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City Conserves Energy, Cuts Costs, With Common Sense

Posted by: Abhijeet Chavan
Thanks to: Jim Barrows
18 October 2005 - 12:00pm

City of New Haven seeks innovative, cost-effective ways to curtail municiapl energy expenses and could be a model for municipalities across the nation.

"Now that natural gas, oil, and electricity prices have jumped significantly, New Haven - with its efficient street-lights and bulk purchases of natural gas - could become a model for other municipalities across the country...

New Haven is not necessarily a haven for yoga-stretching environmentalists. Instead, this old manufacturing town relied on better bureaucracy for savings...

Most of New Haven's savings efforts have revolved around conservation - not renewable energy. But that could change...Sustainability is becoming more politically popular."

Full Story: As energy prices soar, a city finds ways to cut the cost
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, October 18, 2005
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