November 26th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Comprehensive Land Use Planning

• Codding Enterprises — Sonoma Mountain Village
  The goal of the community is to build a sustainable neighborhood of 5,000 people which strengthens the community and restores the environment. The 200-acre community of 1,900 homes is being created as a deeply sustainable, mixed-use village that will utilize the deepest green technology as well as the latest new urbanism and smart growth planning tools. The heart of the village – the Town Square – will serve as a community gathering place and support a 5-minute lifestyle with the majority of homes within a 5-minute walk of the Town Square. Through use of new and existing new conservation measures, the community is being designed to beat California’s current energy code by at least 50%, have energy needs met with on-site renewable power, and reduce solid waste to reach a goal of 98% reduction.

Technological and Market Innovation

• Marrone Organic Innovations, Inc. — GreenMatchTMEX
  GreenMatchTMEX is an effective, cost-efficient, nonselective herbicide with no safety or environmental
  issues. It is designed to replace weed control techniques that are environmentally damaging and can
  pose health risks. The product is an organic herbicide based on lemongrass oil and shown to provide
  broad-spectrum weed control for four weeks. It contains only plant extracts and surfactants that are on an approved list of food-grade ingredients, making it exempt from EPA requirements for registration for use in both crop and noncrop areas. It also meets the requirements of the National Organic
  Program rule for use in organic crop production. In sensitive noncrop areas such as parks, public landscapes, and schools, GreenMatchTMEX provides effective weed control with
  no environmental risks.
• Rent-a-Green Box
  Rent-a-Green Box is the “first comprehensive, zero waste, packing and moving system in America.” Founded in 2006, it converts trash mined from local landfills into a suite of sustainable packing and moving products. The company’s Recopack (Recycled Ecological Packing Solution) is a replacement for cardboard boxes. Rent-a-Green Box recycles plastic trash from landfills to make 100% recycled and reusable packing and moving boxes. Recopacks are rented on a weekly basis to households and businesses.The company delivers each order in their green fleet of delivery trucks. The green trucks are powered by biofuel and waste vegetable oil and reduce emissions by 78% when compared to typical diesel delivery trucks. Recopack boxes can be used over 400 times before wearing out, when they are reground into other Recopacks. The company uses its pallets made from over 700 used, cleaned and sanitized diapers to transport Recopacks. It created Recocubes and Expandos to replace Styrofoam packing peanuts, foam sheets, and bubble wrap. Recocubes are made from recycled newspaper sludge and can be tossed into the garden for decomposition. Expandos are created from 100% recycled food and cereal boxes and are recycled into more Expandos after 100 uses. Each Recopack is projected to save over 12 trees in its lifetime, simulates source reduction, and detoxes and reduces landfill expansion.

Sustainable Communities

• Treasure Island Development Authority — Treasure Island Redevelopment Project
  The Treasure Island Redevelopment Project consists of 450 acres on Treasure and Yerba Linda Islands, and is a joint effort between the Treasure Island Development Authority and Treasure Island Community Development, LLC, the competitively selected private master development partner. Highlights of the project include clustered development around a transit hub which will allow two-thirds of the land to be preserved for parks and open space; green infrastructure initiatives to enable the development
  plan to achieve gold certification under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) Neighborhood Development Program; partnerships with local energy providers to allow the island to generate solar and wind energy; the creation of a intermodal transit hub for bus and ferry services to complement a transportation program which prioritizes walking and biking and includes innovative transportation demand management programs such as resident transit passes, parking policies, and congestion management pricing; affordable housing and housing for the homeless; the creation of over 5,000 temporary construction jobs and 2,500 permanent jobs; and, the creation of a Treasure Island Job Corps to provide vocational training to 600, 16-24 year-olds.

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