In March, 2000 the mayor of San José, joined by his  staff, presented the results of the project "The Municipality of San José  Towards Sustainability". This project involved the training of  municipality staff on sustainability in practice, and the incorporated the  Earth Charter vision as the basis of its work activities. Some 1800 employees  of San José’s  municipality (involving police, administration, sanitation, infrastructure, and  health departments), about 80% of the total workforce, participated in this  process.

Over  the six-month duration of the project, fifteen training sessions were held to  define desirable strategies for implementing sustainable development. One major  exercise gathered the opinions of participants regarding the moral attitudes  they believe should be shared by the personnel of the city government on  sustainable development. Seminar participants adopted a code of ethical  behavior as their own version of the Earth Charter, based upon twenty-one  desirable principles. Through this project, the City of San Jose made great strides in encouraging  sustainable development and the adoption of a new, more ethical view of a  shared future at the municipal level. 

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