See May 30, Sceintific American online "Which U.S. Cities Contribute Most to Global Warming?"
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=which-us-cities-contribute-most-to-global-warming
as well as "Shrinking the Carbon Footprint of Metropolitan America"
http://www.brookings.edu/papers/2008/05_carbon_footprint_sarzynski.aspx
First paragraph: "If you care about reducing your emissions of greenhouse gases, then you might want to move to Honolulu, Los Angeles or Portland, Ore., according to a new study from The Brookings Institution. These three metropolises boast, respectively, the lowest three per capita levels of world warming pollution (read: carbon dioxide) in the nation's top 100 metro areas." (Emphasis added)
Key points in above:
A New Federal Approach
Federal policy could play a powerful role in helping metropolitan areas-and so the nation-shrink their carbon footprint further. In addition to economy-wide policies to motivate action, five targeted policies are particularly important within metro areas and for the nation as a whole:
- Promote more transportation choices to expand transit and compact development options
- Introduce more energy-efficient freight operations with regional freight planning
- Require home energy cost disclosure when selling and "on-bill" financing to stimulate and scale up energy-efficient retrofitting of residential housing
- Use federal housing policy to create incentives for energy- and location-efficient decisions
- Issue a metropolitan challenge to develop innovative solutions that integrate multiple policy areas
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