2050 A.D.
Nora 'n Nancy
October 03, 2008
Nora Leah Sherman, green collar blogger, posits 3 provoking questions to Nancy Anderson at Sallan's offices downtown. Learn how one of the first agents hired at the Environmental Protection Bureau worked to transform New York City at its core... Click for the interview.
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Legal settlement funds created from litigation over an old Con Edison plant just might become new building blocks of urban sustainability. Literally blocks. "Greening A Block" proposes to transform a block on the Lower East side into a showcase of energy efficiency and renewable energy. Older environmental benefits programs, like Greenpoint/Williamsburg and West Harlem, never scaled up from model to mantra. Now "Greening a Block" seeks to re-energize the idea of place-based programs to deliver real, tangible benefits. This is an exciting prospect. Download Report »
The Climate Rescue Report
In 2004, the Mayor's NYC Energy Report called for the creation of 2,600 megawatts of new electric power by 2008. The Climate Rescue Report offers a menu of local legislative bills for creating an energy policy and emerging energy economy that are safe, secure and sustainable. Nancy Anderson, Executive Director of the Sallan Foundation, met with contributors to the Climate Rescue Report and contributed to its scope and approach to effective policy analysis. Download Report »
Read the testimony of Sallan's Executive Director about Mayor Bloomberg's PLANYC 2030 to combat global warming while the City grows.
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NYC HPB Panel: The Policy Makers' Perspective, Anderson's Introduction
Our speakers have all tackled projects of real public significance, developed powerful new ideas about how we should build our cities, and ...
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Anderson's Opening Remarks at NY Tackles Climate Change
Every day we see news stories about melting ice caps, record hot weather and Kyoto compliance in other countries. Download Speech »
Nancy Anderson, Ph.D.
Memories of Next Summer
Photos of women wrapped in shawls on steamy summer days in NYC make sense to me. They are prepared for cold offices, colder conference rooms and icy shops and subway cars. But if shawls were 2008’s hot weather trend, we’ve got a problem. The need to anticipate arctic conditions indoors is both weird and a sign of profound failure. Full Article »
Caroline G. Harris
Green Zoning
PlaNYC 2030 is a forward-thinking strategy by New York City’s Bloomberg Administration to plan for the future of City through 2030, which identifies three main areas of challenge: population growth, infrastructure and the environment.
As acknowledged in the Plan, buildings account for 79% of the green house gas emissions in New York City, so modifying the Building and Energy codes are key tools in abating their contribution to global warming. The Plan also recognized that the Zoning Resolution constitutes another one of the key tools available to address these challenges.
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Nora Sherman
An Industry Finds Its Voice
As policy makers’ interest in energy-efficient building operations grows, the New York City real estate and property management industry is charged with transition - can the community find a common voice as it navigates these challenges?
Changes to the energy management practices of the commercial real estate industry represent tremendous opportunity to cut the City's carbon footprint in the next several decades. Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC promises to revolutionize the way that energy is used in the City’s largest properties, first, through offering incentives and, later, mandating appropriate activities and technology. Among the city’s initiatives is a proposal for an Energy Planning Board that will “work with the State and Con Edison to centralize planning for the City’s supply and demand initiatives.” But the Bloomberg proposal does not indicate how the leaders of the real estate industry and representatives of the workforce will participate in the great changes that are to take place.
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