This charette is also a fantastic example of how to engage the broader community in the discussion. Kudos to the group for opening up the process for discussion and debate.

One of the things that seems missing in the action plan is the ongoing community engagement of community based organizations and individuals. Large chunks of the climate change problems can be handled by public policy, but behavioral change is also needed at the individual level. Community based organizations can engage the grassroots to affect this kind of change in ways that public policy can not. Achieving this “end use efficiency” will require this kind of effort.

The question than becomes how do you use an engagement tools such as this online charette to get those kind of commitments. A couple of recommendations:
- The language here is at the expert level. I’m not an expert so I’m having a tough time deciphering stuff. We ought to think about as we open up the process how we make this information understandable to lay people like myself.
- Personal commitment page. It would be great to have residents, companies, and community groups be able to post their own personal commitments to forwarding the goals. Let’s get some momentum and new ideas from seeing what each other is doing.
- Marry online efforts like this charette with offline community meetings and social marketing efforts.

Keep up the good work!