New York Times: When people consider the prime sources of carbon gas emissions in New York City, cars, trucks and buses belching smoke are often the first culprits to come to mind.
In fact, homes and offices spew far more carbon into the atmosphere than all motor vehicles in the city combined. Some 75 percent of all carbon emissions in the city come from the buildings.
Using that sometimes surprising fact as a starting point, the nonprofit Urban Green Council has outlined a series of measures that it says...