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Palm Desert already has an ordinance requiring new buildings to be more energy efficient than state standards, but before the year is out, it could also have a green building law that covers construction materials and waste recycling.
Increasing the sustainability of the city’s new and existing buildings and cutting down their carbon footprint will be the focus of a community forum to be held at 9 a.m. Wednesday at City Hall, 73-510 Fred Waring Drive.
The meeting is the first in a series of eight sessions Palm Desert will hold over the next four weeks to draw community input for the city’s Sustainability and Climate Action Plan.
Palm Desert is developing the plan as part of its efforts to comply with Assembly Bill 32, the state law that requires cities to take their own carbon inventories, with the goal of reducing greenhouse gases to 1990 levels by 2020, said Patrick Conlon, director of energy management.
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