Silicon Valley Leadership Group Launches & "Clean and Green" Alternative Energy Action Plan
Comprehensive 12-point Point Plan Encourages Valley Employers, Workers to Engage in Greenhouse Gas Reduction Efforts

The Silicon Valley Leadership Group today launched a comprehensive “Clean and Green” Alternative Energy Action Plan to curb greenhouse gases, reduce dependence on foreign oil and impact climate change throughout the region and beyond.

The 12-point plan, outlined in a press conference at Hyperion Solutions headquarters in Santa Clara and embraced by the Leadership Group’s 210 member companies, offers both immediate and long-term actions that employers, the community and individuals can take in such key areas as transportation, energy, the environment, housing, land use and manufacturing.

“While the need to curb greenhouse gases is a global issue, we cannot wait for a global solution to effect positive change,” said Carl Guardino, President and CEO of the Leadership Group. “Our action plan offers a number of steps that businesses, employers and individuals can take now in our own region to have a positive impact.”

A number of Silicon Valley CEOs and other top executives have joined the Leadership Group in calling upon companies and workers to get involved in the “Clean and Green” campaign.

Among them are Godfrey R. Sullivan, president and chief executive officer of Hyperion Solutions, Len Kwiatkowski, vice president and general manager of Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Tom McCalmont, president and CEO of ReGrid Power, and Tom Bottorff, senior vice president of regulatory affairs for PG&E.

“The impact of our businesses can—and should—go far beyond the bottom line,” said Sullivan. “The Leadership Group initiative intends to harness the innovation, passion and energy for which this region is renowned to encourage positive and environmentally impactful change. Collectively, we have an extraordinary ability to make a difference.”

In 2004, Sullivan pioneered an employee incentive program for purchasing fuel-efficient cars at Hyperion called “Drive Clean to Drive Change.” Currently more than 150 Hyperion employees are driving hybrid vehicles that get more than 45 miles per gallon.

“Lockheed Martin proudly supports the ‘Clean and Green’ plan,” added Kwiatkowski. “We applaud the Leadership Group for its vision and action on behalf of its members and our highly progressive community.”

The components of the “Clean and Green” plan, to be rolled out regionally beginning in January and over the course of 2007, are:

• Cool Commutes Challenge – A Competition to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
• BART Extension to Silicon Valley – Continued Support for Funding
• California High-Speed Rail Advocacy – Corporate Support for 700-mile Project
• Building a Market for Alternative Fuel Vehicles – What Employers Can Do
• Injecting Fuel Efficiency into the Supply Chain Equation – Reducing Energy for Goods Movement
• CEO Cycling Challenge: Bike-to-Work Day – May 17, 2007
• Sustainable Silicon Valley (SSV) – A Public/Private Partnership to Improve Energy and Fuel Efficiency
• Clean and Green Tech: Early Adoption or Demonstration – An Energy-Efficient Data Center and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research
• EnergyWatch Partnership – Working with PG&E for $6.4 Million in Energy Efficiency Rebates
• Lean and Green: Identifying Cutting-Edge Products – Purchasing Energy Efficient Office Products
• Solar Industry Center for Excellence – A Business-to-Business Collaboration
• Municipal Practices and Standards for Green Building – Local Standards for Residential Construction

 More than 50 companies have already committed to participating in one or more of the initiatives of the “Clean and Green” plan. Guardino said he expects many more will join the challenge in the months ahead as each component rolls out.

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