Thanks to everyone who has sent in their ideas and requests for future Sustainable City Series topics. I have taken all of the suggestions thus far (as of 10/14/09) and tried to group them into categories, reducing down similar or identical topics were they existed, and summarized many of the elaborate responses for a quick glance at what people in our community would like to learn more about. With close to 100 responses so far, I have provided a distilled list below. The ordering in which the categories appear is loosely based on frequency of the suggestions within the category beginning with the highest. If there are topics or specific areas you would like to learn more about and do not see in the list, please contact us HERE . We will continue to revise the list and use it to start searching for available speakers and the appropriate combination or expansion of topics.


HEALTH
- School Food
- Farm to School
- Local Farming
- Nutrition Education for Children
- Update of Local Food & Agriculture Topic
- Healthy Food for Children


TRANSPORTATION
- Ohio River Bridges Project impact on Public Transit
- General Sustainable Transportation
- Two-Way Streets
- Light Rail
- Public Transit
- Public Transportation Options
- Ohio River Bridges Project
- Bike and Pedestrian Infrastructure


PARKS & GREENSPACE
- City of Parks and the Louisville Loop
- Urban Forestry
- Native Plants
- Parks
- Native Plants/Invasive Species


BUILT ENVIRONMENT
- Public Spaces
- The Built Environment/Human Scale Development
- Preservation
- Light Pollution
- Green Infrastructure in Louisville


ENERGY
- Groundwater Heat Pumps
- Wind Power
- Alternative Forms of Generation/Latest Technologies
- Decentralized Energy/Combined Heat and Power
- Energy Security


BUSINESS
- Impact of Small Businesses to Improve Communities
- Sustainable Economic Development
- Encouraging/Lobbying/Influencing Local Businesses to be more sustainable
- Small Scale Local Economies
- Sustainable Workplaces


WATER
- Water Conservation in Residential and Commercial Applications (graywater systems, etc)
- Stormwater Runoff
- Reclamation of Water
- Porous paving, green roofs, vegetation and importance of ground water infiltration, avoiding erosion, flooding
- Wet Growth


COMMUNITY
- Local Strategies for Vacant Properties
- Public Art
- Cooperatives
- Creating One Cohesive Sustainable Movement


WASTE DISPOSAL/REUSE
- Our Disposable Society
- Recycling (particularly for businesses)
- Composting


HOME
- Home energy savings
- Building Insulation and Roofing Technology
- Residential Conservation


AIR
- Air Quality
- Indoor Air Pollution


TECHNOLOGY
- Trade Show with Sustainability Items On Display
- Low Tech Green
- Using Technology to Organize Sustainability Efforts (social networks)


EDUCATION
- School Campus Sustainability
- Environmental Education


LAW AND PUBLIC POLICY
- Environmental Justice
- Update of Climate Change Committee for Partnership for a Green City
- Landuse Law and Sustainable Development
- Environmental Protection


HANDS ON INSTALLATION/WORKSHOPS
- Installation of Solar
- Green Construction
- Bail House Construction