Comments on: Which Major Cities Are Leaders in Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions?

By: SebHawsaw

SebHawsaw — Thu, 04 Apr 2013 03:28:45 +0000

here’s a piece on other things cities are doing to make a difference

http://www.ledcanada.com/led-conversions-underway-above-and-all-around

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 23:33:14 +0000

NYC? Really? Such BS. They are nothing compared to what San Francisco is doing. Nation’s highest recycling rate (77%), highest use of renewable energy, just profiled on PBS to be the nation’s first zero waste city… http://sfgov.org/site/frame.asp?u=http://www.sfenvironment.org

By: Jonah

Jonah — Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:02:13 +0000

This article is pretty fundamentally flawed. To start with, cities are already very green on a per-capita basis. Sure a city might release more total CO2 than a town, but each individual living in a town or suburb or the country tends to use more energy than a city dweller.

You then go on to laud cities based purely on “plans” and not actions or accomplishments. New York may be great at green washing, but they barely recycle, have a paltry number of Energy Star buildings, still heat a lot of buildings with very dirty oil, etc…

By: kathleenvV

kathleenvV — Sat, 09 Mar 2013 03:46:30 +0000

Under Mayor Bloomberg’s 12 years NYC’s recycling rate is at an embarrassing 15% down from a paltry high of 23% in 2001.

NYC has recently given a huge tax rebate to urban unnecessary and wasteful carbon emission spewer Fresh Direct to build a new, tremendous truck depot in the South Bronx.

Bloomberg’s green credentials are far less impressive than touted, i.e., in this article.