With ambitious environmentally-conscious building requirements and the cooperation of the state government, the California Capitol city Sacramento is looking to edge past Chicago as the nation's greenest city.
"'Our goal is to become the most sustainable city in America,' said Sacramento City Councilman Rob Fong."
"Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger now mandates that new state office buildings at minimum qualify for a LEED silver rating."
"Developers submitting bids on a 1.4 million-square-foot state office complex in the works must not only meet the silver standard, but also show their buildings will produce 10 percent of their own power with solar panels or through some other method, said Anne Cavanagh, a project manager with the state Department of General Services."
"A Bee analysis of data from the U.S. Green Building Council found that Sacramento has the second-largest quantity of LEED-certified office space in the nation with 4.3 million square feet, the bulk of it in state-occupied buildings."
"Sacramento trails only Chicago, which has been showered with media attention for Mayor Richard M. Daley's quest to go green."
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