The City of Fort Collins Climate Wise Program is a voluntary initiative with over 70 participating businesses from a range of industrial and commercial sectors, including breweries, electronics manufacturers, schools, and retail facilities. The program assists partners in identifying, quantifying, and realizing opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions through energy efficiency, water conservation, solid waste diversion, and transportation management.

The Brendle Group provides a variety of technical and programmatic support services to Climate Wise including assistance with on-site assessments and the evaluation of opportunities and data collection and analysis for the greenhouse gas reducing projects that Partners complete on an annual basis.

Since 2000, partners in the Climate Wise Program have:

• Saved 155 million kilowatt-hours of electricity
• Saved $5.9 million
• Saved 2.1 billion gallons of water
• Diverted 53,000 tons of material from the landfill