• SSV Monthly Meeting: Australia's largest sustainable business management program for small businesses, Fri. July 25, 9:00am to 10:30am, San Jose. Free, public meeting. Agenda and directions

• SSV Educational Forum: Local Governments - Reducing Greenhouse Gases, Wed. July 9, 2008. Agenda and presentations
  
  
• Presentations from past SSV events are available from the Calendar page

• Welcome new SSV Pledging Partners:
  City of San Bruno, City of Los Altos, City of East Palo Alto

• SSV releases Annual Report: Partners reduce CO2 at 3 times the regional rate; 22 partners meet reduction goals. Press release.

• Financial incentives & resources for your energy efficiency projects: Available to SSV partners under the SVLG/SSV Energy Watch partnership with PG&E. Overview.

Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) is a collaboration of businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations that are identifying and addressing environmental and resource pressures in the Valley.

As its first initiative, SSV is engaging prominent Valley organizations to work towards self-imposed goals of reducing regional carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. These are the SSV Partners.

The SSV approach is to facilitate strategies to reduce CO2 emissions through increased energy and fuel efficiency and through the use of renewable sources of energy.

Vision: A thriving Silicon Valley with a healthy environment, a vibrant economy and a socially equitable community.

Mission: To work with the Silicon Valley community to create a more sustainable future using an Environmental Management System.

New SSV project: Helping Small and Medium Businesses in Silicon Valley Get Started on Cost-Effective Energy Efficiency Improvements and Carbon Reduction Strategies

Green Teams--SSV launches a new resources page for green teams, and is looking for additional green-team best practices to share on this page.

Sustainable Silicon Valley was presented as a case study of a partnership for sustainability at a June 18-19, 2008 symposium convened by the U.S. National Academies' Roundtable on Science and Technology for Sustainability. The symposium focused on the challenges that the partnerships have addressed, including: involvement of several sectors, action at varying scales, from local to global, a combination of public and private financing, and a complex set of science questions.

Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger Names Sustainable Silicon Valley Winner of 2007 Environmental Leadership Award at November 20, 2007 ceremony in Sacramento, CA (PDF).

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2007 Annual CO2 Report (28.5 MB, PDF)

The Sustainable Silicon Valley 2007 CO2 Report is now available! Find out how Sustainable Silicon Valley partners are: Outperformed the Valley by a three-to-one margin Reduced CO2 emissions by a cumulative 517,000 tons Saving money, saving energy, and helping the environment Download a copy of the 2007 Annual CO2 Report (PDF, 28.5 Mbytes).