Mayor Gavin Newsom, “Cities and Time”

April 9th, 02009 by Stewart Brand

Mayor Gavin Newsom

Sustainable cities

Mayor Newsom began with how moved he was by hosting the UN’s World Environment Day in San Francisco in 2005. For that event, which was called “Green Cities – Plan for the Planet!”, he invited 120 mayors from around the world. Days of intense discussion led to the publication of 21 policy principles for building permanently sustainable cities, in the areas of energy, waste, design, nature, transportation, health, and water. Cities, Newsom said, consume 75% of natural resources and are responsible for 75% of pollution.

He became determined to help make San Francisco the Greenest city in the world….

Read the rest of Stewart Brand’s Summary

This entry was posted on Thursday, April 9th, 02009 at 10:28 am and is filed under Seminars.

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I agree with De-escalate. It doesn’t make much sense to blog the seminars without linking to the mp3 files ….
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