My city has monthly Citizen's Forum meetings, where we can speak directly to the City Council about things we care about. Once they resume (following the COVID pandemic), I intend to speak to them about this issue.

Small-scale farming is way more widely used in indigenous communities than in society at large, so community gardens could likely learn a thing or two from them.

Yes! Life cycle assessments of products help businesses plan for reducing emissions in the future, and are the right thing to do from a moral standpoint. Frameworks already exist for tracking environmental impacts of products (thanks, International Business class...), so it's a no-brainer that companies should take into account how their products affect our world.

(I accidentally deleted this the first time - yes, I want to run for office.)

We have a city council member who has prioritized bike lane development and public transit in the past, so Vancouver is doing better than many places when it comes to biking. That said, I'd love to see some form of subsidy that rewards and encourages biking over single-commuter vehicles.

I was really surprised by how much of the food we perceive as 'local' isn't. I think that globalization has numbed us to the fact that the oranges in our orange juice come from Brazil, and that the flour in our tortilla chips comes from New Mexico. This is good from an economic perspective (and from the perspective of having oranges, because you can't exactly grow them here...) - but it's still sobering to think about how that contributes to pollution.

I can do home gardens, try to do agroforestry and in general try to not mess with the environment/land.