COOL PLANET CULTURAL PARTNERSHIP

The Balboa Park Cultural Partnership is a nonprofit organization formed in 2003 through which 27 arts, science and cultural institutions in Balboa Park, , collaborate to achieve greater organizational efficiency, innovation and excellence. The Partnership’s member institutions include , performing arts groups and theatres, cultural centers, gardens and the .

SAN DIEGO’S HISTORIC MUSEUMS AND REDUCING GREENHOUSE GAS ZOO COLLABORATE TO CUT CARBON ENERGY EFFICIENCY PROJECTS Through collaboration and community • Heating, ventilation and air building, the Balboa Park Cultural Partner - conditioning (HVAC) retrofit “I ship’s Balboa Park Sustainability Program projects have been installed at 11 am very proud of the (BPSP) has developed a shared vision for cultural institutions, including the “greening” Balboa Park. It continues to Mingei Inernational , progress that has been advance solutions that will help protect House of Hospitality building made in the Park over Park resources and strengthen economic and the Timken Museum of Art. the last few years. viability, while enhancing staff and visitor • A 30-year old HVAC unit at the The Balboa Park experience and enjoyment. Established in historic Old Globe Theater was Cultural Partnership 2008, the Sustainability Program’s purpose replaced with a water-cooled, screw has provided leadership is to save money and natural resources compressor chiller that is 30 percent through collaboration, through teaching and implementing more efficient, saving $4,000 - $8,000 which has helped bring energy efficiency and other conservation monthly in energy costs. best practices, benefiting business, build - this issue to the forefront. • A total of 29 lighting retrofits at the With the help of corporate ings, and museum artifacts. Working with Museum of Photographic Arts, San ® ® sponsors like San Diego San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E ) and Diego Art Institute: Museum of the Gas & Electric ®, the The Climate Registry’s Cool Planet Program, Living Artist, San Diego Automotive BPCP is achieving its goal to lower the partnership with the Museum, , carbon footprint of the Park through City of San Diego and San Diego Model Railroad Museum, extensive energy management projects. Reuben H. , San numerous Park Diego Museum of Man and the stakeholders, we have World Beat Center are saving energy. succeeded in making • An upgrade of lighting in the exhibi - sustainability a At the San Diego Zoo, tion galleries at the San Diego Natural TOP priority in the Park.” History Museum reduces the purchased number of lamps by more than half. Councilman electricity is Todd Gloria the largest These energy efficiency projects contributor to result in an annual energy savings of the Zoo’s car - 87,000 therms and 6 million kilowatt- hours (kWh) and an energy cost bon footprint. savings of over $1 million. Through Replacing all these energy efficiency initiatives, of the lighting Balboa Park’s carbon footprint is in the main Zoo gift shop is now saving reduced by 4,137 metric tons of CO2 $15,000 annually. The Zoo is installing annually, which is the equivalent to energy efficiency technology such as Vari - the annual greenhouse gas emissions able Frequency Drives (VFDs) on several of 811 passenger vehicles. For more information, of its filtration systems, which has reduced visit www.bpcp.org overall energy consumption by 15%. www.theclimateregistry.org