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340:'s call for California to reduce emissions to 2000 levels by 2010, to 1990 levels by 2020, and to 80% below 1990 levels by 2050. SSV's 20% reduction target was announced publicly in April 2003, and a first group of organizations and companies (SSV Partners) officially pledged to join SSV in March 2004 to work toward reaching this ambitious goal. Each pledging partner also chooses how to meet this target, whether by equipment efficiency improvements (e.g. new equipment), conserving energy (e.g. behavioral changes), increasing the use of 63: 151: 22: 324:
Representatives from these organizations formed a team to develop a project plan and introduce it to a wider group of participants. Participants were invited from the entire Silicon Valley region, including Santa Clara and San Mateo, Northern Santa Cruz, and Southern Alameda counties.
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Sustainable Silicon Valley is a multi-stakeholder collaborative initiative to produce significant environmental improvement and resource conservation in Silicon Valley through the development and implementation of a regional
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by 2016, provides the basis for knowledge transfer among SSV partners as they also move to create their own smart microgrids – integrating smart buildings, renewable energy, storage and communications.
494: 387: : SSV helped Santa Clara University and its utility service providers launch a campus-wide smart microgrid, as the university works towards its goal of becoming 602: 569: 92: 314: 570:"Innovative EcoCloud Helps Silicon Valley Companies Adopt Sustainable Practices - Rosenblum et. All | PDF | Silicon Valley | Sustainability" 35: 381:: Launched December 2010, EcoCloud is a virtual meeting place where one can work with local businesses, industry experts, academia and policy-makers. 369:: Sustainable Silicon Valley established an EcoCouncil for the senior level management of Sustaining Partners to support these endeavors. 215: 108: 187: 401: 498: 252: 234: 132: 49: 280:. As its first initiative, SSV engaged Valley organizations, who are the SSV Partners, to work towards a goal of reducing regional 172: 165: 194: 582: 310: 306: 41: 318: 201: 612: 460: 288:) emissions 20% below 1990 levels by 2010. The SSV approach to reaching this goal is to facilitate strategies to reduce CO 273: 434: 183: 84: 533: 557: 161: 88: 471: 97: 632: 337: 73: 208: 77: 352:
and/or promoting alternative commute options and supporting the purchase of low emission vehicles.
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http://www.cleanenergyauthority.com/solar-energy-news/santa-clara-solar-installation-110810/
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http://www.sustainablesv.org/sites/default/files/dms/media-kitssv-2008-annualreport.pdf
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that are identifying and addressing environmental and resource pressures in
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and political leaders; and non-governmental organizations, led by the
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Environmental organizations based in the San Francisco Bay Area
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Sustainable Silicon Valley's Water Summit: Corporate Partners
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and through the use of renewable sources of energy.
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