Good for Berkeley. This is the kind of action, citizen powered at local levels, that will get the US back in the league of nations fighting climate extremism…
“Homes and businesses in Berkeley would be required to produce as much energy as they use by 2050 under an ambitious city plan that aims to combat climate change.
The plan released Monday also envisions a city where residents and workers rely on public transit, walking and biking. Cars would run on alternative fuels and electricity. No waste would be sent to landfills. And most of the food eaten in Berkeley would be produced within a few hundred miles.
These measures and goals, which would be realized in stages over the next four decades, are part of the blueprint proposed by city staff members to meet a voter-approved mandate to reduce Berkeley’s greenhouse gases 80 percent by 2050. The measure passed in November 2006 with 81 percent of the vote.
The city’s efforts to meet the mandate reached a milestone Monday when Berkeley officials gathered in front of the city’s solar-powered nature center at the Berkeley Marina and released a 66-page Climate Action Plan, which Mayor Tom Bates called a road map for any community that wants to help avert the potentially devastating consequences of global warming.”
The Berkeley Climate Action Plan and Post Carbon Cities look to be a good way to get informed about what municipalities can do without waiting for national mandates.