Author Archives: Thad Curtz

T3.__ EV Sales incentives Provide incentives to dealers or to salespeople for selling EVs. Connecticut has a successful program providing incentives to dealerships for EV sales; some of the money goes to salespeople, but not much. A recent Oregon bill, … Continue reading →

B2.13 Assess code compliance The City Energy Project provides a comprehensive method and materials that cities can use to assess the degree to which new buildings are actually complying with the code in place. A 2020 study for the Northwest … Continue reading →

Overview – County Forests The climate plan uses a value based on local projects, 10.18 tonnes CO2 per acre-yr averaged over the first thirty years of growth, as the basis for its estimates of potential sequestration from adding forested land … Continue reading →

B3: Reduce energy use across existing building types. B3.1 Energy education * Provide educational resources and technical assistance to industry professionals, building owners and managers on all aspects of energy efficient building design, retrofits, and operations for new and existing … Continue reading →

A4.1 Natural area preservation Identify and establish a range of diverse, stable, long­-term funding sources for the acquisition, restoration and preservation of prime natural areas. Conservation Areas REET According to the MRSC – Any county may impose an additional real … Continue reading →

A4.2 Conservation easements Identify or develop local funding sources for agricultural and forestry conservation easements. This could include creating a system for bundling small monetary contributions to invest in collective conservation easement or land purchases. Since 1987, the Capitol Land … Continue reading →

F1.2 Attractive descriptions Consumer research suggests that the descriptions of dishes in restaurants and food in stores can have pretty dramatic effects on how likely people are to choose them.

F1.1 Comparing food choices Food emissions by serving Food emissions by weight

This data comes from various tables in the 2017 Agricultural Census. There’s a wide range of estimates and claims about the potential for agricultural sequestration. In 2017 there were 1,200 farms in Thurston County, occupying 62,000 acres, or about 13.4% … Continue reading →

G4. _ Energy use set aside for investments in efficiency Set aside a fee on energy use or some of the savings from efficiency projects to create an internal funding mechanism to invest in energy and carbon-reduction. The King County … Continue reading →