{"id":586,"date":"2010-02-02T12:50:27","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T17:50:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=586"},"modified":"2010-02-02T13:02:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T18:02:48","slug":"the-nyc-green-codes-task-force-executive-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/?p=586","title":{"rendered":"The NYC Green Codes Task Force: The Executive Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/image.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/image_thumb.png\" border=\"0\" alt=\"image\" width=\"240\" height=\"130\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a> City dwellers tend to think of the natural environment as something external to their lives, a fragile wilderness that needs to be protected through national efforts. But this way of thinking has begun to shift in recent decades. Climate change is now recognized as a universal threat, and dense cities have come to be understood as environmentally preferable to suburbs, despite seeming \u201cunnatural.\u201d In this context, green building has emerged as a solution to many environmental challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This is perhaps truer in New York City than elsewhere in the United States. While most U.S. cities focus their environmental policies around transportation, New York is already blessed with an excellent public transportation system. Consequently, 75 percent of greenhouse gas emissions and 85 percent of water use in New York are<br \/>\nattributed to buildings.*<\/p>\n<p>In 2007, New York City released PlaNYC, a comprehensive environmental agenda to guide sustainable growth. The plan calls for reductions in energy use, water use and other environmental impacts,<br \/>\nculminating in a 30 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. This goal was later codified into law under the Climate Protection Act (Local Law 55). But because buildings have such a preponderant impact on the environment, the goals of PlaNYC will be<br \/>\nachievable only if the performance of the city\u2019s buildings is improved substantially. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbangreencouncil.org\/greencodes\/greencodestaskforce_exsummary_final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">[Read rest of report]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Green Council has produced an exhaustive report on using building codes to make New York and other cities greener and healthier places. The executive summary is specific and well-written, leaving the reader with a clear sense of what needs to be done. Link to it here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itstheenvironmentstupid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}