Inestment UnderGround: Though not the first municipality in California to require solar panels, San Francisco is by far the largest city in the state to institute the requirement and the first major city in the United States to do so.
The Better Roofs Ordinance, introduced by supervisor Scott Wiener, is expected to add 50,000 solar panels and avert 26.3 million tons of carbon dioxide annually-equivalent to emissions from 5,000 cars driven for a year-just based on construction already in the pipeline, according to the...