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[Shortpoet-GTD]

"Mayor Bloomberg highlights city's progress in building greener."
"We launched New York City’s ambitious PlaNYC sustainability agenda on Earth Day, 2007.

And in the less than five years since that launch, we’ve taken long strides toward making the goals of PlaNYC a reality.
For example: We’ve planted more than a half-million new trees throughout the city, and also added more than 200 new acres to our parks system.

We’re on the verge of launching a major bike-sharing program, like the very popular bike-sharing systems in London, Paris, and other cities. More than 30 percent of our yellow taxi fleet,
the largest in the world, is now ‘green’ and uses hybrid power.

In fact, when we released PlaNYC, we set an ambitious target of shrinking New York City’s carbon footprint 30 percent by the year 2030. And today, we’re already almost halfway to that goal."


http://www.nyc.gov/p...8&rc=1194&ndi=1

[mariaandrea]

Shortpoet-GTD, on 16 February 2012 - 04:15 AM, said:

In fact, when we released PlaNYC, we set an ambitious target of shrinking New York City’s carbon footprint 30 percent by the year 2030. And today, we’re already almost halfway to that goal."

It's all impressive - and YAY for New York City! - but I find this last bit to be the most impressive. If they're already almost halfway there now, then by 2030 they should far exceed the original goal, and can you imagine what kind of green city that will look like? Love it.

[eds]

The Energy Use of New York City's Buildings, Visualized
Researchers have created a detailed map of energy consumption by buildings.

If policymakers want to reduce energy consumption, first they must grasp what people’s current habits are. That’s the rationale behind a recently published study by researchers from Columbia University. They used publicly available data to develop a detailed picture of how energy consumption in New York City buildings—which account for two-thirds of the energy the city uses every year—varies by location.

Such spatially distributed information, the researchers argue, can illuminate good candidates for cost-effective retrofitting to increase energy efficiency, and can inform strategies for future distributed generation systems. For example, small producers of reusable waste heat or excess solar power could save on transmission by locating buildings near the places that are the biggest users of energy. As more and more detailed information is made publicly available by utilities, appliance manufacturers, and governments, models built from such data will also become more useful. “Information is the first step toward sustainability,” study author Vijay Modi said in a statement.

Source: technologyreview

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[Shortpoet-GTD]

Thanks Ed.