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City of Seattle
Gregory J. Nickels, Mayor
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NEWS ADVISORY
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| SUBJECT: Mayor names new director of Seattle Climate Partnership
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
3/3/2008 2:55:00 PM |
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alex Fryer (206) 684-8358
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Mayor names new director of Seattle Climate Partnership
Community activist Charlie Cunniff uniquely experienced to help businesses
SEATTLE -Mayor Greg Nickels announced today that Charlie Cunniff, former executive director of the Environmental Coalition of South Seattle, has been named director of the Seattle Climate Partnership, which helps businesses determine their carbon footprint and how to shrink it.
“Charlie is the right person to take the Seattle Climate Partnership to the next level,” Nickels said. “Across the city, businesses want to take action on climate change, and the Seattle Climate Partnership will give them the technical assistance to make it happen.”
As director of ECOSS, Cunniff helped dozens of industrial companies improve their environmental management practices, including energy conservation, water conservation, waste reduction and recycling, toxics reduction and sustainable stormwater management.
“I am excited to be the Director of the Seattle Climate Partnership,” Cunniff said. “The challenge ahead is to work with Seattle's business community to help them meet this challenge by making strategic decisions that are good for business, good for our community and good for the climate."
Led by 12 founding partners, the Seattle Climate Partnership, a major program of the Seattle Climate Action Plan, provides assistance to Seattle-area employers who want to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. So far, 59 local businesses have signed on as partners, representing the health care, finance, engineering, biotechnology, education and government sectors. The partnership has developed a resource guide, a carbon footprinting tool and other technical assistance.
For more information about the Seattle Climate Partnership, please go to: http://www.seattle.gov/climate/partnership.htm.
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