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Detroit sustainability director highlights solar initiative, building benchmarking and compost pilot in 2024 annual report
Summary
At a Detroit City Council committee meeting April 21, Safira Rushton, director of the Office of Sustainability, reviewed the office’s 2024 annual report, saying a city solar initiative and a building benchmarking ordinance are central to meeting greenhouse-gas targets and that a community composting pilot will start this spring.
Safira Rushton, director of the City of Detroit Office of Sustainability, told a council committee on April 21 that the office’s 2024 annual report centers on an array of efforts — from a Solar Initiative to a pilot community composting network — aimed at reducing greenhouse-gas emissions and improving public health.
"This is actually the perfect place to talk about sustainability, because it is a public health issue," Rushton said, adding that the office tracks emissions from both municipal operations and the community.
The nut graf: Rushton said the Detroit Solar Initiative, expanded benchmarking of building energy use and new resilience hubs are intended to help the city meet targets the council approved in city code. She told council members the Solar Initiative alone is expected to push the city past a 35% greenhouse-gas reduction target set for 2024.
Rushton described four priority…
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