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�Sustain the Present, Build the Future�Cohort: Kara Scott

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Process

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Steering Committee

Visioning Event

Map Review

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Showcase

Action

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“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”�~Albert Einstein

So let’s think differently…

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Power of Collaboration

Bringing the right people together

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Project 1: Level Up!

  • Multi-Level Parking Structures
  • Building up, not out, to avoid wasteful use of natural lands and consolidate parking
  • Provide for EV charging, area for murals, ecofriendly building design
    • Utilizing Solar or other green infrastructure
    • Promoting use of union labor
  • Foster and promote public transit use
  • Create more friendly traffic patterns for locals
    • No more avoiding downtowns!

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Project 2: Multi-generational Community Centers

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  • Identify key locations for maximum benefit
  • Create space for healthy living
  • Foster community well being
  • Provide area for child care and senior friendly activities
  • Job creation in multiple sectors

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Project 3: Age is just a number, except when its not

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  • Affordable 55+ Communities
  • Highest common age of Carbon County is 64
  • Lack of communities designed for aging population
  • Foster development of facilities that allow for aging in place
    • Maintain character of community
    • Incorporate sustainable design and green infrastructure
  • Transition to safe housing for elderly
  • Create sustainable jobs in living wage fields

https://data.census.gov/profile/Carbon_County,_Pennsylvania?g=050XX00US42025#populations-and-people

Population Pyramid: Population by Age and Sex per the U.S. Census Bureau

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Project 4: Let them eat veggies

  • Despite plentiful farmlands, Carbon County is a food desert
  • Lack of transit prevents families from accessing fresh food
  • Healthy, locally grown, produce is needed to sustain our citizens and provide for a healthy lifestyle for our children
  • Emphasize the need for farmland preservation and sustainable farming education

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Further impact:

  • Media Coordinators through local municipalities
    • Increase transparency, provide information, coordinate to create synergy of events
  • Enhance trail use through interactive QR codes to feature history, art, and local business
  • Collaborate with county and municipal governments for updated ordinances that require ecological and business sustaining practices
  • Partner with Unions to encourage apprenticeship programs, keeping young talent from fleeing the area
  • Promote Home National Parks to encourage backyard gardens friendly for pollinators
  • Encourage Environmental Advisory Councils to bolster education to residents

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Steering Committee

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Kara Scott

COG Chair/ Elected Official/ President BARC

Richard Nothstein

Retired Business Owner/ Elected Official

Linda Christman

President Save Carbon County

Darlene Nothstein

Community Advocate

Tina Henninger

Business Owner/ LAMA

Autumn Canfield

Local Gov’t Management

Carol Etheridge

Fed Gov’t Support

Jenn Pantella

Community/ Advocate for the Unhoused

Brandon Fogel

Ecotourism Business Owner

BJ Cryder

Boilermakers/ COG rep/ Elected Official

Ben Stemrich

Media Consultant

Christian Bartulovich

Elected Official/ COG rep/ Olympus

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thank you

REIMAGINE CARBON

REIMAGINECARBON@GMAIL.COM

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