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Goals:
Across all segments of the community
- Significantly decrease overall community consumption, specifically
the consumption of non-local, non-renewable, non-recyclable and
non-recycled materials, water, and energy and fuels. The city should
take a leadership role in encouraging sustainable procurement, extended
producer responsibility and should explore innovative strategies to
become a zero waste city.
- Within renewable limits, encourage the use of local, non-polluting,
renewable and recycled resources (water, energy – wind, solar and
geothermal – and material resources).
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2007 |
2008 |
2010 |
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C |
C+ |
C |
C+ |
B- |
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A |
A |
A- |
A- |
A- |
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If the city as a whole is to meet its aggressive Sustainable
City Plan targets, residents and businesses will have to prioritize
resource use reduction. Solid waste generation exceeds the
Sustainable City Plan ceiling and continues to increase. Diversion
dropped to 62% of generation, down from a high at 67%, thus reversing a
nearly ten year record of improvement. Water use increased 3% and
remains higher than our aggressive target levels. However, water and
energy conservation has kept at bay expected increases in resource
usage associated with Santa Monica’s strong economy and growth in
construction activity. Energy conservation measures have been
successful and energy use in the city remains stable. The city
government continues to purchase 100% renewable power for municipal
operations and our commitment to green building resulted in the Main
Branch of the Santa Monica Public Library receiving Leadership in
Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification. The city
continues to be a national leader in modeling sustainable practices
with the successful launch of Solar Santa Monica, a bold initiative to
install solar panels on Santa Monica’s rooftops and make a big step
towards energy independence. The grade for this area has dropped due
to the increases in waste generation and water use and the drop in
waste diversion rates.
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