Environmental Cooking 101

Common Ingredients:
While many of the recipes in this cookbook are different, there are a number of ingredients common to all. These ingredients and utensils are essential to good results:

a desire to find flexible, low-cost solutions
a shared commitment to cleaner air
participation of business and industry leaders, regulators, and the public
an open process for consensus building
an understanding of community resources
positive project planning.

Trying a Demonstration Project

Do you like to experiment? Make up your own recipes!
This shows you how it's done. Start with an idea... Ask yourself these questions:

Will it make the air cleaner?
Will it be reasonably simple to implement?
Will it require changes in the law?

Keep these tips in mind:

Focus on a sources of emissions and a single idea.
Keep the program as simple as possible, and think it through.

Write a concept paper

Try to explain how your idea will work in less than two pages. Then, send it to a group of industry representatives, plan a meeting to discuss how the idea might help them and ask for a budget and staffing plan. If you got this far, your idea is a good one. Now, prepare a program plan.

Ask these questions:

Who will need to be involved?
What will they have to do?
How will they evaluate the results?
Who will pay for the program?

Once your plan is ready, just follow your own instructions. It's easy!

Some tips for success:

Get a politician excited about your idea. Let the regulators know what you are planning. Get them involved.
Set a time limit, but make sure you give your idea a fair chance.
Keep the media involved and informed.
Don't create false hopes or expectations.

Once you've finished, evaluate your results honestly. If it works, congratulations! You found a new way to clean the air.

Environmental Cooking 101

Trying a Demonstration Project

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