{"613504":{"#nid":"613504","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Marilyn Brown Leads Atlanta to Win $2.5 Million\u00a0American Cities Climate Challenge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFormer New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that Atlanta and Seattle have\u0026nbsp;been awarded the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/marilyn-a-brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was instrumental in efforts to win the Challenge for\u0026nbsp;Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;Atlanta\u0026#39;s Better Building Challenge, Energy Benchmarking, and 100% Clean Energy goals were among the many initiatives hailed as evidence of the city\u0026#39;s leadership in climate readiness and mitigation. With the new funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, Atlanta will continue to launch innovative pilot projects and policies, and I\u0026#39;m hopeful that some of these will engage Georgia Tech students and faculty,\u0026rdquo; she said.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBloomberg praised the both cities for their commitment to reducing air pollution and city-wide emissions creating programs aimed at reforming their transit and building sectors. As a winner, Atlanta is\u0026nbsp;accepted into a two-year acceleration program with access to new resources and cutting-edge support that will help the city\u0026nbsp;meet or beat their near-term carbon reduction goals, technical assistance and a support package that is valued up to $2.5 million per city.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EBloomberg lauded\u0026nbsp;Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms and Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkin\u0026nbsp;for their commitment to ambitious climate action and securing a cleaner, safer, and healthier environment and economy for their citizens.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe School of Public Policy is a unit of the Georgia Tech Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EClick the link to read the article on the American Cities Challenge:\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.bloomberg.org\/press\/releases\/seattle-and-atlanta-first-winners-american-cities-climate-challenge\/\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/www.bloomberg.org\/press\/releases\/seattle-and-atlanta-first-winners-american-cities-climate-challenge\/\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFormer New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that Atlanta and Seattle have\u0026nbsp;been awarded the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge.\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003EGeorgia Institute of Technology School of Public Policy\u003C\/a\u003E Regents and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems\u0026nbsp;\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/marilyn-a-brown\u0022\u003EMarilyn Brown\u003C\/a\u003E\u0026nbsp;was instrumental efforts to win the Challenge for\u0026nbsp;Atlanta.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Former New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg has announced that Atlanta and Seattle have been awarded the Bloomberg American Cities Climate Challenge."}],"uid":"27167","created_gmt":"2018-10-30 16:42:33","changed_gmt":"2018-11-05 16:38:44","author":"Rebecca Keane","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2018-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2018-10-30T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"587452":{"id":"587452","type":"image","title":"Marilyn Brown (2017)","body":null,"created":"1487169749","gmt_created":"2017-02-15 14:42:29","changed":"1487169749","gmt_changed":"2017-02-15 14:42:29","alt":"Marilyn Brown","file":{"fid":"223884","name":"Marilyn Brown 2017.jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Marilyn%20Brown%202017.jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Marilyn%20Brown%202017.jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":186226,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Marilyn%20Brown%202017.jpg?itok=J_1yl964"}},"612720":{"id":"612720","type":"image","title":"American Cities Climate Challenge","body":null,"created":"1539586589","gmt_created":"2018-10-15 06:56:29","changed":"1539586589","gmt_changed":"2018-10-15 06:56:29","alt":"","file":{"fid":"233249","name":"ACCC-Logo.png","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ACCC-Logo.png","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/ACCC-Logo.png","mime":"image\/png","size":12412,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/ACCC-Logo.png?itok=qM43jqwv"}}},"media_ids":["587452","612720"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"}],"categories":[{"id":"151","name":"Policy, Social Sciences, and Liberal Arts"}],"keywords":[{"id":"330","name":"Marilyn Brown"},{"id":"179281","name":"American Cities Climate Challenge"},{"id":"213","name":"energy"}],"core_research_areas":[{"id":"39511","name":"Public Service, Leadership, and Policy"}],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ERebecca Keane\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDirector of Communications\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nrebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n404.894.1720\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["rebecca.keane@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}