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<br /> <br />Environmental Health <br />Described as <br />: Healthy, resilient ecosystems, clean air, water, and land. Decreased pollution and waste, low carbon emissions that contribute <br />to climate change, lower fossil fuel use, decreased or no toxic product use. Prevents pollution, reduces use, promotes reuses, recycles natural <br />resources. <br /> <br />Goal/outcome <br />: Protect, preserve, and restore the natural environment to ensure long-term maintenance of ecosystem functions necessary for <br />support of future generations of all species. Reduce the adverse environmental impacts of all activities, continually review all activities to <br />identify and implement strategies to prevent pollution; reduce energy consumption and increase energy efficiency; conserve water; reduce <br />consumption and waste of natural resources; reuse, recycle and purchase recycled content products; reduce reliance on non-renewable <br />resources. <br /> <br />Analysis prompts Brief analysis/discussion <br /> <br /> <br />The prompts below are examples of the issues that need to be <br />addressed. . Not all of the prompts and <br />They are not a check list <br />issues will be relevant for any one project. Issues not covered by these <br />prompts may be very pertinent to a proposal- please include them in the <br /> <br />analysis <br /> <br /> <br />Is this proposal affected by any current policy, procedure or action <br />plan? Has advice been sought from organizations that have a high level <br /> <br />of expertise, or may be significantly affected by this proposal? <br /> <br />1. Environmental Impact <br /> <br /> Does this proposal affect ecosystem functions or <br />processes related to land, water, or air? <br /> <br /> Will this proposal generate data or knowledge related to <br />the use of resources? <br /> <br /> Will this proposal promote or support education in <br />prevention of pollution, and effective practices for <br />reducing, reusing, and recycling of natural resources? <br /> <br /> Does this proposal require or promote the continuous <br />improvement of the environmental performance of the City <br />organization or community? <br /> <br /> Will this proposal affect the visual/landscape or aesthetic <br />elements of the community? <br />2. Climate change <br /> <br /> Does this proposal directly generate or require the <br />generation of greenhouse gases (such as through <br />electricity consumption or transportation)? <br /> <br /> How does this proposal align with the internal carbon <br />5 <br /> <br /> <br />