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What Others Are Doing
Others in the county are doing their part, too, to stem the affects of global warming. Here are just a few examples:
- In 2004, the Beczak Environmental Education Center on the Hudson River in Yonkers, with the help of the state, county and the City of Yonkers, opened a 3,800-square-foot riverfront interpretive center. With a sandy beach and its own tidal marsh just steps away from the building, Beczak provides the community with an indoor and outdoor classroom where young and old alike can “touch the river” and learn about the natural world.
- The Pace Law School Energy Project, highly regarded throughout the world in the fields of energy conservation, alternative energy sources, and sustainable energy, is working with the Town of Greenburgh in its “Greening Greenburgh Campaign.” This is a model program to develop and implement an aggressive geographically targeted energy efficiency and conservation initiative, which includes an effort to educate local residents, businesses and institutions about cost-effective opportunities to save energy. The Town has also passed landmark legislation requiring that all new residential construction less than four stories high in the town meet strict Energy Star® standards.
- In the summer of 2007, Morgan Stanley announced it began retrofitting its new offices in Purchase with the New York metropolitan area’s largest ice storage energy efficient air conditioning system. It is estimated that the system will reduce peak energy usage and reduce overall electrical usage by 900,000 kWh and reduce the site’s overall fuel consumption by 15,000 MMBtu. It is said this would be equivalent to planting 1.5 million trees to absorb the carbon dioxide emissions avoided during one year or removing 271 automobiles from county roads. (The county uses this system at two of its White Plains office buildings.)
- The Katonah-Lewisboro School District will retrofit 100% of its 54-vehicle school bus fleet with diesel particulate filters and will purchase two new large school buses also equipped with diesel particulate filters. The implementation of this retrofit program will help the school district reduce the air pollution from its buses by 85% and thus significantly reduce the harmful health effects of the school bus emissions.
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Global Warming Plan 
