Member Meeting | 31015 | Tom Perrigo
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Slides presented by Tom Perrigo, CSO City of Las Vegas, at the March 10 2015 Member Meeting
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- 1. Tom Perrigo Sustainability Officer City of Las Vegas Sin & Sustainability Las Vegas Style
- 3. “Every now and then when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether.”
- 4. Sin and Sustainability – Las Vegas Style
- 8. “Las Vegas shouldn’t even be there.”
- 9. Drought -- and neighbors -- press Las Vegas to conserve water ~John Glionna LA Times "At some point, you have to live within your means, but that doesn't fit with the image of Las Vegas. These people need to remember that it's a city built upon an inhospitable desert. What were they thinking?“ ~Steve Erickson, Great Basin Water Network
- 10. “But, as with many things in Sin City, the apparently endless supply of water is an illusion. America’s most decadent destination has been engaged in a potentially catastrophic gamble with nature and now, 14 years into a devastating drought, it is on the verge of losing it all.” ~Nick Allen, UK Telegraph
- 11. The Thirsty West: What Happens in Vegas Doesn’t Stay in Vegas Even Sin City’s attempts to conserve water are wasteful. ~Eric Holthaus, Slate (ASU)
- 13. Las Vegas, which gets so much criticism for being a completely unsustainable city in the middle of a desert, Las Vegas has quietly become the most water-smart city in the U.S. ~Charles Fishman, The Big Thirst
- 14. • 2014 US Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Award Large Cities • 2014 EPA Green Power Leadership Award – Onsite Generation • 2012 Sustainable Community Awards – Large Community Finalist • APWA: Project of the Year: City Hall • AEE: Las Vegas Solar program • Crown Communities Award for Sustainability / Childhood Hunger • The League of American Bicyclists – Bronze Bicycle Friendly Business & Community More than 40 awards over past decade, including:
- 15. Sustainability Initiative U.S. Mayor’s Climate Protection Agreement (2005) Climate Protection Resolution (R-57-2006) Green Building Resolution (R-81-2006) Energy code, Wind/solar ordinance, PC-CC Workshop (2007) Urban Forestry Resolution (R-26-2008) Sustainable Energy Strategy (R-50-2008) Sustainability Office organized (2010) Conservation Element of the 2020 Las Vegas Master Plan
- 16. Reinvest in Conservation & Renewable Energy Capture Savings Reinvest in Conservation & Renewable Energy Capture Savings Sustainable Energy Strategy
- 17. 21,620,693 17,425,000 7,859,700 5,449,200 5,874,300 4,974,400 0 10,000,000 20,000,000 30,000,000 40,000,000 50,000,000 60,000,000 70,000,000Dollars SES Funding Sources ARRA- NCREB ARRA- QECB ARRA- CDBG ARRA- SEP ARRA- EECBG NV Energy Rebate CLV- Bonds CLV- Sewer CLV- GBSRF Sustainable Energy Strategy Funding
- 18. Sustainable Energy Strategy Projects RENEWABLE ENERGY – Solar Covered Parking (3 MW)
- 19. Sustainable Energy Strategy Projects RENEWABLE ENERGY – WPCF Solar (3.33 MW)
- 20. Sustainable Energy Strategy Projects ENERGY EFFICIENCY – 45,000 LED Streetlights
- 21. Sustainable Energy Strategy Projects ENERGY EFFICIENCY – Building energy upgrades
- 22. Sustainable Energy Strategy Projects ENERGY EFFICIENCY – LEED green buildings
- 23. City Energy Consumption City of Las Vegas August 15, 2012 $500,000 $750,000 $1,000,000 $1,250,000 $1,500,000 $1,750,000 July 2005 July 2006 July 2007 July 2008 July 2009 July 2010 July 2011 July 2012 Total Monthly Energy Costs - FY06-FY13 Total $ Elec Total $ Gas
- 24. City Water Consumption City of Las Vegas August 15, 2012 $3.00 $3.25 $3.50 $3.75 $4.00 $4.25 $4.50 $4.75 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 Millions Total Cost - Water 1,100,000 1,150,000 1,200,000 1,250,000 1,300,000 1,350,000 1,400,000 1,450,000 1,500,000 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 x1,000Gallons Total Water Consumption
- 25. City Waste -10% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 2000 2004 2008 2012 2015 Recycling Rates National Average City of Las Vegas Southern Nevada
- 26. Additional Efforts Toward a Sustainable City City of Las Vegas August 15, 2012
- 27. People, Power, Water, Waste: Building Community to Make Life Better
- 28. "I think we're at the crossroads -- whether we want to be the entertainment capital of the world or a great American city.” Oscar Goodman Former Mayor of Las Vegas and the Founding Chair of Green Chips –
Hinweis der Redaktion
- Las Vegas is known for being Vegas The Las Vegas image is reinforced in movies and pop culture, and is extremely valuable to the Las Vegas economy. It’s part of the reason why 41 million people visited Las Vegas last year and spent over $9 billion gambling. By the way, that represents about 7% of all the money that was bet. Even more money is spent on dining, drinking, shows, shopping, so you can see why the Las Vegas brand is critical to the local economy. We also can’t overlook the importance of Las Vegas to the global economy. X millions travel for conventions, x from outside the U.S. Minor shoe company – just one example
- Our brand is known the world over. I’ve heard that Las Vegas is the most recognizable name of any city in the world. We push that brand, that Vegas Baby image every chance we get.
- Vegas is known for Iconic buildings, entertainment, emerging districts Architect Venturi said he preferred the real fakery of Vegas to the fake reality of Santa Fe
- Many locals and visitors see our City as a mecca for outdoor recreation. I’m admittedly biased, but that’s how I see the city, and that’s how my family and all my friends see this city. Having lived my youth in a resort town high in the CO rockies, access to outdoor recreation has always been a top priority. These are all images from trails within a short distance of my neighborhood. It’s also a jumping off point for x million square miles of national parks, recreation areas, national monuments and conservation areas such as Grand Canyon, Zion, Lake Mead, Spring Mountains, Red Rock and home to world class climbing.
- Las Vegas is often portrayed as a scorching inhospitable desert. We like to think of it as having 9 months of perfect weather for outdoor recreation
- Followed by 3 months of perfect pool weather But not everyone sees it that way
- So why is it that I hear this so often? I had lunch with a Mayor from a major city in Colorado. He pointed out that we needed air conditioning in the summer and there is no water. I countered that the carbon footprint per capita in Las Vegas is lower than any area in Colorado – partly due to the energy needed to heat in the winter time but mostly due to vehicle miles travelled. I heard this from a sustainability director in the bay area, a region that has reduced the size of the san francisco bay by 1/3, or 250 square miles, to accommodate growth. I’ve heard this from a water conservation expert in LA. I’ll talk about them in a minute. As if imposing a built, urban environment on hardpan desert is somehow more damaging to nature than carving a city out of forests in the northeast, or plowing under prairies of the Midwest, or filling in swamps and forests of the south, or building mcmansions on hillsides of the coastal ranges all along the pacific coast.
- By the way, John Glionna lives in Vegas. I hear this frequently from people in southern california. It’s as if people in LA and San Diego have no idea where their water comes from. LA is mostly from the Sierra’s, pumped hundreds of miles through canals and pipelines, at a great amount of loss through evaporation and leaks and a great cost of energy. I read that pumping water over the tehachapi mountains to LA is the highest water lift anywhere in the world. And rainfall over the summer months? So CA averages about the same as Las Vegas, around 1 inch of rain June to August, yet uses 50% more water for residential use per capita. This quote from Steve Erickson is funny, as if 2 million people got together and collectively decided to start a city in the desert, and woke up one day to realize we’ve made a horrible mistake. As with many westerners, he forgets that he too lives in a semi arid environment, while SLC gets 2.5 times more water than Las Vegas during the summer months, I would argue 2.5 inches is not sufficient to sustain well over one million population sprawling from Provo to Ogden. SLC residents use 35% more water per capita than Vegas, and measures 94 on the sprawl index whereas LV measures 39. NYC is 1 on the scale. SLC comes in 94 on sprawl index, where 1 is NYC. Perhaps sprawl is contributing to SLC having a slightly higher obesity rate that LV.
- Nick Allen, Telegraph UK – lives in Las Vegas In the same issue that this quote appeared, there were articles highlighting the great entertainment, dining, shopping, and talking about what a great city LV is to visit. For some reason LV is like a tale of two cities, our brand as Vegas, and our brand as decadent, wasteful sprawling city. The question is how much do these attacks on our city as a place to live and do business impact our brand?
- Eric Holthaus Slate – ASU This guy moved from Wisconsin to Tucson, writes for Slate and did a series of hit pieces on Vegas that were published in Slate, which sells itself as a more thoughtful, objective source of information written by professors and researchers. He focused on water waste and sprawl. He failed to point out that while LV hit 39 on the sprawl index where 1 is NYC, Tucson sits at 171. He also failed to point out that Tucson receives about the same amount of water from the CO river as LV. That LV has reduced its water consumption over 40 billion gallons during the last decade while adding 250,000 people to our population. He also failed to point out that the strip hotels use less than 4% of all water in LV while providing 60% of our economy, and 2/3 of all water used in LV is treated and returned to its source. LV uses less than 3% of CO water, and could just about survive without Lake Mead by drawing, using, treating and returning water to the river. Not so Phoenix, Tucson, So CA. However, much of the water headed to AZ and CA is for agriculture, which supplies LV and most of the nation in the winter and year round for certain produce. THE POINT IS, WE’RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER, AND WE NEED TO BE HONEST AND SHARE STORIES AND INFORMATION BASED ON GOOD DATA. LAS VEGAS ISN’T THE REASON WESTERN CITIES HAVE SPREAD OUT DEVELOPMENT PATTERNS AND WATER CHALLENGES ANY MORE THAN BIG MACS ARE THE REASON AMERICANS ARE STRUGGLING WITH OBESITY
- The fact of the matter is some guys just can’t handle vegas
- Charles Fishman, author of The Big Thirst. His previous book, the New York Times bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect Maybe we need to figure out how to be a little louder about our success. Many of our policies and practices are ahead of our western neighbors and could be helpful for others.
- These are just of few of the awards we’ve received this year, again helping to promote to the world how we are building this community to make life better today and for generations to come.
- So here’s how we are creating a sustainable city and re-positioning our brand: Established clear direction through policies and goals based on the best available information. We didn’t embark in long, drawn out planning process. Set the goal and get busy. As John Maynard Keynes pointed out; In the long run we’re all dead.
- Develop a strategy that is self-sustaining. Direction from Dr Selby: we need to develop a program that is not dependent on changing politics, budgets, leadership. This needs to become embedded in our corporate DNA, it needs to be who we are and how we operate. I can say after many mistakes and false starts, the corporate city is mostly there – sustainability is a core value shared by a majority of employees
- We understood the economics behind the program – got support from finance folks. Investing over $70 million to date during a time of dramatically declining budgets. MA in Economics and BS in Finance were helpful. We leveraged grants, rebates and creative finance solutions to take advantage of tax credits. Our savings excees $5million annually, and the over-all payback across all investments made with city capital is just under 8 years while the average life cycle of energy saving or producing assets is around 15 years.
- We’ve added over 6 megawatts of solar to 40 city facilities and have begun discussions on a utility scale solar project that will take us to net zero
- Our flagship solar project is 3.3 mw solar plant at the Wastewater treatment facility. Treating wastewater accounts for roughly 1/3 of the energy used at all city facilities. This system generates about 20% of the power used there, and combined with the use of digester gas as an energy source, 40% of the power used at the plant is from renewable resources. We’re exploring options for future projects there, including a 2mw solar plant on site, partnering with other agencies to deliver solar to the facility, and we just submitted an application for 3mw of Hoover Dam power.
- 80% of all 52,000 streetlights are LED. The remaining 20% are in the process of being converted. Streetlights account for another 1/3 of energy costs, and we have reduced that spending by 40%. Savings has exceeded expectations, and multiple engineering studies have shown these lights provide visibility far superior to older lighting technologies.
- Buildings account for the remaining 1/3 of energy use. So the City underwent an energy audit on 15 of our buildings with the highest energy consumption 12 buildings received recommended improvements HVAC Lighting Mechanical Window replacements Controls We are in the process of performing energy audits on another 6 buildings under an energy performance contract. We formed an energy committee with Sustainability Office, Public Works, Operations and Maintenance. They meet every two weeks and make investment decisions for the green building fund.
- 8 buildings are LEED certified and 2/3 of all occupied space has been built or converted to a green energy efficiency standard In Nevada there is more sq ft of LEED certified buildings per capita than anywhere in the nation
- Water is clearly a big part of our story. While many look at Las Vegas growth and over consumption at casinos, golf courses and fountains as the cause of declining water levels in Lake Mead, the fact is that we use less than 4% of CO River water, and thanks to innovative conservation programs, businesses and residents in our community have reduced water consumption by 40 billion gallons during a time when we added ½ million people to our population. And, the resort industry uses around 3% of all water used in our community. So, the real culprit of declining water levels is drought in the western states. We are doing our part - water consumption at City facilities has decreased 200 million gallons, equivalent to the water use of more than 600 households per year. We’ve done this by: Converting more than 8 acres of grass to synthetic turf. Recycling more than 75 million gallons of water per day at wastewater treatment plants for use at golf courses or returned to Lake Mead for credit. Designing landscapes using drought tolerant plants and public art. While consumption has declined, costs have increased and are now remaining steady due to changes in connection charges and water rates. By conserving 200 million gallons annually, the City has dramatically reduced the impact of rising costs.
- You can’t talk about sustainability without talking about recycling. I’m happy to report that in the last two years, the City has implemented recycling programs across all facilities – parks, community centers, offices, fire stations – and now we are recycling more than 55% of all materials discarded at city facilities. This has helped us reduce our costs by over $325,000 annually. At the same time, as a community our recycling rates have been increasing and now meets EPA targets at 35% or more, thanks to the ongoing implementation of single stream recycling.
- Other projects include investment in bicycle and pedestrian street improvements to provide additional safe options for people to move around our city. We’ve installed electric car charging stations at city facilities, and with increasing demand we’ll soon be adding more charge stations.
- The entire city has embraced sustainability , making it a strategic anchor in everything we do . I’ve shared with you our “pillars” of sustainability: people, power, water and waste. This is how the City’s Sustainability Initiative is Building Community to Make Life Better
- One of the things I love about this city is that we own who we are. We aren’t trying to be sustainable seattle, or portland or green boston. We’re Vegas, and we own that. It’s funky, but it’s real. Famous Architect Venturi said he’ll take the real fakery of Vegas over the fake reality of Santa Fe any day. Where else can a famous mob attorney turned mayor celebrate earth hour with showgirls? Challenge is how do we balance our brand as Sin City with the reality that we’re a city not unlike any other, with the same challenges that other cities face, but there’s a lot of good things happening as well, and many reasons to call Vegas home. How much does it matter? Haters are going to hate, and people will still move to sunbelt cities and enjoy a great quality of life that works for them. And we will continue to do all we can to put this city on a path to environmental sustainability. Partnerships, partnerships, partnerships