Around 55 residents offered suggestions to fight climate change from banning drive-thrus to putting tolls on every 400-series highway in the province at a public consultation with the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change session at Kitchener Public Library on Thursday evening.

Presenters were asked to keep comments concise and most people heeded the request.

These suggestions on how the province should approach climate change will go back to the ministry and later will be presented along with ideas from other consultations to the provincial government.

Here is a collection of some of the ideas presented. Do you have an suggestions? Email us your ideas at yournewskw@cbc.ca.

On reducing Ontarians’ reliance on gas-powered vehicles:

Ban drive-thrus

Install tolls on urban streets

Install tolls on all 400-series highways

Maintain and enforce an electric vehicle charging network across the province

On research and education:

Dedicate a portion of carbon tax revenue to scientific innovation

Fund social sciences research on how people react to changes made for reducing emissions and how to get people to accept those changes

Create climate change curriculum for grades K-12 (e.g. teaching about backyard gardens to kindergartners)

On carbon pricing:

Ontarians should receive dividend cheques as incentive

Consider the impact of carbon pricing on businesses and residents

On integrating traditional First Nations and Métis knowledge: