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Earth Day Mayoral Sustainability Forum

WNYC's Brian Lehrer moderates Mayoral Forum on Sustainability held on Earth Day 2013 which was sponsored by the The New York League of Conservation Voters Education Fund and The Cooper Union Institute for Sustainable Design.

He invited NYLCV's Executive Director, Marcia Bystryn onto his show for highlights and analysis. Nancy Anderson weighs in

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Nancy Anderson, Ph.D.
The Sallan Foundation

Building retrofits — makeovers to make our thousands of buildings more energy efficient. Not sexy, but candidates ALL recognized that retrofits are key to cutting NYC's carbon footprint. Pretty amazing.

A city of energy efficient buildings will cut its operating costs, save tenants money every month and ease need for building more power plants or importing fuels for heat and light from other places.