RE: Hey, Mike, what's the scoop re the Bay Area Climate ChangeCompact?...
Bruce England
Bye for now!
Bruce
At 1:03 PM -0500 11/30/08, Mike Mielke wrote:
>Hi Bruce et al,
>
>Happy to chat about this after I get back from vacation and my
>schedule clears. Our eventual goal is to have all 101 Bay Area
>cities involved in this public-private partnership, which will be
>kicked off on December 10 in Redwood City with a signing ceremony
>and press conference.
>
>How about talking sometime the week of December 15?
>
>Best,
>
>Mike
>
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>Subject: Hey, Mike, what's the scoop re the Bay Area Climate ChangeCompact?...
>
>So I've been listening to the Better Place press conference, and
>there was a brief mention of the "Bay Area Climate Change Compact." I
>looked up info on it, and durned if your aren't evidently the go-to
>guy
>Naturally, I'm very interested in hearing how the City of Mountain
>View might participate in various ways. Any suggestions at this point?
>Bye for now!
>Bruce E
>
>Bay Area big-city mayors to endorse climate compact at SVLG event
>LEADERSHIP GROUP BRINGS TOGETHER THREE MAYORS
>By Matt Nauman
>Mercury News
>Posted: 09/09/2008
>
>The Bay Area's big-city mayors are expected to commit to a
>climate-change compact today. The scope is wide, but details are thin.
>
>San Jose's Chuck Reed, San Francisco's Gavin Newsom and Oakland's Ron
>Dellums are scheduled to participate in the Silicon Valley Leadership
>Group's annual Projections event on the Santa Clara University
>campus, where they'll pledge support for a region-wide approach to
>combating global warming.
>
>What's being called the Bay Area Climate Change Compact is, according
>to the leadership group, "a call to take immediate action to limit
>greenhouse gas emissions and increase the resilience of the region to
>global climate change."
>
>Few details have been released as the document undergoes some final
>tweaks. But Mike Mielke, the group's director of environmental
>programs and policy, said specific goals have been set for 2013,
>including:
>
>- Reducing electricity usage in municipal buildings by 10 percent;
>- Adding 20,000 so-called green-collar jobs, including both
>management and skilled positions;
>- Decreasing community water consumption by 15 percent.
>
>Other targets in the "Projections: Clean & Green" report to be
>released today include:
>
>- A common standard for green building and rooftop-solar installations;
>- Persuading commuters to use public transit and to walk and bike
>more frequently;
>- Boosting use of renewable energy;
>- Adopting a regional climate-change
>- Diverting more waste from landfills;
>- Increasing use of electric vehicles.
>
>In San Jose, Reed proposed a "Green Vision" in 2007 with similar
>aggressive goals, which have been approved by the city council. In
>San Francisco, Newsom has pushed for incentives to decrease the cost
>of solar panels and pushed for strict green building standards.
>
>"It is expanding the scope of the 'Green Vision' to the rest of the
>region," said Jeff Janssen, Reed's senior policy adviser for
>government relations. "It will allow the Bay Area to speak with one
>voice when we go to Sacramento and talk with our state leaders about
>the things necessary to affect change."
>
>Besides the three cities, leaders hope to get the compact approved by
>a wide variety of entities, including the Bay Area Air Quality
>Management District, the Association of Bay Area Governments and
>other Bay Area cities. It already has been endorsed by the board of
>the leadership group, which represents more than 250 valley
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