San Francisco Urban EcoMap
Cities create 80% of global carbon emissions. As we move from educating people about climate change to taking action to mitigate climate impacts, we need innovation to help spur a shift to climate-friendly social behavior in cities. Urban EcoMap helps address this objective. Begun in fall 2008, this pilot project is a collaborative effort involving Cisco and the City and County of San Francisco.
San Francisco is the first city worldwide to introduce the Urban EcoMap. On Earth Day 2009 (22 April), Mayor Gavin Newsom launched the Urban EcoMap pilot in San Francisco. The web-based tool will will be made available to the general public at the Connected Urban Development conference in Seoul, 21st May 2009.
Through its partnership with San Francisco, CUD has created a global best practice—Urban EcoMap—that will provide new climate-change services to cities. It will be replicated across other CUD cities and scaled around the globe.
Urban EcoMap amasses information on a neighborhood level, organized by zip codes, in the following two ways:
- Discover Your City’s Neighborhoods
- Take Climate Actions
In the future, the Urban EcoMap San Francisco will address mobile applications, user-generated content, and access to real-time information pertaining to personal energy usage, transportation, and consumption behavior.