Environmental

California is setting the national course on environmental issues. According to recent findings of Next 10, a Palo Alto nonprofit research group, the state’s green-collar jobs are growing faster than any other sector. “Clean-tech investment hit a record last year (2008), despite steep market declines. California leads the nation in patent registrations for green technology.”* Translate these statistics into the goals of your candidacy, your city and your interest group and you have a blueprint for revitalizing your community, improving the health of your constituents, cutting high energy and medical costs, saving precious resources like water and power and creating a more promising future.

Freeman Public Affairs is here to help your organization, city or county formulate programs for seizing the environmental opportunities and benefits that await those who take action now.

• Grow green jobs by attracting environmentally-focused companies.
• Implement smart growth plans and green building initiatives.
• Create energy and water conservation-awareness programs that actually get the public’s attention and motivate action.
• Improve energy efficiency to cut energy costs and raise productivity.
• Mitigate traffic with synchronized signals and the installation of roundabouts.
• Clean up toxic waste and encourage more companies to take back their discarded products, particularly electronic waste.
• Promote graffiti abatement and beautification programs.
• Significantly boost recycling efforts to reduce what goes into landfills.

*L.A. Times, January 26, 2009