The City made great strides in its first year of working toward sustainability, including the following:

° Creation of a volunteer employee committee “Green CDA Team”
° Completion of an energy audit and a performance based contract for energy savings programs with Johnson Controls
° Completion of a city facilities pilot recycle program and implementation of general recycling practices
° Identification of existing green practices
° Installation of motion sensor light switches
° Creation of sustainable section to the web-site
° Creation of a quarterly E-Newsletter with education and reminders to staff
° City Council approval for single stream recycling (community-wide)

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Giant, 10-day-long UN conference on sustainable development gets underway in Rio de Janeiro

(Silvia Izquierdo/ Associated Press ) - Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, right, and Environment Minister Izabella Teixeira arrive for the inauguration of Casa Brasil or Brazil’s Pavilion, one of the events taking place on the first day of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, or Rio+20, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, June 13, 2012. The Rio+20 gathering, that runs from June 13-20, marks the 20th anniversary of the so-called “Earth Summit”, which some say put climate change on the world agenda.
















RIO DE JANEIRO — The United Nations’ largest-ever conference has kicked off in Rio de Janeiro.
The Rio+20 conference on sustainable development is expected to draw some 50,000 participants including delegates, environmental activists, business leaders and indigenous groups.  For more of this story go to:  http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/giant-10-day-long-un-conference-on-sustainable-development-gets-underway-in-rio-de-janeiro/2012/06/13/gJQAbPGVaV_story.html
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