San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed Unveils "Green Vision"
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The Mayor of San Jose has recently unveiled a Green Vision calling for a 50% reduction in per capita energy use and a switch to 100% renewable energy sources. He is also calling for a number of other green initiatives including the construction or retrofit of 50 million square feet of green building space and all city owned buildings to be on solar power by 2022.
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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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