Local Efforts
What Our Partners and Others are Doing
- Breathe Utah
Breathe Utah connects local schools with air quality and idle free resources while helping implement the "Idle Free Awareness" campaign in over two dozen schools in 2011.
- Department of Environmental Quality & Division of Air Quality
Operating the Choose Clean Air program, participating in the Western Climate Initiative. Operate compliance, permitting, planning, and monitoring regulatory programs and are currently drafting a new State Implementation Plan for PM2.5.
- Grounds for Coffee
Established an Idle Free Zone in their parking lot and are focused on reducing their carbon footprint and cleaning the air by creating a community garden behind their shop, composting coffee grounds and food waste, recycling their waste stream, and transporting glass bottles to a Salt Lake City recycling plant.
- Ogden Nature Center
The Ogden Nature Center's mission is to unite people with nature and
nurture appreciation and stewardship of the environment. ONC strives to be
green and teach green in all of its endeavors and was awarded the Utah
Green Business Award 2010, awarded by Utah Business Magazine.
- Salt Lake City Interfaith Roundtable
Bilingual translation of environmental messages to inform and involve new stakeholder groups.
- Salt Lake City Office of Sustainability
Working on the idle reduction campaign, promoting sustainability practices for business, and revamping their fleet to include more hybrid vehicles.
- Salt Lake City Office of Transportation
Developing car share and bike share programs, coordinating interconnectivity of trails and bike lanes, promoting pedestrian safety and continuing traffic signal coordination.
- Salt Lake County
Participating in Snake Valley water rights discussions, are a partner in the idle reduction campaign, have enacted an idle reduction policy for their fleet, and will be installing solar panels on additional County facilities in 2009.
- Salt Lake Valley Health Department
Operating emissions testing and fugitive dust control programs, and have created a resolution limiting green house gas emissions.
- Taylor Canyon Elementary
Are an Idle Free School Zone.
- University of Utah
Coordinating campus sustainability projects and provides a full spectrum transit pass to student commuters.
- Utah Clean Cities
Developed idle reduction curriculum for school bus drivers, working to promote use of compressed natural gas vehicles and establish refueling stations, and writing grants for the idle reduction campaign.
- Utah Department of Transportation
Creation of new travel demand management program called Travelwise.
- Utah Moms for Clean Air
Working with physicians on clean air outreach.
- Utah Parent Teacher Association
Created an idle reduction resolution for school zones
to present at local and national conventions.
- Utah State Office of Education
Promoting idle reduction among bus drivers (approximately 3,000 drivers have taken the course so far) and working on the collaborative school bus retrofit project.
- Utah Transit Authority (UTA)
Working on internal emissions reductions projects and promoting alternative transportation options including walking, biking, Rideshare, and Vanshare.
- Vest Pocket Coalition
Promoting walkability to local businesses.
- Wasatch Clean Air Coalition
Monitoring of air quality rules and permits.
- Wasatch Front Regional Council
Providing funding for air quality related projects, including the school bus retrofits, and planning and analysis for regional growth.
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