Monday, October 13, 2008

San Jose's Green Vision

As I was driving in last week, listening to KLIV (another shameless plug for the local radio station), I caught something about Mayor Reed's Green Vision for San Jose. I didn't catch all of it and I wanted to know more, so I "googled" it (I guess I can probably drop the quotation marks).

Here they are. (If you click on the title, you can get the complete PDF file.)


Green Vision Goals
Within 15 years, the City of San José in tandem with its residents and businesses will:
  1. Create 25,000 Clean Tech jobs as the World Center of Clean Tech Innovation
  2. Reduce per capita energy use by 50 percent
  3. Receive 100 percent of our electrical power from clean renewable sources
  4. Build or retrofit 50 million square feet of green buildings
  5. Divert 100 percent of the waste from our landfill and convert waste to energy
  6. Recycle or beneficially reuse 100 percent of our wastewater (100 million gallons per day)
  7. Adopt a General Plan with measurable standards for sustainable development
  8. Ensure that 100 percent of public fleet vehicles run on alternative fuels
  9. Plant 100,000 new trees and replace 100 percent of our streetlights with smart, zero-emission lighting
  10. Create 100 miles of interconnected trails

Pretty cool goals, huh. And I understand that they are making good progress on them. I'll give an update on their progress later in the week.

Your comments are appreciated. Thanks for reading.

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