Sentences with phrase «carbon cities program»

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Students who graduated from my program last year have founded ventures focused on healthy, affordable frozen meals, college preparedness in inner cities, and carbon footprint management software for energy consumers.

Other cities have ambitious programs to apply the Internet of things and big data to cut carbon, relieve traffic congestion and air pollution, and generally make our cities more livable.

Also at noon, NYC Councilmen Costa Constantinides and Ydanis Rodriguez announce the introduction of a bill to create a pilot program for electric vehicle charging stations on street parking, aiming to encourage the use of electric cars, and help reduce carbon emissions citywide, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

Since taking office, Hoffay has embraced a series of progressive urban planning initiatives including the Complete Streets program to make Kingston more bike - and pedestrian - friendly, an initiative to reduce the city's carbon footprint and efforts by the Kingston Land Trust to create community gardens and preserve open space.

Marrying bike - sharing with carbon trading Like most Chinese cities, Shanghai mainly runs its bike - sharing program with government subsidies.

As city - dwellers and tourists switch from riding fossil fuel - powered vehicles to public bikes, more than 30,000 tons of carbon dioxide emissions is reduced annually, estimates Tao Xuejun, vice president of the program.

To control greenhouse gases the Chinese government is experimenting with pilot programs in seven cities and regions that use carbon markets

The authors argue that cities need to step out of traditional roles in planning urban infrastructure and learn how to better understand the needs of residents in order to craft policies and programs that enable the adoption of energy and carbon - efficient technologies and practices.

On the non-governmental side, the Sustainable Cities Program at Energy Foundation China focuses on reducing carbon emissions and air pollution in urban areas with an emphasis on sustainable urbanization and transit systems.

In his announcement, Mayor Gavin Newsom explained that the program would seek to offset the carbon cost of city officials» municipal air travel by making contributions to one of several participating city programs aimed at lowering emissions.

According to the mayor's press release, it will also provide «City government, residents and businesses information regarding the true costs of carbon intensive activities, which are likely to be much higher than nominal amounts charged by several current offset programs.»

Such strategies have set the bar for other programs, such as in California and Masdar, Abu Dhabi, which intends to become the world's first zero - carbon and zero - waste city.

These programs help all of us — including residents, businesses, cities, towns and State government — to save money on our energy bills, reduce our carbon footprint and add to the 15,000 clean energy jobs in our economy.

C2ES is working with cities, states, and businesses to explore cap - and - trade, carbon taxes and other market - based strategies for cost - effective emissions reduction, with the ultimate aim of a national market - based climate program.

Elizabeth served Climate Solutions as program manager for the New Energy Cities program, working with cities to help them meet their carbon reduction goals through innovative programs and polCities program, working with cities to help them meet their carbon reduction goals through innovative programs and polcities to help them meet their carbon reduction goals through innovative programs and policies.

The city - wide approach to carbon finance gives cities greater flexibility to create a GHG mitigation program covering one, a few, or all sectors, as part of a single comprehensive effort.

Los Angeles moved to spread the EV advantage more widely last week when the city launched an electric - car - sharing program that is subsidized for low - income residents, funded in part with carbon auction revenues.

Governmental actions in city, state, regional, and federal programs to promote energy efficiency have also contributed to reducing U.S. carbon emissions.

He previously worked with Seven Generation Advisors, acting as project manager for low - carbon, economic development projects, and as director for a Smart & Sustainable Cities Program.

And 64 % of the respondents said they were biking more because of the program, confirming bike share can significantly reduce a city's carbon footprint and improve health outcomes.

(05/23/2013) China has unveiled details of its first pilot carbon - trading program, which will begin next month in the southern city of Shenzhen.

And more than a dozen cities, towns and counties, under new pressure, have cut off financing for a program that offers expertise on how to measure and cut carbon emissions.

Research of United Nation Environment Program indicates that the content of carbon dioxide over the city will decrease by 80 percent in case the roof - greening rate of a city reaches above 70 percent, and Tropical Island effect will completely disappear.

During her time at Urban Green, she worked with the New York City Mayor's Office to green the city's building codes, launched a national green training program for professionals in the construction industry, and published research on how to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 2City Mayor's Office to green the city's building codes, launched a national green training program for professionals in the construction industry, and published research on how to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 2city's building codes, launched a national green training program for professionals in the construction industry, and published research on how to reduce the city's carbon emissions by 2city's carbon emissions by 2050.

The massively successful global program trialling LED lighting technology in 12 major cities across five continents, became the driving force of our campaign for an International Standard on low carbon outdoor street lighting.

Energy use in single - family homes in Portland accounts for about 20 percent of all the carbon emissions in the city, says Andria Jacob, a senior manager for energy programs at the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability.