Thank you to those who attended the community dinner for generating 102 positive climate future visions.
The question posed to the group: What will the world look like to you “if we get it (climate) right? Participants were encouraged to dream big!
Do you have a vision to add to this list? Send your ideas to deanecoady@gmail.com or cspitzer@gmail.com – organizers of the program.
1.Windmill on top of First Parish Tower
2.Pocket forests in our front + back yards
3.Believe you have enough
4.Policy makers consulting and trusting environmental scientists (forests, biologists, etc.)
5.More Bike friendly roads
6. Take care to ensure pure unpolluted water and stop wasting water
7. Teach farmers sustainable farming techniques and incentivize this and eliminate unsustainable big Ag
8.solar panels above parking lots
9. Compostable Diapers
10.deep well geothermal steam to power electricity plants
11. A more snowy and white Christmas
12.vertical cities – high rises with apartments, schools, stores, gyms, workspaces, etc.
13. Having the community be involved in changes -reasons + places to gather
14. protections for pure water
15. Plastic eating organisms
16. Re-usable non-plastic containers
17. Wild Farming
18.trees on private property are considered public/community trees
19. Better public transportation in Boston
20. No more water battles/bottles
21. A non-electric way of supporting A.I
22.fostering connection, curiosity, and play in nature for kids
23. All business travel is cancelled-all will be done online
24.find ways to bring down costs for supporting local foods
25. No chemicals on food
26.Regenerative farming will be the future
27.Reduce the amount of mown lawns
28.more mixed use developments with walkable, bikeable, neighborhoods
29.Domino effects of planting vegetation; make it mandatory -sycamore trees, etc.
30.Smarter parking
31. plastic use stops
32. deforestation stops
33. Proper legislation to be put in place to take care of environment
34. No “spring yard cleanups” until after the pollinators have what they need; lots of natural lawns and gardens
35. the Muddy River water will be clean enough to drink
36. Technology is made of 100% renewable, compostable, edible materials
37. We will be happy to adapt to reducing our demands on the planet, rather than unhappy. A new vision of what we like.
38. Demonize private jets “nicely”
39. A future with better opportunities
40. A future with cleaner and renewable energy sources
41. More forests
42. No endangered animals
43. Permeable roads, side walks, driveways, parking lots, etc. to soak the rain water into the ground
44.Car free school zones, only bike, walk and roll to school
45.Break up all the asphalt + parking lots + plant lots of trees in the neighborhoods that have few trees.
46.More vegans and vegetarians
47.Solar panels in our agricultural fields.
48.Pay people to walk
49.What if we all stop buying? No more furniture, get it from thrift. No more junk, less stuff
50.All cars will be electric
51. Every new building/construction does not rely on fossil fuels
52. Something new to replace plastic
53. Al solutions to mitigating climate change and supporting them globally
54. Geothermal will be more prevalent than gas!
55. Restructure our economy in a way that values life and care
56. There will be more use of passive solar architectural design
57. Tramways over route 9 for commuters and gardens for food, pollinators, etc. along the route
58. Invent a packing material that’s as useful as plastic but biodegradable
59. Put consumerism in perspective
60. Lots of tree houses
61. Conservation will be followed by all; imagine the impact if everyone reduced their energy consumption by just 1%
62. White Christmas again
63. Generators in First Parish basement to store energy for the church and neighborhood- a money maker!
64. Miyawaki Forest on First Parish grounds
65. Schools make solutions for climate change an integral part of curriculum
66. Encourage more veggie gardens + pollinator gardens- fewer lawns
67.Gardens in unused public spaces
68.Move towards a quality/usefulness based economy
69.Get away from a growth based economy
70.More energy sidewalks
71. Solutions in public places where people sit on stationary bikes and pedal so they meet + chat. The power would go into a generator for our energy needs; same with children’s playgrounds
72. Everyone reduces their consumption and shares with each other.
73. A diversity of fuel sources not just one
74. A more fair and equitable economic system not motivated by profit or greed
75. No more polluting smoke from forest fires in Canada
76.A future with a better governance
77.A future where everyone loves one another
78.A future where all human races can unite and embrace diversity
79.A future with no dictatorial leadership but rather democratic
80.A future where the news groups, broadcasters and media services are assertive in their role to provide real, practical and blunt information which is not filtered in any way by political leaders.
81. Thermo-electric lets us take heat out of pavements and add to the energy grid
82. We eat food that is produced locally by family farms and coops who pay their workers a living wage
83. There are protein bars made from beans to taste like brownies
84. Broad based support for systemic solutions to climate change
85. We adapt the solutions to climate change recommended by young people
86. Green lawns and leaf blowers are replaced with pollinator gardens that welcome and nurture insects as our friends and relatives. This is essential to the living earth
87. Composting is compulsory
88. We no longer need dumps and landfills.
89. More green roofs.
90.More bunkers so the above ground isn’t crowded
91. A climate-corps of volunteers similar to the peace corps
92. We will be more like Switzerland
93. Have a progressive/open mindset about change
94.Kelp forests in the oceans because they clean the oceans
95.Living shorelines
96. No more climate refugees
97. Everything on earth will run on electricity
98. No more earth defenders imprisoned or murdered – rather they will be the planet’s heroes.
99. We will have created synthetic rare earth minerals – no need to mine the Earth or Ocean!
100. There will be no need to kill animals for clothes because we will have materials that directly copy them
101. Elected officials will be in favor of renewable energies rather than fossil fuels
102. Elected officials will believe in and honor our Constitution; no tolerance for authoritarianism.
Do you have a vision to add to this list? Send your ideas to deanecoady@gmail.com or cspitzer@gmail.com – organizers of the program.