{"57531":{"#nid":"57531","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Atlanta Announces Municipal Carbon Footprint to Measure Emission Reductions","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp class=\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003E\u003Cem\u003EForbes\u003C\/em\u003E - March 17, 2009 (Reuters, \n\u003C\/p\u003E\nAtlanta\n Business Chronicle, etc.)\u003Cbr \/\u003EToday Mayor Shirley Franklin released \n\nAtlanta\n city government\u0027s first report on greenhouse gas emissions as the first step towards the goal of reducing emissions in the city seven percent by 2012. Also known as the \u0022carbon footprint,\u0022 the figure was calculated with the help of a student-faculty team from the Georgia Institute of Technology and establishes a baseline to measure progress in \n\nAtlanta\n\u0027s sustainability efforts.   \u0022The City of Atlanta\u0027s greenhouse gas emissions in 2007 came to 540 thousand metric tonnes, which is equivalent to the household energy use of 150,000 \n\nAtlanta\n residents or 98,000 passenger vehicles,\u0022 said Valerie Thomas, Anderson Interface Associate Professor at the Stewart School of Industrial and Systems at Georgia Tech and primary author of the report. \u0022Having conducted an inventory and committed to reducing emissions makes the City of Atlanta a leader in the state and region and well ahead of federal action on climate change.\u0022  \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/feeds\/businesswire\/2009\/03\/17\/businesswire122085851.html\u0022\u003ERead more\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u0026gt;\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-03-17 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-03-17T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"57458","name":"ISyE External News"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}