Peak Oil Task Force Report - City of Bloomington - State of Indiana

GUIDING PRINCIPLES
In drafting recommendations for this Report, the Task Force was guided by the following
principles:
• SUSTAINABILITY. Recommendations should be sustainable. That is, they
should foster environmental integrity, equity, and economic health. They
should also be more than mere short‐term fixes. Recommendations should
work indefinitely, or at least for a very long time.
• ACTIONABILITY. Recommendations should be actionable. Toward this end,
the Task Force has organized its goals and strategies into those which should
be implemented and/or realized in the short term and those which are long‐
term goals. Most often, the Task Force’s recommendations call for the City
and other community stakeholders to start to explore change immediately,
understanding that it may take years to fully implement a recommendation.
• A FOCUS ON CONSERVATION. While the Task Force’s recommendations call
for greater efficiencies and, occasionally, new energy sources, most of the
recommendations focus on reducing oil consumption. The Task Force
maintains that a lot of the oil we use is wasted. We do not need to use all the
oil we do to have happy, prosperous, and fulfilling lives. To the extent that
much of our current oil consumption is frivolous, initial steps at conservation
should be immediately actionable.
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