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Taking Care of Business
By Joel Makower
For all the talk about the federal stimulus money coming out of the U.S. Treasury for things like renewable energy, smart grid and green jobs, much of the action is taking place at the local level. That's nothing new. For years, U.S. governors and mayors -- and their counterparts in Europe, South America and Asia -- have been ahead of their national-level brethren in setting the green agenda.
Example: More than 500 U.S. mayors have signed the U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Agreement committing themselves to meet or beat the Kyoto Protocol targets in their own communities, through actions ranging from anti-sprawl land-use policies to urban forest restoration projects to public information campaigns, as well as pressing their state and federal leaders to do likewise. Its global counterpart is the Clinton Climate Initiative's C40 Cities program, a group of the world's largest cities committed to tackling climate change.
Local climate commitments are heating up. This week, we report that five in six of the 40 largest cities in the U.S. say sustainability is one of their top five problems, according to a new report. Three in four cities studied say they've either already put detailed sustainability plans in place or are in the midst of developing methods for reducing overall greenhouse gases, typically by 10 to 20 percent in the next five to 10 years...
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