Beacon Award-Winner San Rafael Makes Sustainability A Priority

摘要

In 2010 the City of San Rafael became the first participant in the sustainability recognition program known as the Beacon Award: Local Leadership Toward Solving Climate Change. Three years later San Rafael won the first Beacon Award. The League recognized San Rafael's silver-level accomplishments at the 2013 League of California Cities Annual Conference & Expo. The city's achievements included: 1. Agency greenhouse gas reductions of 19.2 percent (2005 to 2010); 2. Community greenhouse gas reductions of 8.1 percent (2005 to 2010); 3. Agency electricity savings of 5 percent; 4. Outstanding efforts to promote energy efficiency in the community; and 5. Participation in 35 activities in the Institute for Local Government's 10 Sustainahility Best Practice Areas.