Ithaca is hell-bent on achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. But can it actually be pulled off?
town that would be at the forefront of the climate revolution, and Berkeley is probably top of mind. But the real action is happening more than 2,700 miles away, in snowy Ithaca, New York.
The city has one of the most aggressive climate plans in the country, with a goal of achieving carbon neutrality by 2030. It’s using a unique public-private partnership to decarbonize its 6,000 buildings in what could be a model for how to electrify cities. If all goes according to plan, residents across Ithaca will wake up on a late-spring morning in 2030 not unlike this one. They’ll cook a quick breakfast on their induction stoves before taking theiror electric cars to work or school.
Luis Aguirre-Torres, the city’s former sustainability director, says when it comes to taking the municipal decarbonization plunge, “somebody has to go crazy first.” And he, at the behest of former Mayor Svante Myrick, was the somebody who jumped into the deep end trying to figure out how to make Ithaca’s Green New Deal a reality.
The city has already secured a line of funding to help get the program off the ground and a private program manager to oversee the electrification scheme. Acting city sustainability director Rebecca Evans says the city would love to have a ribbon-cutting on its first all-new electric building by Earth Day this year. There have been hurdles that may make that goal a stretch, but getting the money piece right was a huge step in the right direction.
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