Environmental Sustainability
The Redmond City Council unanimously adopted the Environmental Sustainability Action Plan on September 15, 2020, and now staff are actively implementing the Plan. Curious how you can follow along or engage?
- Subscribe to our email list so you'll be notified of our updates
- Join our Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee meetings - held on the fourth Thursday, every other month
- Join the Redmond Climate Action Challenge and find ways you can reduce your environmental impact
The Redmond City Council unanimously adopted the Environmental Sustainability Action Plan on September 15, 2020, and now staff are actively implementing the Plan. Curious how you can follow along or engage?
- Subscribe to our email list so you'll be notified of our updates
- Join our Environmental Sustainability Advisory Committee meetings - held on the fourth Thursday, every other month
- Join the Redmond Climate Action Challenge and find ways you can reduce your environmental impact
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Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Linkedin Email this linkDavid Mortonabout 4 years ago
Create 300 single or 150 double bike racks in downtown.
0 comment1bardyover 3 years agoMandate solar panels on apartment/condominium complexes
Make solar panels a requirement for new and existing apartment and condominium complexes in downtown Redmond.
0 comment0Ryan Gachetabout 4 years agoImproved bus and transit for all residents
I am a frequent transit rider for my job in Seattle, but I find it frustrating that our transit system under serves our key residential areas forcing drivers park at the transit centers. I would rather take a bus from my home to the transit center, but the schedule/frequency of transit into the residential areas of Redmond make this very difficult. Is there a way to increase transit to Union Hill, Education Hill, etc.?
0 comment1David Mortonover 4 years agoDrive less, Drive green.
Changing your driving habits can dramatically reduce your carbon footprint. Walk, bike, carpool or use public transportation whenever possible. Combine errands to make fewer trips. Participate in, or start, car-free days in your community. Keep your car tuned up and your tires inflated. Tune-ups can increase fuel efficiency by 40%, and keeping your tires inflated decreases gas use by 2%.
0 comment2nshimeallover 4 years agoInstall permanent water refill stations around Redmond public areas.
Encourages use of reusable water bottles (and will be needed when single use plastic bottles are banned); drinking fountain, bottle refilling, and pet watering bowl in one. See examples at https://www.mackay.qld.gov.au/residents/services/water/water_refill_stations
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Share some ideas you have for low-hanging fruit in sustainability.
over 4 years agoDavid Mortonover 4 years agoLawn mower and leaf blower electrification
Implement a gasoline lawn mower and leaf blower exchange program. Gas- and diesel-powered chainsaws, lawn mowers, leaf blowers and hedge trimmers produce hazardous emissions, such as benzene and butadiene, that expose operators and residents to increased cancer risks, air toxics, carbon monoxide and microscopic particles that can become lodged deep in the lungs. Can an ordinance be adopted to end the use of gas-powered lawn mowers and leaf blowers in Redmond? By 2020, smog-forming volatile organic compound emissions from lawn equipment engines are expected to exceed those from cars. Zero-emission technology will help turn the tide against air pollution and improve the quality of life for people in Redmond. Redmond could make incentive funds available to help commercial gardeners and landscapers, schools, and non-profit organizations buy new zero-emission, battery-electric commercial-grade lawn and garden equipment and scrap and replace their old, polluting gasoline- or diesel-powered equipment. Participants could receive up to 60% off the purchase price for new equipment.
0 comment0Rachel Molloyover 4 years agoCanvas Areas Vulnerable to Heavy Rainfalls / Microbursts and Mitigate the Risk
When 5-15" of rain falls in a very short period of time, low lying areas or places with poor drainage and storage mitigation ponds, are vulnerable to flooding. Let's make sure we know where our areas of risk are planned for. And let's make sure we can communicate with all the communities/languages in Redmond.
0 comment2David Mortonover 4 years agoGeothermal
Redmond already has 4 schools which have or will have geothermal heating systems (Ella Baker Elementary, Clara Barton Elementary, Timberline Middle, and Redmond High). These geothermal heating systems use electric heat pumps to extract heat from water circulating through numerous deep wells. This is a very efficient way to heat buildings, using the heat of the Earth and using very little electricity. More buildings in Redmond could be using geothermal heating. A particularly environmentally sustainable way to heat a couple of hundred buildings is district heating combined with geothermal and heat pumps.
0 comment3David Mortonover 4 years agoBoycott products that endanger wildlife.
Some products harm endangered species by threatening their habitat. To avoid endangerment of wildlife, look for products made from sustainable materials like bamboo, and dine at restaurants that refuse to serve endangered species like bluefin tuna.
0 comment0David Mortonover 4 years agoReforestation / Afforestation
Reforestation is the restoration of forests in areas where forests were removed or destroyed less than 50 years ago. Afforestation is creating new forests in areas that have been treeless for at least 50 years, such as pasture and agricultural lands. I have volunteered to participate in a number of Green Redmond restoration events, removing aggressive invasive weeds, planting native trees and shrubs, mulching, and helping to ensure that Redmond’s natural areas stay healthy. As the name implies, reforestation attempts to undo the damaging effects of deforestation, which, along with the burning of fossils fuels, are the 2 main causes of climate change. I could go into a long list of the benefits of trees, but suffice it to say that trees contribute greatly to a sustainable environment. Redmond has sufficient land area for the City to designate a couple hundred more acres for increasing the tree canopy.
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Who's Listening
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Environmental Sustainability Program Manager
Email jlybeck@redmond.gov
Document Library
- 2022 Redmond Climate Vulnerability Assessment
- City of Redmond Operations Zero Carbon Strategy - Oct 2021.pdf (865 KB) (pdf)
- Redmond ESAP with appendices_adopted Sept 2020.pdf (21.1 MB) (pdf)
- Redmond Climate Emergency Declaration-October 2020 (81.9 KB) (pdf)
- Slide Deck_Redmond Climate and Sustainability Update_11122020.pdf (338 KB) (pdf)
- Plan Adoption - Council Presentations
- Workshop Summary
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Project Timeline
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Phase I
Environmental Sustainability has finished this stageCommunity Visioning-This phase includes foundation building, data inventory, visioning workshop and survey.
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Phase II
Environmental Sustainability has finished this stageStrategy Identification – This phase includes identifying strategies based on community vision, actions workshop and survey.
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Phase III
Environmental Sustainability has finished this stageStrategy Refinement – This phase includes multi-criteria, economic, and quantitative analysis as well as final action and implementation planning workshop.
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Phase IV
Environmental Sustainability has finished this stageFinal Plan Review – This Phase includes an Online Open House to get feedback on the draft plan and presentation of the draft plan to Council.
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Implementation
Environmental Sustainability is currently at this stageImplementation of adopted Environmental Sustainability Action Plan, including annual progress update to Council and the public.