Climate and Energy Action Plan (CEAP)

APPENDIX A. OPEN HOU SE STATION RESPONSES Ashland Climate and Energy Action Plan: Baseline Public Input Summary Page | 9 Appendix A . Open House Station Responses Station 1 . Ashland’s Carbon Footprint DID ANYTHING SURPRIS E YOU ABOUT ASHLAND’ S GREENHOUSE GAS INV ENTORY? Total responses = 19 (verbatim responses)  I see how much meat consumption adds to emissions  That it is so different to measure consumption  Meat? Oh no…. Oh dear !  Actually —that there was a category for the stuff we use and eat —let’s address that!  Yes (yikes!) Goods?!! And the fact that I need to reduce mine by 68% by 2020!  How much personal consumption contributes to emissions  The high percentage of residential goods  “Residential goods” make up such a huge portion of emissions  Residential food and goods is a huge percentage  10% decrease in emissions is AWESOME! Keep it up!  Goods consumption vs. Gas consumption  6% decrease in GHG over 5 years  How can marketing foo d products and packaging be modified to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions?  We need to work on several sectors not just energy use. Build smaller homes that are passive solar. Walk, consume less.  % g Emission due to meat eating  The size of the residentia l goods slice of the pie  Nope. I think we have an inefficient system and I’d like to see us better it  “Residential goods” - How to lower that??  How can we as a city, convince/educate us citizens to CONSUME less? This seems central.