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Office of Sustainability

The Office of Sustainability was established in 2005 with the intention of guiding the City to become more efficient and effective at delivering quality services to residents, and in order to help shape Cleveland's future. The office works with the City’s administration as well as its departments to integrate sustainability principles into daily operations and achieve the following goals:

  • Save the City of Cleveland money and reduce its ecological footprint, or combination of resource consumption and waste generation
  • Use sustainability as a tool for economic development
  • Introduce a sustainability culture and its principles into the community

Focusing on these goals will help to retain people, businesses, and intellectual capital in the region by providing a friendly and healthy place for people to live, visit, and work.

Office of Sustainability Brochure

 

Sustainability: meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.


  
    Energy     
    Green Building     
    Health & Environment     
    Recycling & Waste Reduction     


Energy and Energy Efficiency

solar panelsAccomplishments: entering the US Mayors Climate Protection Agreement, joining Local Governments for Sustainability, and UN Global Compact, active lobbying for statewide Advanced Energy Portfolio Standard -more

Currently in Process: electric energy from advanced/renewable sources, replacing traffic/crosswalk signals with LED lights, Lake Erie wind monitoring, reducing carbon footprint, waste-to-energy feasibility study, solar hot water project, combined heat and power project, energy assessments, biodesel project -more

Office of Sustainability
Andrew Watterson
Chief of Sustainability
601 Lakeside Ave.
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

P: 216.664.2220
F: 216.664.2378 
Ohio Relay: 711
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Mission Statement

   
 

We are committed to improving the quality of life in the City of Cleveland by strengthening our neighborhoods, delivering superior services, embracing the diversity of our citizens, and making Cleveland a desirable, safe city in which to live, work, raise a family, shop, study, play and grow old.


– City of Cleveland