The Energy Group
The City's Energy Group reduces electricity and natural gas use and greenhouse gas emissions from City facilities through advancing energy conservation, efficiency and solar power generation.
The City's Energy Group reduces electricity and natural gas use and greenhouse gas emissions from City facilities through advancing energy conservation, efficiency and solar power generation.
Team Oakland participants describe their Team Oakland experience and how it impacted their lives
Youth Employment Partnership (YEP) each summer hires approximately eighty Team Member positions for youth ages 15-18, and approximately twelve Team Leader positions for young adults ages 19-24. Applications are being accepted now!
The Graffiti Abatement program is responsible for the abatement of graffiti on public property.
Safety First is our Oakland Public Works Department program that is the foundation of employee safety, and it gives each employee the responsibility to conduct themselves in a manner that promotes safety and health throughout the workplace and in the public domain.
You can find guidelines and technical information about engineering and construction projects here
Read about Oakland’s recent progress in becoming a more livable and sustainable city.
Oakland has a strong legacy of environmental leadership, and has been recognized as a top ten green and sustainable U.S. city eight times in the last several years, including recently being ranked 4th among large U.S. cities by both the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Mother Nature Network.
To plan for and adapt to the effects of rising ocean levels, the City has prepared a Preliminary Sea Level Rise Road Map. Building on multiple studies of the potential for sea level rise to affect people and property in Oakland, this Road Map sets forth the projections for rising Bay levels, the impacts of king tides and storm surges in association with these changes, identification of critical facilities, and a series of recommendations for how the City and the community can help prepare for these impacts.
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