Community Activation

Community Activation

The ThriveTogether Sustainability Playbook for Greater Cincinnati features a series of Implementation Measures for the community called the Priority Climate Action Plan.

This table of strategies was compiled from the direct input of shareholders in the region, gathered primarily on the Go Vocal platform.

With a diverse and varied region, robust public engagement is the central mechanism that formulates the planning and implementation process.

Proposed Implementation Measures for Community Activation from the Priority Climate Action Plan include:

1. Use incentives to grow transit ridership to improve efficiency and reduce emissions
2. Provide improvements that make transit easier and more attractive to use, including language services for non-english speakers.
3. Support ongoing intra/interstate Amtrak projects. Develop a proposal for a regional system.
4. Develop community solar to support local nonprofits and community-based groups.
5. Encourage community aggregation programs that include or are exclusively renewable energy.
6. Increase the region's low and moderate income households' access to inexpensive renewable energy.
7. Create a fiscally-positive revolving loan fund or grant opportunity to finance energy-efficient and/or solar improvements for local and county public entities (governments, schools, libraries, park districts, etc.) in the region.
8. Help connect non-profit organizations with funding for energy efficiency and solar.
9. Provide incentives to replace inefficient household appliances and HVAC equipment with new electric-based equipment
10. Hold events that build awareness and focus energy around reducing GHG emissions in the region
11. Leverage existing coalitions (WeThrive, LiveWell) as community mobilizers (health in all policies).
12. Provide access to recycling service / containers at multi-family buildings
13. Counties should continue to provide regular household recycling events

Please share your insights on our existing implementation measures or submit new ideas below on what can be done to improve Community Activation in your community.