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Greenbytes: July 30, 2003 Edition
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In a boost to the City of Cambridge’s environmental goals and the bank’s bottom line, Cambridge Savings Bank has implemented a comprehensive energy efficiency program that recently earned the bank’s corporate office complex and main branch a 2003 ENERGY STAR label. Since CSB began its energy program in 2000, the bank reduced its overall energy use by 22% between 2001 and 2002 and saved more than 460,000 kilowatt hours and $60,000 a year on its energy bills. These efforts also reduced emissions of sulfur dioxide by nearly 3,000 pounds, nitrogen oxide by more than 1,000 pounds and carbon dioxide from electricity generation by over 370,000 pounds, which is equivalent to planting 65 acres of trees. “When we compare options for investing our money, energy efficiency is an easy choice to make because it’s a high-return, low-risk investment that also helps the environment,” said CSB President Kevin J. Fitzgerald, at a ceremony in mid-July to celebrate the ENERGY STAR designation. Following ENERGY STAR’s five-stage upgrade approach, the bank began by working with its mechanical contractors to make sure systems such as heating, air conditioning and electric were operating as efficiently as possible. Consultants helped the bank develop a program so that all of the bank’s nearly 300 employees were actively engaged in the project. Every building and branch, for example, was given savings goals to achieve and each received quarterly incentives, including certificates towards meals and team events, when they succeeded. The ENERGY STAR designation was especially welcome news for the City of Cambridge, which has a Climate Protection Plan in place calling for a 20% reduction from 1990 levels in greenhouse gas emissions by the city as a whole by 2010. “Cambridge Savings Bank’s success demonstrates to other local companies that energy efficiency is possible, even in older, historic buildings in the city,” said Henrietta Davis, the city’s vice mayor and chair of the Health and Environment Committee. EPA introduced ENERGY Star in 1992 as a voluntary, market-based partnership to reduce air pollution through increased energy efficiency. Last year alone, the program helped Americans save enough energy to power 15 million homes and reduce greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to those from 14 million cars – all while saving consumers and businesses $7 billion. For more information about the program, call Bill White at 617-918-1333 or visit our Energy & New England’s Environment web site. Web Resources:
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