Helpful links

NYC’s PlaNYC 2030 offers a chapter on climate change at www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/
downloads/pdf/report_climate_change.pdf.
The chapter includes a discussion of energy use and New York’s strategy to reduce global warming emissions, at http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/
downloads /pdf/report_climate_change.pdf.

Find more tips at the NRDC’s Guide to Greener Living at www.nrdc.org/cities/living/gover.asp and This Green Life at www.nrdc.org/thisgreenlife/0409.asp.

The Energy Star site, at www.energystar.gov, provides information on products, tax credits, updated standards and more.

Explore Columbia University’s Climate Change Information Resources for projections on climate change in NYC, adaptation and mitigation strategies, and more at http://ccir.ciesin.columbia.edu./nyc/index.html.
 

This is part of the June 19, 2008 online edition of The Riverdale Press.

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