Green Inc:

The Portland City Council passed a Climate Action Plan last week. The 70-page document establishes 93 action steps, including curbside pickup of compostables and an expansion of the city’s streetcar system, that are to be taken to reach emissions-reduction goals.

“This is a revolutionary plan, so far ahead of our previous two efforts,” Mayor Sam Adams said in a telephone conversation after the vote. “We know it won’t be easy, but we know it must be done.”

In 1993, Portland became the first city in the country to adopt a carbon emissions reduction plan, and in 2001, along with Multnomah County, the city passed a Local Action Plan on Global Warming.

“Each plan was based on what was then the cutting edge of scientific knowledge,” Mr. Adams said. “We believe the same can be said of this one.”

Here is the plan: