Everyone's talking about "greening the code" as a critical path to 30x30.
Sallan commissioned the CUNY Building Performance Lab to assess the green potential of the NYC Building Code and report back.
PowerPoint and photos from "Greening Our Built Environment: Three Approaches to Cutting NYC's Carbon Footprint", a panel organized by the Sallan Foundation, Columbia University's Center for Energy, Marine Transportation & Public Policy and the New York League of Conservation Voters.
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The New York Times takes timely note of those superheated subway platforms that make summer in the city hard to bear. Nancy is certain that solutions won't require rocket science.
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Sizing Up Japan's Carbon Footprint
Labels with standardized carbon footprint information will soon appear on Japanese consumer products. Learn more
Venture PowerUK and US venture capital invests in smart electricity grids in the US and Canada that use IT for better reliability and efficiency. Plug in
Made Where? Now What?If products Americans buy come from China and Chinese factories have a bigger carbon footprint than US counterparts, what's a climate conscious consumer to do? Hint: no easy answer
In the Carbon Age
Wetter & Drier
Satellite data suggests that IPPC climate change models might lowball both future storm and drought severity. Dip in
NRC: Licensing The Future
A Nuclear Regulatory Commission report explores how to license the 'very high temperature gas-cooled reactor'. What's that?
LEED 2009
LEED is evolving. Get the summary. Start here
At the Academy
Team New York Tackles Climate Change
Visit our eBriefing for a look at New York's big energy plans. Free access for Sallan viewers.
Market Muscle: Can Cap & Trade Cut Carbon
Visit our latest eBriefing about hot markets for a cool planet on the New York Academy of Sciences website. Free access for Sallan readers.
By: Nancy Anderson, Ph.D.
2008 will be a landmark year in American politics, but not for federal climate legislation. The springtime follies in the Senate will mean we must wait until next year, or perhaps longer, for any comprehensive national law. Until then, cities will remain the leaders and the laboratories in fighting climate change.
Out of this ferment from below progress will be made — and some errors too — while we learn how to cut our carbon footprint, to measure our successes and calculate the costs.
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By: Gail Karlsson
Having spent the past fifteen years involved with United Nations processes and agencies, I sometimes have to wonder whether anything concrete ever comes out of all these meetings, summits and frameworks for action.
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Debate co-sponsored by Sallan and the Energy and Environmental Law Committees of the NYC Bar Assn., with the additional sponsorship of the New York State Bar Assn., the American Bar Assn. and the Environmental Law Institute.
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Nancy Anderson & Edna Sussman explore the plusses and minuses of cutting carbon emissions by caps and trades or carbon taxes in this second interview in the City Bar's podcast series on climate change.
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The Queensbridge Wind Power Project
23 Aug
The CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities is proud to present the 3rd annual Governors Island Science, Art Exhibition and Lecture Series: Sustainable CUNY | Sustainable NYC. Here's your chance to know what's new and green in NYC. Andrea Polli of Hunter College will speak about urban wind power.
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Sustainable Cities Town Hall: An Open Forum
30 Aug
Join Bill Solecki, Director of CUNY's Institute for Sustainable Cities and fellow New Yorkers in an open forum for envisioning a green future for the Big Apple.
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Combating Climate Change: A Leadership Initiative
4 Sep
Rocky Anderson, founder of High Road for Human Rights and former Mayor of Salt Lake City, will give the keynote address at Regional Plan Association's 2008 Mayors' Institute on Climate Change
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A Radical Change in Urban Transport to Challenge Sustainability
26 Sep
RATP, the major transit operator responsible for public transportation in Paris and its surroundings, has employed an innovative and provocative group of thinkers to aid in their planning for the future. Unlike many U.S. transit properties, or transportation agency, where planning is simply matching estimates of future demand to changes in supply, RATP asks ,”What will the mobility needs of future Parisians be?”
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Seattle unveils its plan to slash energy demand in five years and shrink utility customers' bills by $310 million. Here's how
Shareholders' Climate ImpactCERES, a shareholder-environmental co-ordinator, sees greener corporate policies emerging from climate resolutions. Capital!
Don't Spin Here UPDATEThe Times trashes Mayor Bloomberg's wind power ideas. End of thought BUT Mayor says energy conservation is NYC's key to success. Go to it
