San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Unveils "Green Vision"
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San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed recently unveiled a 10-point “Green Vision” calling for a 50% reduction in per capita energy use and a switch to 100% renewable energy sources. Currently, only 13% of San Jose’s energy comes from renewables; California’s goal is 20% by 2010. Reed also calls for the construction or retrofit of 50-million-sq.-ft. of green building space — 22 times the city’s current inventory of green building space. In addition, Reed envisions adding 25,000 new clean-tech jobs, mostly in the solar industry, replacing incandescent light bulbs in the city’s 58,185 streetlights with solar-powered LEDs, converting waste to energy and recycling or reusing 100% of San Jose’s wastewater (the city currently converts none of its waste to energy and only recycles about 10% of its wastewater). Reed says San Jose should account for 100,000 of the 1 million solar roofs the governor envisions for California, and he wants all city-owned buildings on solar power by 2022.
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