During EarthDay, the Urban EcoMap provided a number of commentaries, from Cisco, the City and County of San Francisco, citizens of the city, and other media outlets:

Quotes:

“Urban EcoMap in San Francisco provides residents, businesses and our city as a whole with much-needed tools to reduce our carbon footprint. With our city’s effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 20 percent by 2012, we are pleased - and think it’s apropos - that Cisco selected San Francisco as the first city in the world to launch Urban EcoMap.” - Gavin Newsom, Mayor, City and County of San Francisco

“Because cities produce 80 percent of GHG emissions worldwide, they present the largest opportunity for innovation and social behavior changes. Citizens want to see the collective results of their individual climate-change actions.” - Simon Willis, vice president, global public sector, Cisco IBSG

Feature articles:

Zapping Greenhouse Gases, One Zip Code at a Time

The Environmentally Conscious City by the Bay

Video Blogs: by Mayor Gavin Newsom and Nicola Villa from Cisco IBSG.

Return to www.urbanecomap.org on the 21st May. In the lead in to then, join the online discussion there, on Twitter, Facebook and The Connected Republic.

In addition, the following media commented on the EcoMap during the day;

22nd April 2009,

Cisco Launches Carbon Emissions Map, First In San Francisco Earth2Tech

Web site to track SF green neighborhoods ABC News

Cisco, San Francisco launch Urban EcoMap San Jose Business Journal

Cisco’s “EcoMap” To Give San Franciscans Carbon Footprint Bragging Rights, Guilt Trips GreenTechMedia

 Net tool tracks carbon footprint by ZIP code San Francisco Chronicle