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