Thursday, November 01, 2007

US Mayors Meet in Seattle

U.S. mayors meet in Seattle to push for a green revolution

City has met a big goal, but more action is needed

By LISA STIFFLER
P-I REPORTER

Fluorescent bulbs were climate change activism on training wheels. For the next generation, it's time for a green revolution, for overthrowing the old order and ushering in the new, environmental and local elected leaders say.

They talk about a campaign as passionate as the civil rights movement, as nationally unifying as World War II patriotism. They're talking put-a-man-on-the-moon-sized investments in the development of clean energy. They want strict standards for vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions. They're begging the public to pressure national politicians to champion ambitious efforts to curb global warming.


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