Local governments are implementing new and progressive policies and measures to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reductions more quickly.
Alameda County, California's StopWaste.Org headquarters is located in a renovated building anticipating a LEED-NC Platinum rating with a Qualified Bay-Friendly Landscape. Photo Credit: Mark Luthringer Photography
- Cities adopt Construction & Demolition Recycling ordinance
- City passes energy code amendments.
- Zoning code updated to meet LEED standards.
- Public & private sector green building requirements.
Through operations, the residential sector generates 21% of greenhouse gas emissions, the commercial sector 17% and the industrial sector 10%. (US Energy Information Administration, 2003)
