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Creating a cleaner, greener, and healthier Detroit, together

Meeting the needs of our current generation without sacrificing the needs of future generations

• Established in 2017

• Mission is to facilitate healthy, green,

vibrant, accessible neighborhoods where

all Detroiters can contribute and benefit

through:

• Collaboration between City departments

and agencies;

• Engagement and partnership among the

City, citizens, and relevant organizations;

and

• Process and policy improvement

• Sustainability Action Agenda launched in

2019

• Empowered 14 residents as

Sustainability Ambassadors (2 per

council district) to build local support and

buy-in

• Engaged 6,800+ Detroiters through

townhalls, meetings, web, and surveys

• Worked with 28 City departments though

Interdepartmental Workgroup

• Guided by a Sustainability Advisory

Commission (Co-chaired by Bedrock,

DTE Energy, and DEA)

• Leveraged expertise and technical

support from Bloomberg Associates

and AECOM

Equitable, Green City

Clean, Connected Neighborhoods

Affordable, Quality Homes

All Detroiters thrive and prosper in an

equitable, green city; have access to

affordable, quality homes; live in

clean, connected neighborhoods; and

work together to steward resources.

• Improve air quality and reduce impacts

from pollution

• Increase access to healthy food, green

spaces, and recreation opportunities

• Advance equity in access to economic

opportunity

• Reduce the total costs of housing,

including utilities

• Improve the health and safety of existing

and new housing

• Transform vacant lots and structures

into safe, productive, sustainable spaces

• Reduce waste sent to landfills

• Make it easier and safer to get around

Detroit without a personal vehicle

• Enhance infrastructure and operations to

improve resilience to climate impacts

• Reduce municipal and citywide

greenhouse gas emissions

Healthy, Thriving People




Sample

Outcome Goal Indicator

HTP

HTP

Increase access to healthy food, green

spaces, and recreation opportunities:

Percentage of residents within a 10-minute

walk to a park

Improve air quality and reduce exposure

to pollution

Number of trees planted in the 20 most

vulnerable census tracts

AQH

AQH

Reduce the total cost of housing,

including utilities

Number of low-income households served by

water efficiency programs

Average residential energy consumption per

capita

CCNReduce waste sent to landfills

Citywide recycling and composting diversion

rate

EGC

EGC

Reduce municipal and citywide


Municipal greenhouse gas emissions

Community greenhouse gas emissions


from pollution




opportunity


including utilities


and new housing















from pollution




opportunity


including utilities


and new housing














GSD has renovated over 148

parks, adding over 100 acres of

parkland


from pollution




opportunity


including utilities


and new housing














GSD has renovated over 50 parks,

adding over 12 acres of parkland

HRD has facilitated the creation of

over 750 new affordable units



parkland


from pollution




opportunity


including utilities


and new housing


















We have created over 43 miles of

bike lanes in the last 3 years, the

most of any city in North America



parkland




from pollution




opportunity


including utilities


and new housing





















DWSD built green infrastructure to

manage stormwater from > 900

acres of impervious surfaces

Our entire bus fleet is now

equipped with Wi-Fi, enabling

passengers to access the internet

while taking the bus!



parkland






• Already met goal of

120 buses outlined in

Agenda

• 120 buses currently have Wi-Fi

• All will have in 2020

• Increased digital connectivity for

Detroiters

AccomplishmentsImpacts

To be complete in 2020Timeline

• Transportation

• Technology

• Workforce Partners

• Tasting stations at

day camps

• Procured grant to

expand programming

• Nutrition education, cooking classes,

and gardens at four rec centers

• Commercial kitchen opportunities

• Farmer’s Market


New programming in summer 2020Timeline

• Parks and

Recreation

• Health

• Eastern Market

• Keep Growing

Detroit

• United WayPartners

• Brought together

philanthropy and

private sector

• Increasing skilled

trades training

• 100 home pilot

• 20% reduction in cost of water bill

• Employ/train adults and youth in

skilled trades

• Expand to 500- 1,000 homes annually


1-year program began Fall 2019

Year 2 expansionTimeline

• DWSD

• Cedar Tree

Foundation

• Wayne Metro

• Kohler/Dupont

• ECNPartners

80%75%

25%19% 19%

10%15%

4%

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

Waste Diversion Rates by City

• $780K in grant dollars – State

and Philanthropy

• Outside technical assistance

• 16,000 additional residential customers

• 1,600+ commercial and multifamily

accounts

• 160+ bins in parks, public spaces

• Reduced contamination


Education begins Fall 2019

New carts starting Spring 2019

Continues through end of 2020

Timeline

• Public Works & GDRRA

• The Recycling Partnership

• EGLE (MDEQ)

• Green Living Science/ Zero Waste Detroit

Partners

11%89%

2012 Detroit Municipal GHG Emissions as Percentage of Citywide

Municipal Operations Non-Municipal

61%23%

10%

6%

Municipal Operations GHG Emissions as Percentage by Activity

Municipal Buildingsand Facilities

Solid Waste

WastewaterTreatment

MunicipalTransportation

10.6 Mt CO2e 1.12 Mt CO2e

• Continuous improvement in

utility billing

• Found $400k in savings

• Hire Utility Manager

• Utility bill analysis and corrections

• Energy savings recommendations for

city buildings

• Pilot Green Buildings (Adams Butzel)

• Greening the fleet


2019-2020Timeline

• General Services

• OCFO: Dept Financial Services

• LEAN

Partners

• Funded by Philanthropy

• Greater internal recognition

of value & need for

resilience

• Hire Climate Manager – Engagement

• Update Municipal and City GHG

Assessment

• Develop Wedge Analysis

• Extensive internal & external

engagement: business, community…


2019-2021Timeline

• Local Orgs & Businesses

• City DepartmentsPartners

0

1

2

3

4

5

6

7Number of Lead Actions by Department

• CURES @ Wayne State

• MI Environmental Council

• SWD Environmental Vision

• Detroit Greenways Coalition

• Wayne State Healthy Urban Waters

• Great Lakes Environmental Law Center

• Detroiters Working for Environmental Justice

• Community Development Advocates of Detroit

• UCHC

• GRDC

• ACCESS

• EcoWorks

• Sierra Club

• Incite Focus

• Detroit 2030

• Eastern Market

• Ecology Center

• Food Plus Detroit

• ClearCorps Detroit

• Zero Waste Detroit

• Green Living Science

• University of Michigan

• Bedrock Detroit

• Erb Foundation

• General Motors

• Henry Ford Hospital

• Breathe Free Detroit

• Southwest Solutions

• Great Lakes Bioneers

• LISC

• MoGo

• GLISA

• Pizza Plex

• DTE Energy

• Develop Detroit

• MSU Extension

• Wayne State University

• Congress of Communities

• I.B.E.W. Local 58 Detroit,1

• Eastside Community Network

• Detroit Environmental Agenda

• Wayne Metro Community Action Agency

• Michigan Environmental Justice Coalition

• Detroit Public Schools Community District

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