Cities Take the Lead |Bonus Video

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Local cities and communities are on the front line of implementing innovative energy efficiency programs. In this Bonus Scene of the Better Buildings Challenge SWAP 3 (), brought to you by the U.S. Department of Energy, hear from the cities of Atlanta and Boston about the energy efficiency work they are doing and why it’s important for their cities to have energy efficient buildings.

SWAP mirrors the goal for DOE's Better Buildings Challenge, an initiative launched in 2011 to improve efficiency of American commercial, institutional, multifamily buildings and industrial plants by 20 percent or more over 10 years -with leading CEOs and executives sharing ideas to help spur billions in new investments and energy savings in their facilities. In addition, this season's SWAP brings light to efforts being made in government buildings, which have also grown tremendously.

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Transcript:
Communities, cities, local areas are really where energy efficiency happens in this country. It has a tremendous impact not only on the public sector but on the private sector too.

I think it's important to note that more and more we're seeing that cities are really leading the charge on energy efficiency and water efficiency. We're really the front lines of implementing a lot of these really innovative programs, and making sure that we're best in class for energy and water efficiency.

So, once our residents have the opportunity to learn about these initiatives and incentives, and hear how they can save quite a bit of money from them, they're very, very receptive to it.

We've got great success with the program in that sense. It's just a matter of reaching as many residents as possible, and that's our goal right now. That means that the work that we do here has to then be replicated in the community. And a lot of the work that we do in the environment department is really spreading that message through "Greenovate Boston".

Energy efficiency is all about our capacity to provide services to the residents of the city, cheaply, affordably, sustainably. And that's why it's so important you know, to more than double our size, almost triple the size of the city and double our employment - impossible without energy efficiency being central to that.