• Encourage your employees to carpool, combine trips, ride the bus, or bike/walk to destinations when possible.
• Maintain your fleet vehicles to increase efficiency.  Get regular tune-ups and properly inflate tires.
• Drive at moderate speeds.
• Consider fuel efficiency, alternative fuel capability, or even hybrid vehicles when purchasing new vehicles.
• Properly maintain small engines, such as lawnmowers, and consider emissions when purchasing new equipment.

• Support new developments that promote pedestrian traffic through the inclusion of sidewalks, pathways, and crosswalks.
• Encourage alternative transportation by developing regional or local bus programs and bike lanes.
• Consider passing a local ordinance to restrict or prohibit open burning.  Smoke from open burning pollutes the air with fine particles and gases that may cause health problems or reduce visibility.

Examine places where you generate waste—the office, building and grounds maintenance, vehicle fleet maintenance, etc.—then determine where you can reduce waste and save money.  Try these proven pollution prevention strategies:

• Help citizens reduce waste through developing and supporting user-friendly recycling and household hazardous waste collection programs.  Check DEQ's Online Recycling Directory for places that will accept hazardous wastes.
• Consider providing a hazardous waste exchange where individuals can bring in a hazardous waste (e.g., a partially used can of paint) and take home a different produce that someone else brought (e.g., a half-full bag of fertilizer). 

Note:  The laws and rules regarding generating, storing, transporting, recycling, and disposing of hazardous wastes are stringent.  As a governing body, you are required to comply with state and federal hazardous waste laws.  Be sure to carefully review the laws before embarking on any hazardous waste programs for your community. 

Take measures to protect water at your own facilities.

• Repair leaks as soon as they are discovered and install low flush toilets in public facilities.
• Use xeriscape techniques when landscaping to conserve water and to serve as an example for others.
• Use water sparingly where watering is necessary and water at night or in the early morning.
• Avoid over-applying fertilizers and pesticides as excess quantities can end up in ground or surface water.

Encourage water conservation in your community.

• Educate your citizens and businesses about wise use of their water resources.
• Stencil storm drains that drain into local rivers and waterways.
• Develop an education program for industrial wastewater.