Bloomberg leading Independent and Green in new nationwide polls

Among Independents, and greens, Bloomberg has the most positive favorable-unfavorable ratio of all the possible candidates for President.

http://blog.chron.com/rickperry/2011/12/potential-third-party-candidates-face-uphill-battle-to-win-but-they-could-be-game-changers/ 

Michael Bloomberg praise for Bordo Poniente Landfill Closing Helps "Green" Mexico City

"Cities are on the frontlines in dealing with the impacts of global climate change, and they are leading by example in reducing greenhouse gas emissions," said New York City Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg.  "The Bordo Poniente project is a bold step that serves as a shining example of the impact C40 and the Clinton Climate Initiative can have in supporting cities' efforts to green their environments and their economies.  Through actions such as this, we can implement solutions on a local level that will truly make a difference globally." 

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bordo-poniente-landfill-closing-helps-green-mexico-city-136063528.html 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cornell-wins-bloombergs-nyc-tech-campus-heres-what-the-2-million-square-foot-school-will-look-like-2011-12#ixzz1hIlwZIY2 

Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/cornell-wins-bloombergs-nyc-tech-campus-heres-what-the-2-million-square-foot-school-will-look-like-2011-12#ixzz1hIlolDuW

Mike Bloomberg's Impressive Green Sustainability Record

‎by

Steven Cohen

Executive Director, Columbia University’s Earth Institute 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/steven-cohen/mike-bloombergs-impressiv_b_1129140.html 

Bloomberg led Independents and Greens could quickly become America's third major Party.

On building rail infrastructure, renewable energy, solar, wind, hydro, geothermal, Michael Bloomberg is America's defacto leading Green.  A Bloomberg led Independent Green Party could elect many to the U.S. House and U.S. Senate in 2012 and create America's third major Party.  See Michael Bloomberg's interview with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchel here.  http://www.mikebloomberg.com/ 

Bloomberg Green initiatives on Youtube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DomkiAHxB_g 

Bloomberg works for Greener New York

Buildings dominate New York City's carbon footprint. Approximately 75 percent of New York City's carbon emissions stem from energy used in buildings, and today's existing buildings will make up 85 percent of all real estate in 2030. Therefore, increasing the energy efficiency of the city's existing buildings has been, and will continue to be, a central PlaNYC focus. Indeed, the full effects of the City's energy efficiency efforts launched to date are expected to reduce annual citywide greenhouse gas emissions by 4.5 million metric tons of CO2e by 2030, which is equivalent to nearly 7.5 percent of citywide 2005 baseline emissions. To address the critical area of energy use in existing buildings, the City has enacted a set of efficiency requirements for existing private and public sector buildings. In December 2009, Mayor Bloomberg signed the four legislative components of the Greener, Greater Buildings Plan, the most comprehensive set of efficiency laws in the nation. Together these laws remove a loophole in the energy code to ensure that it applies to all construction projects, require annual energy efficiency benchmarking that will be disclosed to the public, and mandate a set of cost-effective energy efficiency upgrades and evaluations of the city's largest buildings, both public and private.

http://www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml 

Michael Bloomberg,

Green Party and Grassroots-Powered Innovation

http://www.governing.com/blogs/bfc/community-innovation-collaboration-resources-grassroots-new-york-city.html 

For those who care about climate change, air pollution and public health, this is the best news out of Washington, D.C., in some time. 

Michael Bloomberg

 Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York announced on Thursday that his main charitable organization would donate $50 million over four years to the Sierra Club’s campaign to shut down coal plants and move the United States toward cleaner sources of energy.

 http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/21/bloomberg-and-sierra-club-join-forces-to-slow-coal/

When it comes to sustainable transportation, Michael Bloomberg is saving his strongest words for an international audience. While the mayor’s rhetoric on transportation now tends to focus on safety, when transportation is on his agenda at all, at a meeting of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group in São Paulo Bloomberg brought back some of his 2007-vintage language.

Said the mayor in his speech:

“The intense burning of fossil fuels in the world’s cities – where 70 percent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions are produced – not only contributes to climate change, it also clogs the streets, pollutes the air, and shortens the lives of their millions of residents. How we as mayors respond to these challenges will strongly determine the fate of the entire world, now and for decades to come.”

Bloomberg, the current chair of the C40 project, was there to announce the release of two studies and a new partnership between the coalition of big-city mayors and the World Bank.

The first study created a shared greenhouse gas reporting system for the C40 cities, allowing high-quality comparisons for the first time. The 42 C40 cities that participated were responsible for 1.2 billion metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions, it found, roughly equivalent to the emissions of Japan.

Numbers like that fed into what at times seemed to be a bit of urban policy triumphalism on the part of the mayors. “Because of our shared experiences in leading the world’s great cities, and because, more than anyone else, we grasp the urgency of the challenges we now face, no one can do more to produce good outcomes for the world than we, the mayors of great cities, can,” said Bloomberg.

While the prominent artist Ai Weiwei is currently detained in China, in New York City his artwork is drawing attention to his plight.

On Tuesday at the Pulitzer Fountain in Manhattan, New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg said it was a bittersweet honor celebrating the opening of Ai’s sculpture exhibition—given that the artist is detained by authorities in China and his whereabouts are unknown.

[Michael Bloomberg, New York Mayor]:
“Today we stand in solidarity with the millions of people around the world who hope that Ai Weiwei is quickly and safely released. And we stand in solidarity with the billions of people who do not have the most fundamental of human rights, the most cherished of all American values, and the most valuable of all New York’s riches, and that is free expression.”

Ai lived in New York for more than a decade, and studied at Parsons School of Design. 

http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_china/2011-05-05/new-york-mayor-michael-bloomberg-calls-for-release-of-ai-weiwei.html