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 What are ideas you have on addressing climate change in our community? on Facebook Share What are ideas you have on addressing climate change in our community? on Twitter Share What are ideas you have on addressing climate change in our community? on Linkedin Email What are ideas you have on addressing climate change in our community? linkrazzoo2over 4 years ago
Require heat exchangers on exhaust vents
Salvage exhausted heat during cold weather, saving fuel or power.
0 comment4nshimeallover 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
0 comment3Mandiragabout 4 years agoRequire and help implement composting and recycling in all Redmond schools
0 comment0David Mortonover 4 years agoChoose Renewable Energy
Kicking the fossil fuel habit is critical to saving wildlife, slowing climate change, and protecting our lands and waters. Redmond residents currently have only one option for a supplier of electricity, Puget Sound Energy or PSE. Currently, PSE generates 56% of its power from the combustion of coal and natural gas. PSE shares ownership of Colstrip, a large coal-fired generating facility in eastern Montana, and they own several natural gas-fired power plants. Washington’s Clean Energy Transformation Act says all electric utilities must eliminate coal-fired electricity from their portfolios by 2025. So, PSE plans to sell its share of the coal-fired power plant. Washington state electric utilities must be 100% carbon-neutral by 2030. Between now and 2030, it appears that PSE intends to replace its coal-fired electricity with natural gas-fired electricity. Natural gas is primarily made of methane, and like oil and coal, is a fossil fuel. Though natural gas burns more cleanly than other fossil fuels, a significant amount of methane escapes into the atmosphere from natural gas wells and pipelines. Methane is a major greenhouse gas. So explore the options, tax credits, rebates, and incentives for installing rooftop solar panels or solar water heating in your home.
0 comment2David Mortonover 4 years agoCreate 300 single or 150 double bike racks in downtown.
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over 4 years agoRachel Molloyover 4 years agoIncrease Community Resiliency to Extreme Events
Getting a radio antenna on City Hall will help tie together City backup communications across town, which are currently piecemeal. This becomes a real challenge in an extreme snowfall event combined with power or cell tower outage. We've seen growing risk of summer heatwaves paired with wildfires. Working now on neighborhood fire preparedness and awareness is advised. A stitch in time, saves nine.
0 comment2David Mortonover 4 years agoBe water wise.
Consider xeriscaping your yard, a landscaping technique that uses native, drought-adapted plants that require less water and maintenance over time, and provide habitat and food for birds and bees.
0 comment0Devonover 4 years agoFood-Share Programs
Support food-share programs to help reduce food waste. Helps feed hungry people. Prevents the resources spent producing, packaging, and transporting the food from being wasted, and reduces the methane emissions during decomposition of unused food.
0 comment1Devonover 4 years agoPlant Trees
Some can even be low-hanging fruit trees, if you like! It's the simplest, most effective way to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
0 comment1David 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.
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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.