Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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SUSTAINABLE CITY - San Francisco, CA PLANNING + GREEN INITIATIVES
SUSTAINABLE CITY - SF PLANNING
San Francisco’s greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets follow a schedule, [in aim to reduce their carbon footprint and fulfill their initiative of achieving long-term sustainability of Sf’s built and natural environment. City-wide and neighborhood-scale efforts revolving around classic and widely-acknowledged environmentally sustainable categories which address: “climate protection, energy, water, waste and materials, air quality, ecology, and resilience.”
...So far their reduction targets have been attainable based on their ongoing success with being able to reach specific targeted measures, and the schedule is shown accordingly below:
25% reduction from 1990 emissions by 2017, 40% of emissions by 2025, and 80% by 2050.
With the introduction of newer and more enhanced technologies for more efficient and smart usage, the city has shifted and indeed altered the way service is delivered, the quality of life is ensured, and the approach to the overall reduction of carbon emissions and footprint, the city has implemented to ensure more years are added to Earth’s existence in the solar system in combating climate change.
The city continues to dedicate its service to this initiative of a sustainable city by embedding a comprehensive sustainability lens across the vast of its initiatives, in support and advocacy of maximizing co-benefits and regulations. 40% of SF's overall CO2 emissions come from cars and trucks. With this being said, San Francisco has adopted an ambitious action plan to outline its goals and pursuits to lower its carbon footprint. Creating these policies and providing an outline is a great start in the right direction. Clearly now, people have the opportunity to resort to and support legislation in efforts to keep us in the right direction for the long run. This topic of 'sustainable city' is just an initiative that San Francisco and many other cities around the globe have dedicated themselves to further investing in the generations after them to direct them in the right (cleaner and healthier) direction.
What has your city, county, or even country, done to implement green initiatives in order to combat climate change?
