Imagine Greater Tucson 2010-11 Phase I Community Conversation and Survey Statements Related to A strong green business sector

1	Alternative transportation - more light rail, electric cars, platinum status as a cycling community. Lots of pedestrian space downtown, arts warehouse district full of artists, nurturing our successes in optics and other industries, being aggressive about bringing high paying jobs to town, supportive of arts and small businesses, green economies.
2	Attract industries that do their jobs well and have low environmental impact
3	Balanced sustainable economic growth (perhaps in light clean industry/high tech/research) with jobs that pay a living wage
4	Because I am a member of the Tucson Green Chamber of Commerce
5	Develop infrastructure for more sustainable, greener living for all.
6	Direct our economic development officials to focus attention on growing the Green Economy.
7	ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE ABILITY TO GET A BIGGER SHARE OF THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE.
8	Focus local food production
9	Focus on attracting more environmental and green industries.
10	From the ground up, Tucson is becoming a hub for sustainable design, Green products, LEED certified buildings, alternative energy technologies, organic gardening. This bodes well for the future here.
11	Go solar and green whereever possible
12	Going green
13	Governments need to focus on creating a sustainable and robust economy to generate resident well being, needed tax revenues for services vs. tax and fee increases, retain our UA graduates. Focus on development of orders for large scale solar electric facilities would be a way to do so, also reduce water usage/reduce environmental damage and related subsequent costs to taxpayers/government
14	Green Incentives
15	Green Infrastructure
16	Green jobs
17	Green jobs would be a great future for our community
18	Green transportation (personal and public)
19	Have 'greener' industry
20	I believe that the Green Economy and the Buy Local efforts are key to our future as a viable community.
21	I love that everywhere I go in this city, someone is promoting a green living idea, or getting up into the mountains, or Saguaro National Park. People here really appreciate the desert and the surrounding mountains.
22	I think that with the drought we are in, the city of Tucson should have a rule/law for businesses: New business parking lots have to have xeroscaped landscapes to help prevent flooding and to help reduce/eliminate plant water bills.
23	I want Tucson to thrive, economically, socially, and educationally. I want us to attract eco-friendly business to a city that values its heritage and its environment. We cannot do that without excellence in education. I want this to be a city I am proud to live in and one that I want to continue to live in.
24	I want to live among businesses and people who respect and protect the environment in general and Tucson's natural world in specific.
25	I would like to see Tucson capitalize on our status as a solar city and combine forces to do what it takes to influence the state legislature and corporation commission to offer carrots and sticks to build our green industry.
26	I'm 100% dedicated to a solar powered and green Tucson. I believe we need to find a new way to live and interact with each other, nature, animals, and our planet. Going solar and green brings these benefits and life lessons to us. We'll all be the better for it.
27	If alternative energy could be made a viable commodity, we could turn this thing around
28	Increase environmentally sound industries for sustainability e.g. solar
29	Increase urban agriculture
30	It's a no brainer to use solar (the effort started in the 1970s) and have green businesses
31	Less wrangling about who does "green" better. Let's work together!
32	Mobilize the entire population to reduce our mamterial footprint and produce more of our own vital resources in the region
33	More clean industry
34	More clean jobs
35	More incentives for green businesses, especially solar
36	More incentives to attract green businesses (solar in particular) to come to Tucson
37	More solar and renewable energy development and practices
38	More support for local ranches/farms sustainable agriculture
39	More support of green energy
40	Need to be doing more conservation & using more alternative energy
41	New industries can take environment into consideration and protect the environment (not use too much water)
42	Proactive in recruiting new renewable industries
43	Southern AZ could be a center for green tech, solar, education. I'm embarrassed by Raytheon and mass imprisonment of our own youth
44	Sustainable green job emphasis - such as solar!
45	The current recession can be used to re-examine and re-direct our priorities from a boom-town that caters to massive housing projects leap-frogging into the rural areas to an innovative community that capitalizes on our abundant sunshine and invests in the most dense areas of the valley with infrastructure improvements. It would benefit all of us if we stopped promoting new development and started investing in jobs that are sustainable and in the city that is already here.
46	The emerging Green Economy.
47	The potential to be a very green community
48	We have an opportunity to be a leader in renewable energy but no one has stepped up. For god's sake, New Jersey is the nation's #1 producer of solar energy products; they have 100 days less sunshine a year. What is wrong with this picture.
49	We need another big company like Raytheon. Not another missile company. We need a solar company, that will create more jobs. 10,000 jobs.
50	We should be the leader in solar energy rather than known for our air force base. nor should we continue to allow Raytheon be our best employer. solar energy jobs should be the best.
51	Would like to Tucson to be a mecca for industry leaders in solar/alternative energy technology and use; not only to address global warming, but to bolster our flagging economy with high-tech jobs in an industry that makes sense to our region. Think of all the abandoned strip mines (Bisbee leaps to mind) that could be filled with solar panels to generate electricity).
52	You can't beat it. The climate also provides us with opportunities to explore alternative energy sources.