On Friday, September 21, citizens around the world will celebrate Park(ing) Day. What is Park(ing) Day, you might ask? Park(ing) Day calls for participants to create temporary public parks by transforming metered parking spaces for cars and other vehicles.
C40 Cities San Francisco and Buenos Aires were among the four finalists of the 2012 Sustainable Transport Award, granted each year by a committee that includes the most respected organizations working internationally on this issue.
Last night, Huffington Post Impact ran a piece by C40-CCI finance director Scott Henderson describing the job creation and energy saving potential in a new Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) program. The cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco just recently announced the implementation of innovative, “open-market” PACE programs that have been developed in conjunction with C40 and CCI. Scott had this to say about it:
“San Francisco prides itself on being one of the most sustainable cities in the U.S.,” the city’s director of the Department of Environment. The city brought its experience with innovative programs to the C40 Mayors Summit in Sao Paulo last month, among them, a plan to get to zero waste by 2020. The city already recycles or composts 77 percent of its waste, the highest rate of any major U.S. City.
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