SLOW CITIES INITIATIVE-Phase One Information gathering
In January, Tanya Stevens, Calla Ostrander and Joyce Falcone will begin researching Aspen's chance at becoming the first CittaSlow in the USA.
There are numerous criteria that our town needs to meet in order to qualify. This first segment will reveal the environmental criteria. It is our belief that Aspen can meet these criteria and move on to phase two which is naming and preserving our local food, the potato. We will keep posting the challanges that we face as we try to move ahead with our proposal.
Joyce Falcone
Tanya Stevens
Environmental Criteria for becoming a CittaSlow
1. Verify air and water qualities and perimiters are fixed by law.
2. Plan for the promotion and dispersement of trash of both urban solids andspecial rifuse.
3. Plan for composting of both industrial and domestic waste.
4. Verify Existance for a purifying system of water
5. Plan to save community energy, with particular attention to the use ofalternative energy ( renovable, green water, small hydro) and RSUBiomasse.
6. Forbidden use of GMO agriculture.
7. Plan to regolate signs and signals
8. Verify systems for controls for pollution electromagnetic
9. Program to control and reduce acoustic pollution
10. Program to control light pollution
