| Create a network of protected bike paths throughout the entire city |
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| Continue enhancing bike lane network, to finally connect separated bike lane systems to each other across all five boroughs. |
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| Promote cycling by installing safe bike lanes |
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| Plant more trees |
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| Promote the use of solar energy using the latest technology on all high-rise buildings. |
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| Require all big buildings to make certain energy efficiency upgrades |
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| Utilize NYC Rooftops to install Solar PV panels |
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| Support community-led programs that promote energy efficiency upgrades for residential buildings |
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| Install clean energy production technologies on City-owned buildings |
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| Invest in multiple modes of transportation and provide both improved infrastructure and improved safety |
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| PLANT MORE TREES ON EVERY STREET |
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| Increase safety on all bike lanes: protected lanes with barriers between bikes and traffic, bike bridges over roadways, bike parking. |
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| Require all apartment buildings to replace drafty windows, compost, collect rainwater, insulate roofs, and install zone thermostats. |
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| Continue to increase bike lanes, BRT lanes and also widen sidewalks. |
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| Add improvements to the bike lanes in the inner city. This will encourage exercise and reduce city's carbon footprint. |
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| Preserve natural areas and woodlands as natural parks |
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| Develop financing programs to help low income communities take advantage of energy efficiency retrofit programs |
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| Support urban farmers and gardeners as producers, not just consumers |
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| Reduce City-wide greenhouse gas emissions 30% by 2030 |
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| Replace sodium vapor street lights with LED or other energy-saving lights. |
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| Provide funding to increase energy efficiency of buildings (PACE bonds/loans) creating green jobs, reducing emissions and utility bills. |
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| Get everyone recycling - make it easier, more accessible, more visible |
57
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| Implement a citywide bicycle-sharing system like the Velib in Paris or Capital Bikeshare in DC |
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| Promote Green Roofs adoption |
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| Create greater connection points for our transit system |
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| Improve schools in all districts so kids don't travel so far |
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| Build affordable housing that reflects all income levels |
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| Support and protect community gardens and create mechanisms to create new gardens and open space |
57
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| Reward employers (tax incentive), who have programs in place which encourage employees to commute using public transport/bikes/walking. |
57
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| Mandate a certain amount of greenspace per X number of houses/development |
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| Require separate food disposal and require businesses that sell food to have a plan to distribute their excess food to the community |
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| Provide more commuter rail access to Manhattan |
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| Create spaces beyond parks for leisure that is more dynamic and usable by a wide range of people |
56
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| Actually finishing their bike-lane master plan... |
56
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| Plug ships into electricity grid so they don't idle in port - reducing emissions equivalent to 12000 cars per ship. |
56
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| Support urban farming |
56
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| Anytime a street tree dies or is removed, it should be automatically replaced with a new sapling. |
56
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| Introduce "Octopus" style Metrocards that work on MTA bus and subway, LIRR, MTA-North, bike share. |
56
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| Re-purpose underutilized retail areas as parks |
56
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| Find ways to promote the use of less packaging for takeout food |
56
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| Provide better transit service outside of Manhattan |
56
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| Keep NYC's drinking water clean by banning fracking in NYC's watershed. |
56
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| Develop plans to increase the number of school children who walk or bike to school. |
56
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| Install effective trash receptacles on public housing super blocks to eliminate dumping on the sidewalks. |
56
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| Protect tidal wetlands/freshwater wetlands |
56
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| Allow access to Drinking Water Sampling Stations to let people refill reusable bottles. |
56
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| Provide bus service to all school children |
56
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| A train line that entirely connects South Brooklyn to Queens, eliminating the need to go through Manhattan. |
55
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| Develop/ expand a protected cycling network, enforce the 30 mph speed limit for cars and add more bike racks. |
55
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| ban single serve plastic water bottles, replace with free, clean public sources |
55
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| Include not only gardening but cooking in every school's curriculum, K - 12, as part of food science nutrition sustainability education. |
55
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| Car-free Central and Prospect Parks. |
55
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| Limit the percentage of warehouses and factories that pollute the air quality of poor communities |
55
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| Promote small residential closed-loop geothermal systems for heating and cooling using pilot programs, subsidies, incentives, etc. |
55
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| Stop idling ships berthed in NY by plugging them into shore power, allowing them to turn off their polluting extra dirty diesel engines. |
55
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| Make recycling bins available everywhere including subway stations and street corners. Have volunteers train citizens on public sorting. |
55
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| Convert 10% of all roofs to Cool Roofs |
55
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| Educate children about the environment |
55
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| Create more planted traffic islands on wide roads to reduce heat and pollution. |
55
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| Add an entirely new subway line to an underserved, car-dependent area such as Northern Queens to 125th St. in Manhattan. |
54
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| Promote the adoption of hybrid taxi cabs |
54
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| Grow Really Big Beautiful Street Trees to provide shady walks.to open space, reduce crime, storm water run off and heat island effect. |
54
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| More bike lane infrastructure in South Brooklyn. |
54
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| Make all Metro North and LIRR trains bicycle accessible. |
54
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| Get real kitchens, real cooks, and real food in public schools. Use locally-sourced food. |
54
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| Standardize different energy efficiency standards to minimize confusion |
54
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| Improve bus service with fewer stops, faster boarding and dedicated lanes |
54
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| Add collection services for textiles and reusable items (clothing, toys, sports equipment) that enter waste stream unnecessarily. |
54
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| Build rail links to LGA and Newark airports from Manhattan |
54
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| Develop and promote the use of low-carbon building materials via preferred lists, incentives, and subsidies. |
54
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| Create a challenge grant so communities can compete for money to carry out green projects |
54
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| Teach kids about green issues as part of school curriculum |
54
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| Make sure that there are bike racks installed at or near all public schools and libraries. |
54
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| Automatically replace street trees that have died or were removed. |
54
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| Discourage people from driving into the city and circling for parking by charging market rates for on-street parking. |
54
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| Implement congestion pricing with goal of banning private autos from Manhattan by 2030 (handicap plates excepted). |
54
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| Revise green roof tax abatement to promote gardening in green roofs |
54
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| Create or enhance public plazas in every community |
54
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| Redevelop a system of NYC public markets that encourage local entrepreneurs to sell produce at a scale that earns a living wage. |
54
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| Provide long-term leases for organic farms in unused public spaces, a garden at every public school and public housing development |
54
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| Create Master Plan for better rail and bus links to major airports. |
54
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| Protect Nature in NY by ensuring appropriate use of wild areas in NYC parks |
54
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| Facilitate greater access to rooftops for tenants' container gardening. |
53
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| Rather than expanding the subway, bring true BRT to NYC. It's faster to build and about 10% of the price. |
53
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| Reserve a lane for bus rapid transit on all tunnels and bridges going to Manhattan |
53
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| Cut bureaucratic red tape for innovative, sustainability-oriented projects (and leave it in place for everything else). |
53
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| Convert 5% of public park areas into community gardens. |
53
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| Maintain working waterfront so goods and people can be moved on water, not on our roadways |
53
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| Improve and modernize the city's food distribution system. |
53
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| Start community composting centers at parks all over the City |
53
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| Car-free Central and Prospect Parks. |
53
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| Use city's public education institutions to research/develop/implement solar powered streetlamps and city night lights(sports fields |
53
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| Provide affordable housing to every NYer. Provide safe, low-cost housing to the working poor. |
53
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| Create secure bicycle parking requirements for new multi-family housing developments |
53
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| Implement 100% biodiesel fuel for NYC’s school bus fleet. |
53
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| Link cul de sacs and dead ends with bike and pedestrian paths |
53
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| Use a small tax on gas, oil, and coal usage to finance energy-efficient retrofits |
53
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| Develop more bus-only lanes for new Select Bus Service lines |
53
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| Focus on illegal dumping sites (i.e. empty lots) |
52
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| Develop underused lands to knit neighborhoods together |
52
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| Promote affordable housing for middle-class families to keep them in NYC. |
52
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| Make protecting NYC's biodiversity a key part of PlaNYC. |
52
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| Provide more enforcement of recycling in NYC commercial and residential buildings |
52
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| Integrate sustainability into the Department of Education curriculum |
52
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| Have taxi parking in strategic places to avoid taxis circling around. Would reduce emissions and danger when pulling over for passengers. |
52
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| Build a biomass to energy pilot plant along with system of collecting biowaste for the project. |
52
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| Improve bus service between LaGuardia Airport and Manhattan. |
52
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| Focus on planting street trees before putting them in existing green space |
52
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| More opportunities for the public to help clean and revitalize public parks. |
52
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| Composting! Provide municipal support for composting!! |
52
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| Reduce entry of large trucks in the city center. Find ways to encourage use of smaller vans and lighter vehicles. |
52
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| Reduce building emissions through small steps |
52
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| Promote alternative fueling infrastructure (biofuels, electric, etc.) for private vehicles using pilot programs, subsidies, incentives, etc. |
52
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| Transition buildings from buring number 4 and number 6 oil to clean burning natural gas. |
52
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| Put bike racks on buses |
52
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| Create a toolkit for community groups to use for carrying out green projects in their community |
52
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| Add bike/pedestrian path to Verrazano Bridge |
52
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| Build a crosstown subway from upper Man through the BX to Queens (LaG Apt) and on through Queens Center to JFK. |
52
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| Idle-Free NYC should apply to ships too. Cruise and container ships could plug into shore power and eliminate carcinogenic diesel emissions. |
52
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| Educate homeowners about practical things they can do to help sustain our city |
52
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| Increase targeted tree plantings in neighborhoods with high asthma rates |
52
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| Hold a contest to design an NYC reusable (non-disposable) to-go container accepted at all chain and independent eateries. |
51
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| Limit truck traffic through environmentally burdened communities by imposing a GPS-based mileage charge. |
51
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| Implement a citywide curbside compost collection program |
51
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| Establish a brownfield revolving fund to systematically develop or restore to wild 50% of all brownfields and parking lots |
51
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| Reduce the fleet of government vehicles by 50% starting at the top |
51
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| Require that public schools reduce processed foods in cafeterias and cook meals from scratch and get ingredients from local sources |
51
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| Re-engineer traffic signals so the movement of pedestrians - not automobiles - is prioritized. |
51
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| Put valves on all radiators in the city so people can lower their heat. |
51
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| Engage the public in tree maintenance and stewardship |
51
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| Make bicycle safety part of the test to get your driver's license. |
51
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| Create more year-round Greenmarkets in under-served communities. |
51
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| Increase educational outreach on energy efficiency incentives |
51
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| The city should include #5 plastics in its recycling program. |
51
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| Enhance biking opportunities in the Staten Island Greenbelt |
51
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| Dedicate 10% of the City’s energy bill towards increasing the efficiency of City-owned buildings |
51
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| Couple brownfield redevelopment incentives with requirements to build affordable housing |
51
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| More public restrooms! Make them energy efficient with composting toilets. |
51
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| Increase bus frequency, particularly during off-peak times |
51
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| Shops should stop giving out shopping bags automatically. Require customers to ask for a bag and pay a small fee for each one they take. |
51
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| To create a greener NYC, ban plastic bags. |
51
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| Compost instead of Sewers. |
50
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| Install bike racks on Metro North and LIRR trains. |
50
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| Create a wind farm in Fresh Kills on Staten Island to provide "green" electricity for residential areas. |
50
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| Give us some form of off-peak residential electricity pricing. |
50
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| Create educational laboratories at City University colleges to develop models of sustainable development and test new ideas. |
50
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| Install hydro-electric generation at all high volume storm and sanitary sewer drops |
50
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| Make all subway stations wheelchair accessible. |
50
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| Leverage commuter rail links to make food delivieries from nearby farms during off peak hours |
50
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| Provide more education on recycling in schools through after hour and after school programs |
50
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| Provide more public garbage cans |
50
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| Promote meaningful ongoing community involvement in PlaNYC |
50
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| Expand the adopt-a-bodega program to promote nutrition in low-income neighborhoods |
50
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| Promote the use of cleaner-burning heating fuels |
50
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| Make ferries accept metrocards |
50
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| Citywide composting: include composting of human waste |
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| Create a database of all vacant land and make it available to the public |
49
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| Limit the wattage and brightness of outdoor lighting on residential streets. |
49
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| Promote Cool Roofs adoption |
49
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| Implement 100% biodiesel fuel for NYC’s sanitation fleet. |
49
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| Put a price on off-street parking, and use the revenue for transit improvements. |
49
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| Make more bike lanes in Bed Stuy |
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| Incrementally raise gasoline tax 1 cent in the 1st year, 2 cents in the 2nd year ... to fully fund the transit system. |
49
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| Interweave food sustainability throughout the other areas of the plan |
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| Eliminate free parking, send proceeds to transit and community beautification |
49
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| Acquire more open space/wetlands |
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| Congestion management. If congestion pricing can't pass, then try something else like alternating odd-even days. |
48
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| Massively expand the subway system by adding a 10th Avenue line, a crosstown line at 86th St., a 3rd Avenue line in the Bronx... |
48
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| Increase open space through the acquisition and transfer of properties |
48
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| Establish a New York City Energy Planning Board |
48
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| Get Bus Lanes on Broadway |
48
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| An empty, vacant lot on the corner of William and Beekman Streets in Lower Manhattan should be turned into a community garden. |
48
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| Require building owners to install outdoor lighting that directs light down onto the street and not up into the sky or apartment windows. |
48
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| Strictly enforce laws that prohibit automobile engine idling. Instruct police not to keep their vehicles' engines idling. |
48
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| Eliminate one parking spot per block and change it to secure bike parking. |
48
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| Implement congestion pricing in lower Manhattan |
48
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| Hail a yellow cab by phone, allowing them to park while waiting for fares, instead of driving up and down streets. |
48
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| Promote use of native species by using at least 25% natives in city-landscaping. |
48
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| Increase local food procurement by partnering Dept of Edu |
48
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| Engage all New Yorkers in public outreach and engagement efforts |
48
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| Devise a system of weight-based fees for waste disposal so persons who throw more away pay higher fees. |
48
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| Promote affordable housing specifically for young professionals |
48
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| Make NYCHA buildings top priority to receive green and cool roofs |
48
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| Commission a study of local air quality patterns so we can understand the impacts things like traffic have on our health |
48
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| Promote rent-to-own policies |
47
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| Raise awareness about green living |
47
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| Make delayed green lights for motorists so pedestrians can cross safely |
47
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| Educate homeowners about being green |
47
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| Educate homeowners/landlords/tenants on steps that can be taken to improve air quality |
47
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| Open schoolyards across the city as public playgrounds |
47
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| Eliminate free street parking as a form of congestion pricing. |
47
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| Provide incentives to encourage the development of smaller units, including single room occupancy units, to reduce resource use from housing |
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| Remove the fences and barriers that prevent people from accessing lawns and green spaces on public housing properties. |
46
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| Expand the "Green Streets" program on Staten Island by building planted traffic islands and malls on wide boulevards. |
46
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| Build Bus Garages for private commuter and tour and charter buses to reduce idling |
46
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| More litter enforcement |
46
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| Explicitly discuss and focus on health outcomes |
46
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| Reduce the amount of parking built into new developments |
46
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| Get police out of cars and onto bikes. |
46
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| End the practice of police using public sidewalks near station houses as their private parking lots. |
46
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| Export waste by ferry and rail instead of trucks |
46
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| Provide more resources for the dissemination of information to the community |
45
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| Expand ferry service |
45
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| Eliminate parking minimums for new developments. Institute parking maximums instead. |
45
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| Make NYC with Play Streets a regular thing. |
45
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| Converting more neighborhoods in the outer boroughs to lower density zoning such as R1, R1-2, R2. to preserve their sub-urban character. |
45
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| Install and maintain drinking-water fountains on busy city streets. |
45
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| Increase access to EBT at farmers markets |
45
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| Phase-in a carbon footprint labeling system for products sold in NYC. |
45
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| Charge the market rate for on street parking. |
45
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| Recycle metrocards |
45
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| Phase out heating oil #6 |
45
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| Leverage corporate sponsorship to pay for after school green educational opportunities |
45
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| Re-engineer streets so that the default speed limit can be reduced from 30mph to 20mph. |
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| Enforce low density zoning laws and do Not grant variances that are contrary to these protective laws. |
44
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| Increase parking tax as means of congestion pricing. |
44
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| Increase frequency of and locations for ferry service |
44
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| Focus on the condition of elderly residents |
44
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| Identify explicitly those brownfields that are city-owned versus privately owned |
44
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| Reduce the number of automobile trips by helping Albany pass a bill that would charge $10 for every vehicle traveling south of 110th street. |
44
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| In lower-density areas, consolidate mail delivery at intersections rather than door-to-door to eliminate truck idling |
44
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| Reduce citywide speed limit from 30MPH to 20MPH to make it safer for pedestrians and cyclists. |
44
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| Increase parking meter fees as a means of congestion reduction. |
44
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| Require utility companies to place utility lines underground in the five boroughs. |
44
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| Re-open the North Shore Rail |
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| Leverage City media resources better in an effort to spread the message about green living |
43
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| Commission a study of the environmental impacts of New York City food consumption |
43
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| Teach new and potential homeowners about the responsibilities of homeownership |
43
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| Install new lighting at public fields to make them usable for more hours of the day |
43
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| Taxi stands/areas in busy areas so both customers and taxi drivers know where to go. Sudden pickups |
43
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| Protect Fresh Kills from development. Map it as parkland! |
43
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| Increase mandated biodiesel portion of heating oils from 2% to 10%. |
43
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| Bring school children to botanical gardens, the NYC waterfront, and the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. |
43
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| Have police patrol bike lanes on bikes |
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| Remove all required parking minima from the zoning. |
43
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| Enage local bodegas into the food system more |
43
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| Demap the roadways within parks |
43
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| Subsidize organic vegan farming |
43
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| Get Greenmarkets to accept credit and debit cards as payment. |
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| On Staten Island, increase the number of low density zoning areas and protect and preserve the existing ones |
42
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| Increase public access to Staten Island waterfront |
42
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| Increase the frequency of community meetings on sustainability |
42
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| Improve taxi service outside Manhattan |
42
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| Eliminate free parking at public housing. Convert parking lots to green spaces. |
42
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| Put count down clocks on crosswalk signs |
42
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| Require restaurants to only fill water glasses when requested by customers. |
41
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| Mandate that all buildings must be benchmarked, regardless of their square footage |
41
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| 1. Meat free Monday 2.Restaurant serve food of low carbon footprint 3.Subsidize organic vegan farming 4.High tax on meat |
41
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| mandatory that a restaurant to serve food of low-carbon footprint or charge for a carbon tax |
41
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| Police should do a better job of obeying and enforcing existing laws against idling cars. |
41
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| Install speeding cameras in areas of Staten Island where speeding and severe crashes are prevalent. |
41
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| Ensure beaches are open to all New Yorkers |
41
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| Replace some avenues with moving sidewalks. |
40
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| Play Streets should have a city agency in charge mandating their occurrence citywide. |
40
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| Protect and preserve Staten Island's unique sub-urban |
40
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| BUS GARAGE FOR TOUR AND CHARTER BUSES |
40
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| Institute term limits on community board members. |
39
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| Focus on new moms since they should be particularly interested/invested in improving indoor air quality for their kids |
39
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| Franchise MTA bus routes to generate revenue |
39
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| Document and post ideas from PlaNYC Community Conversation workshops |
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| Acquire Pouch Camp within the Gateway National Parks so it will be protected and preserved in perpetuity. |
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| On Staten Island, have Gateway National Parks acqire the unique "Pouch Camp acreage" so it may be preserved in perpetuity. |
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| Form street teams that can go out and educate every homeowner |
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| Becoming vegan reduces 80% of the cause to global warming, which will make a greener NYC! More than public transportation and study can! |
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| Publicize a document discussing the outcome of the PlaNYC Community Conversations |
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| Save Pouch Camp on Staten Island |
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| Create a book club that promotes reading books on the subject of sustainability |
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| mandatory meat-free Monday |
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