City Council Study Session Agenda and Packet 2014 07 08

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develop a practical sustainability energy action plan suited for implementation; 5. Developing an implementation plan for the prioritized actions, with outcomes assessment protocols; 6. Re- inventorying emissions and assessing current and future progress. 5.2 Data Collection Due to data availability, or lack thereof, several of the key indicators of this inventory were developed using proxies to estimate consumption and associated emissions. One source of uncertainty in this regard is the consumption of food. As stated in section 3.6.4, food data was found for the western United States from the 2012 Economic Census by the US Bureau of Labor Statistics16. This metric assumes that Louisville's households consume food the same way every other household in the western region of the country does. It also fails to take business spending on food into account. This is a limitation of the methodology. About 11% of the embodied energy in food comes from transporting it long distances to its final consumers22. By embracing farmers markets and locally grown food, the residents of Louisville may be avoiding some of these GHG emissions. To capture this information, Louisville may want to work in conjunction with the city and county of Boulder, CO to create a food survey to glean information on how much an average household spends on food annually, what types of food (poultry, dairy, red meat, fish, vegetables, fruit, grains, etc.) are purchased, and the portion of households' food that is locally sourced. 6. Sustainability Improvement Opportunities This section of the report details the current state of sustainable action items in Louisville as well as potential strategies for further actions Louisville may choose to implement in an effort to improve sustainability in the community and leverage multiple economic, environmental, and health benefits. 6.1 Current Sustainability Initiatives & Impacts 6.1.1 Building Sector 23 25