MAYOR BILL WHITE RECEIVES SYNERGY GOVERNMENT AWARD FROM THE CITIZENS ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION

November 6, 2007 -- Mayor White was presented with the Synergy Government Award yesterday at the Citizens Environmental Coalition's tenth annual Synergy Award Luncheon.

Mayor White has grabbed the attention of the community with his practical approach to making Houston "greener."

He has demonstrated that he knows what it takes to make Houston an environmental city. He's been putting his know-how of sustainability to work, and in the process, he's putting Houston on the map for becoming the energy efficiency capital of the world, and a model environmental city.

Under his direction the City of Houston has made several improvements, including; increasing the City's green space and canopy, creating more recycling locations, contracting over 250 million kWh of renewable wind energy - more renewable energy than any other city in the U.S. - and weatherizing over 1,300 homes which now use less energy, to name a few.

To learn more of what Mayor White and the City of Houston has done, you can visit www.houstontx.gov/environment/index.html.