I realize that many of these goals are ambitious and long-term, but I don’t think we can afford to think small on the environment. We all know that the more our government involves community leaders and activists, the better any policy initiative becomes, so I mean it – please give me your comments, advice, stories, proposals, etc. I welcome all of them. If you’d like to learn more about these proposals, you can view a video of my introduction of the Green Agenda to the City Council and visit my website www.connollyforboston.com for more details. Thanks, and I look forward to your comments.
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p>Councillor Connolly, what vehicles are you talking about here? If you are talking about school buses, then I wonder, given your support for neighborhood schools, and given Superintendent Johnson’s proposal to increase the number of school zones from three to five, why a better answer isn’t simply to have fewer school buses.
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p>Of course the city has other vehicles in the fleet, but since it costs the City $70 million to operate the school bus fleet, I am confident this must be the single largest element of the fleet.
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p>That’s not to say that hybrid school buses aren’t a good idea on their own, but why spend the money in a tight budgetary climate where you could reduce emissions simply by decreasing the size of the fleet, and thereby advance another part of your agenda for the City?
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p>TedF
Connolly seems to be the most “green-friendly” voice in Boston these days, I hope he keeps it up.
Lets say you could just for a moment hypothetically consider the case that CO2 turns out to be effectively a non-issue for climate or anything else. Would your green agenda still be green?
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p>(Or, Bring on the denier-bashing!)
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Please make more readily available the stenographic machine record of public meetings of our Boston City Council.
If Canadian geese,wild turkeys and grounghogs are “in season” or not.
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p>Another problem is how best to relieve oneself not within the confines of the house you got evicted from. Such things put you on the sexual offender list.
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p>Lastly many prophets of the future tell us that bicycle tires should be bought now as there is a real shortage after the holocaust starts.
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p>It’s a tax and it all goes to Bernie Madoff types.