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SF OKs $150M in Property Tax Financing for Energy Efficiency, Renewables

February 9, 2010 by Paul Nastu

San Francisco businesses will be able to tap into $150 million in lending for energy efficiency, renewable energy and water conservation projects, reports the San Francisco Business Times. The Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program will let property owners pay back the cost of improvements over 20 years on their ... Read more »

With Water Cuts, Businesses Could Supply LA, Frisco, San Diego

May 29, 2009May 29, 2009 by Paul Nastu

If California businesses adopted proper water efficiency measures, enough water could be saved to supply San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council. Commercial, industrial and institutional sectors, which use an estimated 2.5 million acre-feet of water a year in ... Read more »

San Francisco Pilots Cisco’s Carbon-Tracking Tool

April 13, 2009October 18, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Cisco is adding tools to track carbon emissions by collecting and processing field data, giving companies and cities a chance to understand their impacts on the environment. Cisco is using wireless devices to monitor emissions from areas such as the Brazilian rainforest, all the way to developing a carbon mapping ... Read more »

Bay Area Mayors Sign Sustainability Compact

March 9, 2009March 9, 2009 by Paul Nastu

The Bay Area’s Climate Change Compact could spur further growth and development in sustainable and cleantech businesses. Mayors of San Francisco, Oakland and San Jose signed on to the public-private compact March 6. The San Francisco Chronicle ran a column in favor of the compact, jointly penned by Ron Dellums, ... Read more »

L.A., San Fran, Houston Top EPA’s Energy Star Building List

March 4, 2009March 4, 2009 by Paul Nastu

Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston top the list of U.S. metropolitan areas with the largest number of Energy Star buildings in 2008, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. Other areas that made the list include: Washington, D.C., Dallas-Fort Worth, Chicago, Denver, Minneapolis-St Paul, Atlanta and Seattle. Energy Star buildings ... Read more »

San Francisco Adding Carbon Footprint To Air Travel Budget

February 25, 2009October 18, 2009 by Paul Nastu

For the first time, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom has ordered the city’s departments to declare how much they plan to spend on air travel, the SFEaminer.com reports. Newsom also wants department heads to pay 13 percent of their air-travel costs towards a carbon-offset fund, which will be overseen by ... Read more »

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