Cities supporting Kyoto

Written by: Benjamin Sibelman on Dec 9, 2006 9:46 PM EST

This is the main page I found, with links to all of the other information, including a list of the 339 participants (64 of them in California):  http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/climate/default.htm

The actual agreement that mayors are signing onto is here: http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/mayor/climate/cpaText.htm

It includes several substantive action items, though I'm inclined to suspect that not all cities and towns who signed are moving forward on all of these ideas.

"Green tags" are renewable energy credits, sold by utilities such as wind farms.  Waste to energy is what it sounds like: controlled burning or other processing of various forms of waste material to drive power plants.  (Modern incinerator plants apparently produce very little pollution.)

A massive collection of helpful links on how to implement these policies, including descriptions and links to case studies from other cities and towns, is available in the handbook put out by the US branch of the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives: http://www.iclei.org/documents/USA/documents/CCP/Climate_Action_Handbook-0906.pdf

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