Bloomberg the Bigfoot (in Carbon)

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Bloomberg the Bigfoot (in Carbon)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/ny...rssnyt&emc=rss



Bloomberg the Bigfoot (in Carbon)

Published: December 12, 2009
The average New Yorker uses one-half to one-third the electricity of other Americans. Our carbon footprints are just 29 percent of people who live outside the five boroughs, and City Hall has practical plans to reduce even that amount by nearly a third over the next two decades. No wonder that this month, in a talk at the New York Academy of Science, Rohit Aggarwalat, the mayor’s chief adviser on sustainability, said the city was “the most environmentally efficient society in the United States.”