Everybody seems to love the rooftop garden at City Hall, and Mayor Daley is proud that Chicago leads the country in LEED-certified buildings. But as a new book argues, those are hardly the sorts of things that make a city green.
Yesterday JPMorgan Chase moved to increase its presence in the carbon trading and carbon offsets business, another sign that Congress is sure to pass some kind of climate change legislation.
Chicago stands to benefit from a cap-and-trade carbon emissions market via the Chicago Climate Exchange, and the environment might as well. But it's worth taking a skeptical look at the plan.