Ariella Maron on Sustainability in NYC
We had a chance to interview Ariella at the Sustainable Operations Summit in Monterey, California.
Thanks to SOS for letting us attend and to everyone who sat down with us.
Ariella Maron, Deputy Director for New York City’s office of Long Term Planning & Sustainability, believes that living in New York City is one of the most sustainable choices a person can make. The average New Yorker produces one-third the greenhouse gas emissions when compared to the average American citizen. With smaller personal footprints and with more transit oriented communities, the density of New York is scaled such that its planners and citizens are forced to consider the social implications of sustainability.
Maron plays an integral role in developing and implementing Mayor Bloomberg’s PlaNYC 2030 master sustainability plan. This includes a number of different initiatives, from catering to local green businesses and entrepreneurs, to making New York City’s streets more pedestrian-friendly to reducing building emissions and energy consumption.
By being so close to businesses and industries every day, Maron believes that New Yorkers are quicker to innovate and understand the concepts of sustainability sooner. With little pockets of green designers and manufacturers sprinkled across the five boroughs, Maron believes that the growing number of New Yorkers will see more and more sustainable solutions in their communities and the City as a whole.
Curtiss P. Martin grew up in a geodesic dome on the side of a mountain in Southern Appalachia. Now he serves as ScribeMedia's clean technology editor in a tall building in downtown Manhattan.
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