ACTIONS to lower emissions, and meet Marlboro Mayor Hornik’s pledge on Climatemayors.org: adopt spirit and goals of the Paris Agreement: http://climatemayors.org/get-involved/city-officials

Following is verbatim from Climatemayors.org  (BOLD CAPS ARE STEVE'S COMMENTS)

“Climate Mayors (aka the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda) is a Mayor-to-Mayor network of US Mayors collaborating on climate. There are no binding commitments as a Climate Mayors members, only that cities are pursuing actions to achieve an emissions reduction target through:

 

TONIGHT'S TALK:

1. provide a quick baseline:  rising global temperatures to last ice age and 2017 NASA data demands global emissions be quickly reduced to “net zero”

2. Marlboro has Bronze certification (225 points) ; Propose a focus on energy actions to reach Silver (125 more points) and “Gold Star in Energy”

 

Actions come from SustainableJersey.com and the best from other sources (the best NJ cities, and the book “Drawdown”)

1. Sustainable Jersey “Gold Star Standards” – then click “Energy” http://www.sustainablejersey.com/actions-certification/

2. Many/most energy actions:: : http://climate.smiller.org/table-of-climate-actions-sorted-public-v3-4.xls .. (local file)
Special Report: “Renewable Government Energy Aggregation” (Community Choice)