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About GreenPolicy360's Global Work

We are a 'Green Best Practices' resource hub to use community-by-community, day-by-day...

We are hosted on a MediaWiki platform. We are open-source and designed to be shareable.

GreenPolicy360's network has tens of millions of visits and millions more re-shares of pages, green success stories.

GreenPolicy360 supports extensive cooperative initiatives and country-by-country organizations with GreenLinks.


The story arc of GreenPolicy360, in its span and scope, tracks back to the late 1960s when Steve Schmidt began to work alongside a new Conressman from East Los Angeles, Rep. George E. Brown. Their work as detailed in GreenPolicy360 reveals a narrative and scientific journey into the origins, development, Earth Science and political activism that helped set in motion the modern environmental movement.

Today's challenges come into the light as a half century journey of key players, events, struggles, and decisions are revealed. Green politics and the modern environmental movement have progressed far from first-era Whole Earth images of the 1960s and a first "Earth Day" of 1970.

GreenPolicy360 and green, life affirming values are in for the long run.

The media is welcome to tell the GreenPolicy360 story as it was and is...

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GreenPolicy360

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Contents


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Flash

March 21, 2012 Headlines -- National News/US

Regulation proposed to Ban Pesticides as Bee Populations are Decimated "Bees pollinate about a third of US crops" -- http://huff.to/HP4fSq

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December 20, 2011 / Plastic Bags Banned in Seattle http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Plastic-bags-banned-in-Seattle-2412950.php

http://council.seattle.gov/tag/obrien/

Seattle Bag Ordinance - language Council Bill Number: 117345 http://clerk.seattle.gov/~scripts/nph-brs.exe?s1=117345&Sect4=AND&l=MAX&Sect1=IMAGE&Sect2=THESON&Sect3=PLURON&Sect5=LEGI2&Sect6=HITOFF&d=LEGA&p=1&u=http://clerk.seattle.gov/~public/legisearch.htm&r=1&f=G

AN ORDINANCE relating to the City of Seattle's solid waste system, regulating the distribution of single-use plastic and biodegradable carryout bags and requiring retail establishments to collect a pass-through charge from customers requesting recyclable paper carryout bags, and amending Seattle Municipal Code Chapter 21.36.

Date passed by Full Council: December 19, 2011 Vote: 9-0 Date of Mayor's signature:

Date introduced/referred to committee: November 21, 2011 Committee: Seattle Public Utilities and Neighborhoods Sponsor: O'BRIEN; CO-SPONSORS: BAGSHAW, BURGESS, CLARK, CONLIN, GODDEN, LICATA / Committee Recommendation: Pass as Amended / December 13, 2011

[City of Seattle Combined Legislative Records Search Information retrieved on December 20, 2011]

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- http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2017051358_plasticbag20m.html - http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/us/seattle-bans-plastic-bags-and-sets-a-5-cent-charge-for-paper.html - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57345382/seattle-bans-single-use-plastic-bags/ - http://www.zerowasteseattle.org/Home/seattle-bag-ordinance-faqs - http://plasticbaglaws.org/useful-links/

http://plasticbaglaws.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/leg_WA_state-bill_SB5780.pdf

[Nov 21, 2011 - Plastic-bag maker calls Seattle's proposed ban 'simplistic' http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2016821125_bagban22m.html] ___

http://www.seattlebagtax.org/bagordinance_8-14-2008.pdf Council Bill Number: 116251 Ordinance Number: 122752 AN ORDINANCE relating to the City of Seattle's solid waste system, establishing an advanced recovery fee (a green fee) for disposable shopping bags, providing a deduction for the green fee from the City's business license tax, creating two new positions, and amending Seattle Municipal Code Chapters 21.36, 21.40, and 5.45. Date introduced/referred: June 23, 2008 Date passed: July 28, 2008

City OKs 20-cent fee on plastic, paper bags http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/City-OKs-20-cent-fee-on-plastic-paper-bags-1280533.php

Seattle Rejects Its Plastic Bag Tax http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-08-19/green_sheet/30030221_1_bag-fee-seattle-voters-20-cent-fee

Seattle Bag Tax group http://www.seattlebagtax.org/

Seattle Referendum 1 http://greenbagcampaign.org/ http://greenbagcampaign.org/faq/

What is Referendum 1? In 2008, the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance creating a 20 cent fee on all disposable shopping bags at grocery, drug, and convenience stores. The purpose of the green fee is to discourage the use of disposable paper and plastic bags and encourage the use of reusables. This fee, modeled after a similar law in Ireland is expected to reduce bag use by up to 90%. Referendum 1 is about getting Seattleites to bring their own bag to the store in order to reduce waste, greenhouses gases, and environmental impacts. To do this, in 2008, the Seattle City Council passed an ordinance creating a 20 cent fee on all disposable shopping bags at grocery, drug, and convenience stores. The purpose of the green fee is to discourage the use of disposable paper and plastic bags and encourage the use of reusables. This fee, modeled after a similar law in Ireland is expected to reduce bag use by up to 90%.

What is going on in other US cities and states? San Francisco banned plastic bags in 2007 and was followed by other California cities such as Manhattan Beach, Palo Alto, and Malibu. Westport CT and thirty Alaskan villages have banned the bags. Edmonds, WA, is considering a bag ban this summer. Here is a partial list of other cities or states that are considering action on bags: Annapolis, MD , Austin, TX , Baltimore, MD , Berkeley, CA , Boston, MA , California, Chicago, IL , Connecticut, Encinitas, CA , Fairfax, CA , Hawaii County , Los Angeles County, CA, Madison, WI , Maine, Marshall County, IA , Maryland, Massachusetts, New Haven, CT, New York, NY, Oakland, CA, Philadelphia, PA, Plymouth, PA , San Jose, CA, Santa Cruz, CA , Santa Monica, CA , Texas, Virginia, and Washington D.C.


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Rainwater / Water Saving-Harvesting


California AB 275. The Rainwater Capture Act of 2011 makes it legal for all Californian's to capture rainwater, thus decreasing stormwater runoff, increasing groundwater infiltration...

More Info on AB 275: [To be rewritten and re-introduced]

Can rainwater capture help quench California's thirst?


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Our Purpose

GreenPolicy360 is an online database which lists local legislation that is congruent with Green values. Unlike numerous other web sites, we don't offer analysis and summaries of the legislation, but the wording of the legislation itself along with other pertinent information, including a link to the original source. In time, we hope to offer interesting background information for many of the entries listed in our database. There are literally hundreds of entries and the database is growing all the time!! See the Introduction Video.

GreenPolicy360 was developed for use in all communities, local, national, international. Whether you're a progressive elected official, an activist or a concerned citizen, GreenPolicy360 lets you know how other communities are dealing with many of the key public policy issues of yesterday, today and tomorrow. If you're working to craft similar legislation for your local community or you just want to get an idea of what might be possible, you can copy and paste the text from legislation from other locales and modify it to your own needs.

GreenPolicy360 is also an excellent reference source for students. Whether you're studying public policy administration, urban planning, or any of a wide array of topics, GreenPolicy360 will save you time and energy. Whatever country you are in, you can learn from best practices from your region, bioregion or similar regions. Rather than spend hours and hours trying to locate source material, you can find many models and examples of what you're looking for right here, right now.

How to Use this Site

Our team has worked very hard to make it easy for you to find what you're looking for! We've created a lot of different tools and avenues for you to choose from. These are outlined below.

You can also watch a tutorial in this movie.

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1) Browse our Master Index

The Master Index is broken down into categories and lists every single entry in GreenPolicy360.

2) Google Maps

Are you a visual person? Do you want to see what kinds of Green legislation and programs have been introduced and/or passed in your locale? You can search by Cities, Counties and Educational Institutions.

3) Browse/Search GreenPolicy360 through the use of a wide variety of categories

Have you stopped by to see if you can find a specific piece of local legislation/ordinances/initiatives or are you merely interested in discovering what might be possible to introduce in your community?

4) Searching the site on your own terms

Simply enter your search words in the box to the left and click on Policy Search. You can enter subject words, place names, anything you want, and in any combination you want. Please be aware that searches must be at least three characters long. The database will not search for two-character search strings.

5) A Note about the "background info" tab

As we continue to develop the various capabilities of GreenPolicy360, it is our intent to provide you with more background information in the form of summaries, analyses, news article, interviews and first person narratives.
To know whether or not any given entry possesses background information, all you need to identify is the color of the tab. If the tab has blue lettering, then the entry does include background information. If the tab has red lettering, it means that it does NOT include background information...yet.

More help or ideas

Is there a category that you think should be included in our database that isn't? If so, send your category suggestions to [1].

Consult the User's Guide for information on using this wiki software.

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