{"id":3527,"date":"2020-10-21T03:16:52","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T03:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/?p=3527"},"modified":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T14:01:36","slug":"which-buildings-in-pittsburgh-emit-the-most-greenhouse-gases-see-how-they-compare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/which-buildings-in-pittsburgh-emit-the-most-greenhouse-gases-see-how-they-compare\/","title":{"rendered":"Which buildings in Pittsburgh emit the most greenhouse gases? See how they compare."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"byline\"><strong><span class=\"by-author\"><span class=\"author vcard\"> <a class=\"url fn n\" title=\"Read All Posts By Oliver Morrison\" href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsource.org\/author\/oliver-morrison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"author noopener noreferrer\">Oliver Morrison<\/a> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"sep\"> |<\/span> <time class=\"entry-date updated dtstamp pubdate\" datetime=\"2020-10-19T06:30:44-04:00\">October 19, 2020 | Public Source.<br \/>\n<\/time><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pittsburgh\u2019s biggest challenge to meeting its climate change goals is to <a href=\"https:\/\/projects.publicsource.org\/pittsburgh-climate\/within-four-walls-pittsburgh-climate-problem-starts-indoors.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from its buildings<\/a>. Buildings in the city produce four times as many emissions as vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>The city\u2019s most substantial effort to do something about it was released last month: It made public <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsource.org\/pittsburgh-climate-change-emissions-buildings-benchmark-greenhouse-gases-energy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the energy use of the city\u2019s largest buildings<\/a>. The hope is that transparency will encourage building owners to invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, we are publishing a map of where these emissions are coming from to help readers understand, across the city, neighborhood-by-neighborhood, which buildings emit how much.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest source of greenhouse gases by building type are the hospitals and universities that drive the city\u2019s economy. But collectively <a href=\"https:\/\/infogram.com\/emissions-by-sector-1hkv2nk7qr0n2x3?live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the city\u2019s many office buildings emit more<\/a>. And some buildings, such as parking garages, use a lot of energy per square even though they don\u2019t use as much energy overall.<\/p>\n<p>Full Article and map <a href=\"https:\/\/www.publicsource.org\/which-pittsburgh-buildings-reported-the-most-greenhouse-gas-emissions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">HERE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pittsburgh\u2019s biggest challenge to meeting its climate change goals is to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from its buildings. Buildings in the city produce four times as many emissions as vehicles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":3528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-greenhouse","category-pa_pgh_news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/world.350.org\/pittsburgh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}