Earth Equity News

Cities Trying to Stamp Out CO2. By Bill McAuliffe, Minneapolis Star Tribune, March 31, 2008. "Thirty-five mayors in Minnesota and hundreds more nationwide have pledged to put a lid on the heat-trapping gases billowing from their cities into the warming atmosphere. Now they're confronting the complexity of following through on their promises. While it's been easy to change light bulbs in City Hall, some steps to combat climate change aren't so simple. Will stopping police cars from idling make their jobs harder? Eliminating some 'no right turn on red' signs will make for fewer traffic backups, but will it cause more accidents? And then there's the biggest challenge: How do you get businesses and individuals in your city to change their polluting ways? In St. Paul, for example, municipal operations account for only 2 percent of the carbon emissions from the city."