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Former President Clinton to appear at City Hall
Daily News Wire Services
Updated: 02/16/2009 07:35:25 AM PST
Former President Bill Clinton will join Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at City Hall Monday to unveil what is being billed as the largest light-emitting diode street light program undertaken by a city.
Over five years, the city will retrofit 140,000 of its residential street lights with energy-efficient LED lights, an aide to Villaraigosa said. The project is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 40,500 tons and save $10 million annually, the aide said.
Clinton began the Clinton Climate Initiative in August 2006 in an effort to fight global warming. The enterprise is an implementing partner of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, an association of large cities throughout the world, including Los Angeles, that have pledged to accelerate their effort to reduce greenhouse emissions.
"The solution to the climate crisis isn't far off in the future -- it's in the buildings we inhabit, our civic infrastructure and the way we organize our lives," Clinton said at the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference in Chicago.
Clinton's visit to Los Angeles comes a day after the C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey which ranked him 15th among the 42 men who have served as president, up six spots from a year ago. Clinton was ranked third in economic management and fourth in pursing equal justice for all, but 37th in moral authority.
Former President Clinton to appear at City Hall
Daily News Wire Services
Updated: 02/16/2009 07:35:25 AM PST
Former President Bill Clinton will join Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa at City Hall Monday to unveil what is being billed as the largest light-emitting diode street light program undertaken by a city.
Over five years, the city will retrofit 140,000 of its residential street lights with energy-efficient LED lights, an aide to Villaraigosa said. The project is expected to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 40,500 tons and save $10 million annually, the aide said.
Clinton began the Clinton Climate Initiative in August 2006 in an effort to fight global warming. The enterprise is an implementing partner of the C40 Large Cities Climate Leadership Group, an association of large cities throughout the world, including Los Angeles, that have pledged to accelerate their effort to reduce greenhouse emissions.
"The solution to the climate crisis isn't far off in the future -- it's in the buildings we inhabit, our civic infrastructure and the way we organize our lives," Clinton said at the 2007 Greenbuild International Conference in Chicago.
Clinton's visit to Los Angeles comes a day after the C-SPAN 2009 Historians Presidential Leadership Survey which ranked him 15th among the 42 men who have served as president, up six spots from a year ago. Clinton was ranked third in economic management and fourth in pursing equal justice for all, but 37th in moral authority.