When it comes to protecting the health of our environment and our communities, San Francisco earns its reputation as "the City that Knows How" every day. San Francisco is home to some of the world's most innovative environmental legislation and initiatives. We’re home to the one of the largest alternative fuel municipal fleets in the nation, we boast one of the highest recycling rates for a major U.S. city (67%), and we recently became the first city in the nation to enact environmentally friendly purchasing legislation.We hold ourselves accountable for our contributions to global warming and are committed to dramatically reducing our overall greenhouse gas emissions to 20% below 1990 levels by 2012.

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