The Christian Science Monitor
Left on the Cutting Room Floor
April 17, 2008
When a reporter for the Christian Science Monitor asked Nancy for her reaction to the President's climate policy speech, she replied, "President Bush said that by agreeing to Kyoto Protocol goals, the US would have limited its economic growth and shifted US jobs to other countries. Well today, we're facing a recession and more US jobs have shifted overseas although we've done nothing as a nation to tackle global warming." Unfortunately, it didn't make it into the CSM article.
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Legal settlement funds created from litigation over an old Con Edison plant just might become new building blocks of urban sustainability. Literally blocks. "Greening A Block" proposes to transform a block on the Lower East side into a showcase of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Older environmental benefits programs, like Greenpoint/Williamsburg and West Harlem, never scaled up from model to mantra. Now "Greening a Block" seeks to re-energize the idea of place-based programs to deliver real, tangible benefits. This is an exciting prospect. Download Report »
The Climate Rescue Report
In 2004, the Mayor's NYC Energy Report called for the creation of 2,600 megawatts of new electric power by 2008. The Climate Rescue Report offers a menu of local legislative bills for creating an energy policy and emerging energy economy that are safe, secure and sustainable. Nancy Anderson, Executive Director of the Sallan Foundation, met with contributors to the Climate Rescue Report and contributed to its scope and approach to effective policy analysis. Download Report »
Read the testimony of Sallan's Executive Director about Mayor Bloomberg's PLANYC 2030 to combat global warming while the City grows.
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NYC HPB Panel: The Policy Makers' Perspective, Anderson's Introduction
Our speakers have all tackled projects of real public significance, developed powerful new ideas about how we should build our cities, and ...
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Anderson's Opening Remarks at NY Tackles Climate Change
Every day we see news stories about melting ice caps, record hot weather and Kyoto compliance in other countries. Download Speech »
Nancy Anderson, Ph.D.
If Climate's The Question, Is Sticky the Answer?
A reporter for the Christian Science Monitor called me on Earth Day last year and asked what I thought of the chances for success of Mayor Bloomberg’s then newly-launched PlaNYC 2030. I told him, “In an era in which New Yorkers have decided to have term limits on their elected officials with a maximum of eight years for everyone, if they want to do something with a longer shelf life, you need legislation or a lasting bureaucratic structure that is hard to break up.”
Now, another Earth Day has passed and I’m still sticking with that response, but it’s time to get specific.
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Adam Hinge, Om Tajeda & Michael Bobker
Sustainability In Commercial Buildings–Bridging The Gap From Design To Operations
The green, high performance buildings industry has seen exponential growth in recent years. A plethora of new technologies and practices have rapidly evolved with the intent of reducing buildings’ impacts on the environment and improve the indoor air quality and worker productivity. An overwhelming amount of information is flooding the buildings trade literature with claims about improved performance.
Unfortunately, most of this information is based on expected performance, instead of actual measured or demonstrated performance. While initial concepts and design documents express a modeled performance, too often that is not effectively translated into commensurate operations, maintenance, refurbishment or user awareness and acceptance.
Nora Sherman
An Industry Finds Its Voice
As policy makers’ interest in energy-efficient building operations grows, the New York City real estate and property management industry is charged with transition - can the community find a common voice as it navigates these challenges?
Changes to the energy management practices of the commercial real estate industry represent tremendous opportunity to cut the City's carbon footprint in the next several decades. Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC promises to revolutionize the way that energy is used in the City’s largest properties, first, through offering incentives and, later, mandating appropriate activities and technology. Among the city’s initiatives is a proposal for an Energy Planning Board that will “work with the State and Con Edison to centralize planning for the City’s supply and demand initiatives.” But the Bloomberg proposal does not indicate how the leaders of the real estate industry and representatives of the workforce will participate in the great changes that are to take place.
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