Meeting Minutes - US Department of State

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think, for the industry and I think some of the
panelists are going to discuss it a bit further.
But there is a bill circulating in Congress right
now called the carbon offset bill, and Jonathan
actually helped me pull that out from Congressman
Waxman is heading up that bill. And there is a
couple of points that are really interesting within
that bill. It's asking us to become carbon neutral
by 2030, so that's a big challenge, for buildings
over 40,000 square feet or with an operating cost of
$75,000 a year or more.
It also asks us to meet lead silver, as
Bill was talking about, or lead gold, if we could
incorporate some more renewables and justify them
with payback.
And then finally, it asks us to involve the
Energy Star program and their portfolio managers, so
that government can start to tally up and know what
exactly they are doing in all areas and public
disclosure.
Okay, so now we can move to the next could
of slides, because I'm going to talk a little bit
about what the Green Team is doing. If you could,
go to the next slide.
One of the things we started two years ago,
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