Innovative Leadership on Clean Energy
For the past eight years I have been fortunate to have the chance to serve on the Asheville City Council.
Asheville has emerged as a national leader for clean, renewable energy:
- Asheville City Council committed the city to reduce its carbon emissions by 80% and to require all new municipal building to LEED Gold standards.
- We replaced our old, polluting diesel buses with a new fleet including many clean, quiet hybrid buses that use far less gas and are replacing our old city street lights with new LED bulbs, which will save taxpayers $650,000 a year in lower utility bills.
- We supported Asheville Green Opportunities, to provide job training and mentoring for young people so they can develop work experience and marketable skills in the new clean energy economy.