GANE3 brings together educational institutions, governments, business leaders and international development organizations to collaborate on a process of increasing and improving energy efficiency education in environmental education.
BCAP is a nonprofit advocacy organization established in 1994 as a joint initiative of the Alliance to Save Energy, the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, and the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The Building Energy Efficient Codes Network is the Alliance to Save Energy’s coalition to influence national public policy and public opinion on energy efficient codes.
Los Angeles’ LED Street Lighting Energy and Efficiency Program is the largest environmentally-friendly LED (light-emitting diode) lights project ever undertaken by a city. Launched in 2009, the City aims to replace its 140,000 streetlights during the five year program. To date, over 36,000 LED lights have already been installed. This program is implemented by the Los Angeles Bureau of Street Lighting.
The 1200 Buildings program aims to encourage and support building owners, managers and facility managers to improve the energy/water efficiency and reduce waste to landfill of commercial buildings in the municipality of Melbourne.
Mexico City’s Move by Bike (Muévete en Bici) is a Sunday Bike Program that encourages residents to use carbon-neutral transportation by closing major throughways in the city center to motor vehicles, effectively giving the right of way to cyclists every Sunday from 8:00 AM to 2:00 PM. On some weeks, 80,000 residents of Mexico City turn out to participate in the program.
Mexico City launched its Ecobici bike-sharing in April 2010, with 1,100 bikes at 85 stations around the city center. The program’s goal is to reduce the number of vehicles that go through the city everyday (over 5 million), while recovering public space, reducing pollution, and improving life quality.
Metro Hall, a 27-story office building in Toronto, went online with Enwave’s Deep Lake Water Cooling system in June 2006. Energy consumption at Metro Hall will be reduced by 3 million kilowatt-hours per year and reduce CO2 emissions by 732 tonnes annually
Enwave Energy Corporation, through partial financial backing from the City of Toronto as one of the two shareholders of Enwave, developed the Deep Lake Water Cooling system that uses the cool energy in cold water to air-condition high-rise buildings in downtown Toronto. The system benefits the City by:
54% of all Greenhouse Gases (GHG’s) generated in the City of Vancouver are produced by the construction and operation of buildings, both residential and commercial.
