Country in Crisis: Looking to America's Mayors to Rise to the Challenge

I am honored to be mentioned: “…In Portland, while our national leaders are paralyzed on climate change, Mayor Sam Adams declared in his first State of the City address that he would make Portland “the most sustainable city in the world.” To that end, he’s put forward a Climate Action Plan, which by 2050 would cut carbon emissions by 80 percent, launched a pilot program for green retrofitting, and budgeted $20 million for “bicycle boulevards.” He also took a $2.4 million federal grant and used it as venture capital for a Clean Energy Works program. “We could have doled it out to individual facilities and buildings, which would have been more direct and politically expedient,” he said. “But instead, we wanted to create a return on investments in a new industry…”

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