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Launch the successful Park's Department anti-idling campaign at the Seattle Department of Transportation. <br />Healthy Habitat & Clean Water <br />^ Reduce water use by residential and commercial customers by 1 % through efficiency improvements <br />^ Recruit 5,000+ customers to install high-efficiency clothes washers. <br />^ Install 1,500 linear feet of bioswales at various sites to filter rainwater through vegetated drainage <br />depressions rather than into storm drains.. <br />^ Purchase about 100_ acres of land along the Skagit River and its tributaries to protect habitat for salmon <br />and bull trout. <br />Sustainable Forests <br />^ Restore the City's forested Park land through the Green Seattle Partnership between the City and the <br />Cascade Land Conservancy <br />^ Start restoration process on 60 acres of forest land in 10 parks <br />^ Develop urban forest restoration best practices guide to assist community stakeholders, City staff and <br />contractors in effective restoration efforts. <br />^ Implement a landscape, horticulture and forestry best practices training and certification program in the <br />Parks Department. <br />^ Reduce the City's copier and printer paperuse by 15% by the end of 2005 and 30% by the end of 2006 <br />Healthy & Connected Neighborhoods <br />^ Create Urban Sustainability Guidelines identifying development goals and corresponding planning and <br />design objectives to create a more livable city. <br />^ Fund community-based environmental projects, especially in traditionally underserved parts of the City <br />through programs such as the Neighborhood Matching Fund. " <br />^ Add four new parks to the Pesticide Free Parks Program. <br />^ Encourage more people in Seattle to take care of the environment through amulti-media campaign <br />including a PBS documentary, community action guide, website and speaker series. <br />^ Launch a compostable food scraps recycling program for businesses <br />^ Provide recycling collection in all Park buildings and pilot test recycling collection in limited outdoor park <br />locations. <br />CITY OF SANTA CRUZ, CALIFORNIA <br />There are many Environmental Programs throughout the City of Santa Cruz. The city-wide programs include <br />Water, Stormwater, Recycling, Clean Ocean Businesses and Integrated Pest Management Program to name a <br />few. <br />Some of the programs under each Environmental Program area are as follows: <br />Water <br />^ Water Conservation Program <br />^ Watershed Protection Program <br />Stormwater <br />^ Best Management Practices -Businesses & Retailers <br />^ Best Management Practices for Construction Work <br />Recycling <br />^ Curbside Greencycle <br />^ Dropoff Greencycle <br />^ Compost Bin Program <br />