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SALT LAKE CITY GREEN

SALT LAKE CITY GREEN. Ensuring a Sustainable Community. Presented by: Salt Lake City Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson. “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations." - From the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy. Salt Lake City Green.

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SALT LAKE CITY GREEN

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  1. SALT LAKE CITY GREEN Ensuring a Sustainable Community Presented by: Salt Lake City Mayor Ross C. “Rocky” Anderson

  2. “In our every deliberation, we must consider the impact of our decisions on the next seven generations."- From the Great Law of the Iroquois Confederacy

  3. Salt Lake City Green Environmental programs and goals that help preserve the health and vitality of our community, today and in the future.

  4. Salt Lake City Green Initiatives • Municipal EMS • Alternative transportation • Zero Waste • e2 Businesses • High Performance Buildings • Climate Protection • Open Space • Smart Growth

  5. Alternative Transportation MASS TRANSIT

  6. Alternative Transportation PEDESTRIAN SAFETY

  7. Alternative Transportation BICYCLING

  8. Transit Oriented Development and High Performance Buildings Future Intermodal Hub

  9. Pollution Prevention and the Salt Lake City Green Fleet CITY FLEET

  10. Salt Lake City Green Fleet CITY FLEET

  11. Zero Waste and Recycling • Residential Recycling Program • Paper of all types • Boxes • All plastics 1-7 • Aluminum • Steel food cans • Milk and juice cartons

  12. Zero Waste and Energy RENEWABLE ENERGY ENERGY EFFICIENT LIGHTING

  13. Zero Waste and Energy Renewable Energy

  14. Zero Waste and Water Conservation

  15. Open Space and Watershed Protection

  16. environmentally and economically sustainable businesses e2 Businesses

  17. Climate Change “WASHINGTON, DC, March 28, 2001 (ENS) - The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, confirmed today that the country will not implement the Kyoto Protocol. "We have no interest in implementing that treaty," Whitman told reporters.

  18. Climate Change “Global warming is threatening the world’s ski resorts… Downhill skiing could disappear altogether at some resorts, while at others, a retreating snow line will cut off base villages from their ski runs as soon as 2030.” - CBS News. Dec. 3, 2004

  19. 2004 Salt Lake City Government Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reductions 2004 corporate emissions reductions total 21,500 tons of eCO2. 104,500 99,500 (81% of goal to reduce by 26,500 tons of eCO2)

  20. Conclusion Salt Lake City is taking real action and seeing real results in our efforts tocreate a sustainable community.

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