Showing posts with label green cities. Show all posts
Showing posts with label green cities. Show all posts

18 October 2007

do your part: lights out san francisco.

if you live in the san francisco area, join me and the rest of the city in a citywide act toward environmental awareness and energy conservation.

lights out san francisco estimates that turning your nonessential household light off for one hour on a regular saturday night from 8.00-9.00p--peak times for lights to be left on--we can save about 15 percent of the average amount of energy that would have been spent.

that's just for one hour. imagine what could happen if we were more aware of lighting needs and turned them off when they weren't being used.

in that one hour change your lightbulb(s) to compact fluorescent lightbulbs (cfl).

20 July 2007

green cities. did yours make the cut?

grist names the 15 green cities worldwide.

congratulations u.s.a., you received 3 mentions!

  1. reykjavik, iceland
  2. portland, oregon, u.s.a.
  3. curitiba, brazil
  4. malmo, sweden
  5. vancouver, canada
  6. copenhagen, denmark
  7. london, u.k.
  8. san francisco, california, u.s.a.
  9. bahia de caraquez, ecuador
  10. sydney, australia
  11. barcelona, spain
  12. bogota, columbia
  13. bangkok, thailand
  14. kampala, uganda
  15. austin, texas, u.s.a.
if your city didn't get listed, you can plead your case in an email to grist.