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Sp2 evanston climate action plan update and evanston livability plan presentation 5.19.14 final
- 1. 5/19/14 1 Catherine Hurley Sustainable Programs Coordinator May 19, 2014 Evanston Climate Action Plan Update
- 2. 5/19/14 2 Evanston Sets Bold Climate Action Goal • 13% emissions reduction by 2012 • 220 strategies over 7 categories • Model of community and City collaboration • Adopted November 2008
- 3. 5/19/14 3 Evanston Achieves Climate Action Goal
- 4. 5/19/14 4 • Smart policies establish Evanston as Green Building destination • Electricity aggregation and local renewable energy deliver savings • Strong culture and infrastructure for green transportation • Community engagement Keys to Success
- 5. 5/19/14 5 Evanston an Early Adopter of STAR Community Rating System
- 6. 5/19/14 6 Evanston Recognized as National Leader in Sustainability with 4-STAR Rating
- 7. 5/19/14 7 Sustain Evanston is Formed, Facilitates New Climate Action Strategy • Informal network of environmental groups • 12-month planning process • Builds upon success and lessons learned • Focus on energy and transportation • Public engagement campaign integral part of plan
- 8. 5/19/14 8 •Goal: 20% emission reduction by 2016 •Action Plan: 5 Key Strategies • Residential green power • Business green power • Building retrofits • Transportation change • Commitment by City and other major institutions Evanston Livability Plan May 2014
- 9. 5/19/14 9 Evanston Livability Plan • Strategy: Maintain 100% green power for residents • Emissions Target: 1,915 MTC02e / year • What it will take: – City secured 3-year contract for 100% green energy for aggregation program – Add 500 residential customers/year Residential Green Power
- 10. 5/19/14 10 Evanston Livability Plan • Strategy: Develop and implement green energy program for mid-sized businesses • Emissions Target: 6,350 MTC02e / year • What it will take: – Partner with Homefield Energy to promote green energy options – Recruit 400 businesses to secure green energy Business Green Power
- 11. 5/19/14 11 Evanston Livability Plan • Strategy: Improve building efficiency through intensive retrofit program • Emissions Target: – 1,250 MTCO2e / year (residential) – 5,345 MTCO2e / year (commercial) • What it will take: – Retrofit 250 homes/year – Leverage existing utility and other partner programs Building Retrofits
- 12. 5/19/14 12 Evanston Livability Plan Transportation Change • Strategy: Improve transportation systems and drive behavior change • Emissions Target: – 4,040 MTCO2e / year • What it will take: – Reduce 1,428 vehicle miles traveled per household – Remove barriers and enhance existing transportation options – Engage community in public outreach campaign focused on healthier mobility
- 13. 5/19/14 13 Evanston Livability Plan City and Major Institution Commitment • Strategy: Secure commitments from seven major employers • Emissions Target: – 333 MTCO2e / year (City) – 2% emissions reduction / year (Other Employers) • What it will take: – Building retrofits, fleet efficiencies – Employee engagement campaigns for commuting and workplace travel
- 14. 5/19/14 14 Evanston Livability Plan Next Steps • Create action teams for community engagement • Reach out to large employers and business community • Launch community engagement campaign • EvanstonGreenBuzz.org and EvanstonLivability.org as hub for online resources
- 15. 5/19/14 15 •Audubon Chicago Region •Citizens’ Greener Evanston •Evanston Environmental Association •Evanston Environment Board •Evanston Interreligious Sustainability Circle •Evanston Rebuilding Warehouse •Evanston Utilities Commission •League of Women Voters of Evanston •St. Nicholas Church Green Team Evanston Livability Plan Endorsements Staff and Sustain Evanston seek City Council Adoption of the Evanston Livability Plan and its Goals
- 16. 5/19/14 16 For more information: cityofevanston.org/sustainability evanstongreenbuzz.org CERTIFIED 4-STAR COMMUNITY
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- Madame Mayor and Members of City Council; City Manager Bobkiewicz and Clerk Green: Catherine Hurley, Sustainable Programs Coordinator I am pleased to be here tonight to provide an update on Evanston’s Evanston Climate Action Plan and an exciting next phase for climate action work in Evanston.
- Evanston has a long history of commitment to environmental stewardship and this commitment was reflected in Evanston’s first climate action work. Evanston agreed to sign the US Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement to meet or beat the targets of the 2005 Kyoto Protocol and set out to develop a Climate Action Plan. The plan established a goal of reducing emissions by 13% below 2005 levels by the end of 2012. The climate action plan was developed in a year-long process with involvement from more than 130 community members to develop strategies to help meet the city’s goal. This effort has created a model of successful collaboration between the City and community and has been replicated in the midwest and beyond. The plan was finalized and approved in November of 2008. The Office of Sustainability was created and the City and community partners have worked to implement the plan. Evanston was one of the early communities to formally adopt a climate action plan, and among a small handful of smaller communities that is now positioned to develop a new one.
- I am happy to report that Evanston achieved its Climate Action Plan Goal of a 13% reduction in emissions. Overall community emissions ( which includes City operational plus community) have reduced by 128,744 metric tons of carbon emissions. On this slide you can see the combined total emissions and the goal from the Climate Action Plan. It is important to note that the City’s operational emissions are only a small part of the Community’s overall emissions so we have to work together to reach out goal – and we did. The City exceeded our proportion of the Climate Action Goal, reducing emissions by 32% or 7,923 metric tons of carbon emissions.
- So how did Evanston accomplish this bold and ambitious goal? The packet contained a ECAP status report which will also be available on the City’s website. Some of the highlights include: The City adopted smart policies such as the Green Building Ordinance, to ensure that new buildings would be significantly more efficient than they would otherwise. The ordinance provides a roadmap for buildings to be more efficient and requires larger buildings to meet LEED certification. Since the Ordinance was originally adopted, Evanston has become a destination for green development and project developers and owners see value for them to develop more efficient buildings. Evanston was selected by Walgreens Company to build their flagship green building - The Walgreens’ Net Zero Store on Chicago avenue – because they knew that the community would embrace and celebrate the project. Our existing buildings are also becoming more energy efficient. Energy usage in Evanston on a per-person basis has decreased by 12% since 2005, showing that our individual actions are also making a contribution to reduce energy use and emissions. The biggest overall reduction in emissions is from our electricity aggregation program. For the last 2 years the City has procured energy supply on behalf of residential and small business customers. As part of this program, the City purchased green energy in the form of renewable energy certificates equal to 100% of the energy used by the City’s aggregation program. City Council also signed a three-year agreement last month with Homefield Energy to deliver 100% green energy to homes and small businesses, securing these savings for the next three years. The City has produced green for its own facilities and other organizations in town have done the same, including Northwestern University. Evanston has also supported local green energy through several small projects, including a 25kw solar array on our Water Treatment Plant and those on private businesses. In the area of transportation, Evanston has worked to developed both infrastructure and a culture of green transportation that will have a long-term positive impact on our transportation habits. At the City operations, transportation emissions have decreased by right-sizing our fleet and biodiesel has been used to replace regular diesel in City vehicles. Enhancements have been made to bicycle routes and parking including the Church Street and Davis Street with more improvements in the planning phases. The city continues to support and increase Car Sharing and the pool of I-GO and ZipCars has increased. Across the community, the city and many partners work to provide education, outreach and advocacy to promote biking, waking, rollerblading, carpooling and the use of public transportation. The City and community partners also support three annual events including Bike the Ridge, Bike to Work Week and Car Free Day, which encourage bicycling and other forms of less polluting transportation. Community engagement and participation is a key factor in Evanston’s success and many of those community volunteers have come to night to celebrate Evanston’s success and show their support.
- Evanston has accomplished much but as a leader we strive to understand what more we can be doing to fulfill our goal of creating the “Most Livable City in America”. On our theme of continuous improvement and integrated solutions, Evanston became an early adopter of the STAR Community Rating system that evaluates communities across environmental, social, and economic factors to get a better picture of community sustainably. LEED is a rating system for Buildings and STAR Communities is a rating system at the community level. Communities can be recognized as a 3, 4, or 5 STAR Community. More than 70 communities representing 33+million people across North America are participating in the STAR Community Rating System. Staff and community volunteers collected data across all departments and dozens of community partners for information on everything from economic development, to climate action, to education and arts and natural systems.
- OnN March 7th Mayor Tisdahl made the announcement at her State of the City address that Evanston was certified as a 4-STAR Community! We were only the second City to receive this rating and among the early adopters! Since that time, the certified communities include: Certified 4-STAR Communities Tacoma, WA, Broward County, FL, Evanston, IL, Austin, TX Certified 3-STAR Communities Indianapolis, IN, Lee County, FL, Fort Collins, CO Evanston received 488 point, more than exceeding the 400 needed for the 4-STAR Community Rating. Moving forward, we will be looking to evaluate where Evanston received points and additional areas of improvement. The STAR Community system touches so many facets of our community life and an early task will be to make presentations to our boards, committees, commissions, community groups and partners to share the good news and develop and action plan.
- Evanston’s initial climate action plan had a planning horizon through 2012 and last year citizens and community groups expressed an interest working on a next goal and action plan. Evanston is fortunate to have many environmental organizations and volunteers that want to be part of the process. In the fall of 2012, the Office of Sustainability conveniened more than 20 groups who are working to address climate change, energy, and environmental sustainability. This informal network is now referred to as “Sustain Evanston” and meets 2-3 times per year. In 2013, a working group of Sustain Evanston began a 12-month planning process to develop a new climate action goal and action plan. This plan builds upon Evanston’s success from the Climate Action Plan and the lessons learned throughout the process. Since transportation and energy are the two largest sources of community emissions, the Sustain Evanston working group focused on identifying strategies to address those sources of emissions. It was also identified that a public facing outreach campaign was integral in engaging the community to help support the actions needed to reach a new goal. To support the on-going work of Sustain Evanston, the City and volunteers created a new website to serve as a one-stop-resource for information related to climate change, energy and environmental sustainability. The new site is called “Evanston Green Buzz”, evanstongreenbuzz.org and includes a calendar, newsletter stories, and listing of all the groups in Sustain Evanston.
- On behalf of all the organizations and individuals who are part of Sustain Evanston, I am happy to present the Evanston Livability Plan as the community’s next climate action goal and plan. The Goal of the new plan is a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2016. This goal builds upon the City’s recent achievement of a 13% reduction in emissions. The 20% reduction also is in alignment with the STAR Community Rating long-term leadership goal of a 80% reduction in emissions by 2050. The Evanston Livability Plan has 5 main strategies that will help the community meet this bold but achievable goal. I will highlight each of them briefly. The tagline “Livability means” was selected by the working group because it speaks to a common goal of a healthy community and focuses on positive actions that benefit all of Evanston.
- A cornerstone of the initial Climate Action Plan accomplishment is the 100% green power for residents under electricity aggregation. The 20% goal calls for a continuation of the 100% green energy for aggregation. Last month, Evanston accomplished the first step for the 20% goal when City Council selected Homefield Energy for a 3-year electricity aggregation contract with 100% green energy. Residents have the ability to choose their own electricity supplier and at the start of the City’s aggregation program some customers were already locked-into a contract with other suppliers. To help achieve the goal, the plan calls for a modest increase in aggregation customers to maximize the residents that are getting green energy. Initial information from Homefiled Energy indicates that there are several thousand customers in Evanston right now that were not part of the program last year but are eligible and will be receiving information for the next 3-year program.
- The second strategy is to increase the number of businesses which secure green energy. Evanston already has approximately 900 businesses receiving Green Power from the electricity aggregation program and other businesses have independently done so as well. This strategy calls for working to promote green energy to mid-size businesses which may not already be receiving it. Some baseline work has already started on this strategy. During the selection of the aggregation supplier, the City asked if the suppliers would be willing to help promote a green energy program to Evanston’s businesses. All of the City’s bidders said they would be happy to partner with the City on such a program. Staff will be reaching out to Homefield Energy after our initial opt-out process is completed to talk about this in more detail. There are also many other suppliers that offer green energy to business customers that could be engaged on this topic. Overall, the plan calls for approximately 400 businesses to sing-up for green energy to meet the 20% goal.
- The third strategy focuses on improving the energy efficiency of Evanston’s building stock, both residential and commercial. This can be accomplished through a focused building retrofit program. In 2013, Evanston participated in a program with Nicor Gas where a targeted campaign was conducted to enroll residential and business customers in energy audits and retrofits. During a 90-day program, 191 homeowners and 59 small businesses had a home energy assessment and many of them completed the retrofit work. This challenge was a great learning experience and the working committee believes that a strategic program for building retrofits could deliver significant emissions reductions. The electricity and natural gas utilities that serve Evanston will be important alleys in implementing this strategy as they each have numerous existing programs that offer a variety of incentives to help homeowners and businesses complete energy retrofits. In addition, there are other specific partners that the City and community can engage. One example is Elevate Energy, which is partner company of the Center for Neighborhood Technology. Citizens’ for a Greener Evanston, one of our Sustain Evanston members, has been working with Elevate Energy to identify more specific ideas for achieving the building retrofit goals. CGE and Elevate Energy have actually signed a partnership agreement to help raise or secure funds to support focused outreach in Evanston to meet this strategy.
- The final strategy in the Livability Plan is to reduce transportation emission by improving Evanston’s transportation systems and encouraging Evanstonians to try different modes of travel that produce fewer GHG emissions. To put it into real numbers, the plan calls for a 1,400 reduction in vehicle miles traveled per household. Evanston already has a very high percentage of people who travel to work by walking, biking or taking transit. This multi-modal trend needs to expand to weekend and leisure trips, shopping and other in-town travel. Luckily Evanston already has a lot of the right infrastructure that we can build upon to meet this goal. Under this strategy, the City and community will work together to remove barriers and enhance existing transportation alternatives. The recent enhancements to the City’s bicycle lanes and parking infrastructure are a good example. There are other efforts underway to help enhance the intra-city use of Pace and CTA buses, including access to real-time information that can help make the bus network attractive for riders. A key element of the transportation strategy is a public outreach campaign that enlists the wider community to help support a healthy, livable community. The logos you have seen on the last several screen make up this “Livability Means” campaign. More specific details will be developed for each of the “abilities” and a website has already been developed with some of the tips and ideas to help to promote walking, biking, public transit, ride share, bike share and other alternate transportation methods. EvanstonLivability.org
- The city’s seven largest employers — City of Evanston, Northwestern University, NorthShore Evanston Hospital, Saint Francis Hospital, School District 65, School District 202, and Rotary International — are working collaboratively as the Evanston Green Ribbon Committee to advance strategies outlined in the Climate Action Plan. Good work has already been done and the plan calls for on-going support of these efforts. The City of Evanston has been a leader in emissions reductions for our operations, reducing by 32% or 7,923 metric tons of carbon emissions since 2005. The plan recommends working with the other six major employers to secure their commitment to reducing emissions by roughly 2%/year. This recommendation is the most straightforward to achieve because each organization has direct control over their own operations. The most significant opportunity here is related to employee workplace travel and commuting. We can expand on ideas like Bike to work week, bicycle fleets for employees and car-pooling.
- Engaging the community was essential in the implementation of Evanston’s first Climate Action Plan and it will be critical for this new plan as well. Sustain Evanston has already started to create action teams for community engagement and is using Evanston Green Buzz as a way to promote those opportunities. Community volunteers are poised to fully develop the community engagement campaign around ‘Livability means’ and is eager to promote the information at the community’s numerous events this summer. There will also be a dedicated team who will focus on outreach to our large employers and business community.
- The Evanston Livability Plan calls for a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2016. This is a bold goal but one that is achievable with everyone working together. In development of the plan and preparation for tonight, Sustain Evanston has sought the endorsements from the following organizations who are eager to work with the City and rest of the community to implement the plan. Staff and sustain Evanston seek City Council Adoption of the Evanston Liability Plan and it’s goal of a 20% reduction in emissions by 2016.
- Evanston is proud of our accomplishments. We’ve achieved our initial Climate Action Goal and are poised to set a new, bold goal and action plan. Our good community work has been recognized at the national level for Excellence in Sustainability. But we have more work to do and will continue to improve Evanston in our quest to be the “Most Livable City in America.” More information about these initiatives can be found on the City’s website at www.cityofevanston.org/sustainabilitiy