New York is a national leader in sustainable living. Thanks to an ad on The Future of Green in the October issue of Wired Magazine, I learned about how Green New York state is and has become under Governor George E. Pataki.
Have you hard about the Green Towers, the Bank of America Tower at One Bryant Park in NYC designed by Cook+Fox Architects (image at right)? When completed in 2008, it promises to be the most environmentally reponsible office building in NYC.
Here are just a few Green Initiatives:
- Nation's first tax credit program for developers of green buildings
- Elimination of all taxes on alternative fuels
- An executive order requiring all state angencies to reduce their energy use by 35%
- Protecting nearly 1 million new acres of environmentally sensitive open space
- An historic agreement among seven Northeast states creating the first mandatory cap-and-trade program for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants - designed to achieve a 10% reduction in global warming emissions.
Bloggers who attended NextFest and wrote about Green things are inhabitat and Tree Hugger.
When there are articles about wildlife in Britain moving north because of increasing global temperatures and about the great estuaries of China declared "dead zones", and how the American West will be a hot spot for changes, I am heartened by positive action and good news, such as munching microbes helping to battle global warming. Wouldn't it be nice if we, as a nation, helped spread freedom from pollution around the world (since the U.S. doesn't have one of the top 10 most polluted cities).
Personally, I'm proud to have moved to a state that thinks Green.