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European Commission for Energy, Environment & Sustainable Development http://www.cordis.lu/eesd/home.html
Example of Municipality Energy Office in Philadelphia The Municipal Energy Office (MEO) is charged with improving energy efficiency and reducing costs in City-owned facilities. Over the past four years, MEO initiatives have saved the City $19.5 million. Examples of successful energy cost reduction projects include:
http://www.phila.gov/summary/energy/index.html
Example of City of San José (California) The Sustainable City Project of the Urban Consortium Energy Task Force develops urban planning processes that identify, rank and implement energy policies and program options for promoting urban sustainability. Over the course of the two-year project, the city of San Jose (California) and two other cities used a common planning process to determine the needs, actions, costs and resources necessary to integrate long-term energy planning into the local policy-making framework.
Through its participation in the project, San Jose designed and implemented an energy management program that sets a target to reduce energy use by 10% across all sectors by the year 2000. These reductions are to be achieved through the incorporation of energy-efficient technologies (including solar design features) in new construction and through the installation of high-efficiency lighting in existing fixtures. In addition, San Jose has expanded its programs in waste management and recycling, water conservation and pollution prevention.
Even before its participation in the Sustainable City Project began in 1990, San Jose leaders had outlined critical public policy issues in natural resource management in a report to the City Council entitled "Toward a Sustainable City." The report identified three guiding principles of sustainability: that maintaining a healthy natural resource base was critical to maintaining the health of the city's economy, that the maintenance of a healthy environment would require the imposition of limits on human development and that the earth, air, water and living biosphere are the collective heritage of humanity and should be protected.
These principles have served to inform the efforts of the City of San Jose in its participation in the Sustainable City Project, and in its policy analysis regarding municipal energy systems, land use patterns, transportation and water and waste systems.
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