Boat pooling
• Bulk source buying and shipping for batteries/ energy storage
• program for people to rent E vehicles
• Network to install charging stations and e fleets
• Education around sharing the road, partnering with the homer cycling club

August 6th Women and Girls

• (1) Support programs that get girls outside
• (2) Educate teachers about gender biases
• (3) Expand educations for girls around family planning and substance misuse
• Support higher levels of education funding
• Highlight local female leaders, spotlight their careers and create a mentorship program for young women
• Create a scholarship program for no questions asked to travel across the bay
• Work with the school board to require more gender studies learning in school
• Support female candidates in building their platform on climate action
• Ensure equal access in the Borough agriculture program

July 16th Land Use - Watch a recording of the meeting

• (1) For Peat's Sake: An education campaign to support peatland carbon storage. Use art as  Incentivize landowners to conserve, possibly through a property tax break
• (2) Volunteer carbon offset market geared towards tourists
• (3) Support the National Estuary Research Reserve System peatland carbon project
• Design and implement interpretive plaques in Homer wetland areas
• Manage motorized travel damage in local wetlands
• Increase public awareness of fire hazards, incentivize fire breaks around homes in the form of property tax credits)
• Support the Borough in addressing the carbon-cost of developing lands for fracking in the permitting process
• Educate the borough on the value of the lands in terms of carbon sequestration
• Organize community activities to educate and celebrate lands over a weekend
• Cook Inlet watershed approach to land management - create a multi borough land management plan
• Peat Conservancy

June 18th Buildings and Cities - Watch a recording of the meeting

• (1) Bike path and walkability improvements
• (2) Carbon offset program to support low-income residential home efficiency improvements
• (3) City of Homer cost and carbon analysis for new buildings and improvements
• Partnering with HEA and having financial incentives/on-bill financing for heat pumps
• Financial incentives for smart thermostats
• A city commission that would focus on carbon and cost analysis
• Stormwater improvement system with a focus on green infrastructure
• City building life cycle cost analysis
• City annual report on building costs, energy usage and carbon emission

May 21st, 2020 Food Solutions - Watch a recording of the meeting

• (1) Municipal/Community Compost Project
• (2) Shelve stable canning, processing and storage co-op
• (3) Food waste reduction project
• Female focused small boat and ocean subsistence classes
• Meatless Mondays / Plant-based diet campaign
• Community Gardens
• BioChar project
• Localize school meals with commercially caught salmon

April 16th, 2020 Energy Solutions

• (1) Pool collective buying power, similar to the Solarize campaign, to make heat pumps more affordable.
• (2) Data collection for a wind farm on Bald Mountain, Olson Mountain, Diamond Ridge and/or Bradley Lake.
• (3) Pursue adding hydropower to the Homer reservoir.
• Identify/Pursue a financing model for low-income households to make energy improvement projects, such as on-bill financing.
• Create a marketing a program for a voluntary carbon offset market that encourages tourists to offset their travel to raise funds for Homer climate solutions
• Create a marketing plan to incentivize researchers and entrepreneurs to pilot tidal energy technology in Homer.
• Add wind turbines to the light poles on the spit.
• Farm alder and cottonwood for a large scale biomass generator.
• Methane capture system at the Homer landfill
• Pilot a tidal/hydro combo project in a harbor lagoon by creating a dam that opens until high tide, closes until low tide, then releases water to turn a turbine.
• Secure funding and invest in a biomass generator for a public building such as the library or police station.