Bloomberg Announces Division of Sustainability for New York City

In a May 2006 announcement before the New York League of Conservation Voters, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a new Division of Sustainability that will operate within the Mayor’s Office of Operations. Bloomberg’s announcement, in which he called sustainability “a philosophy of realistic optimism,” follows his 2004 creation of a task force on sustainability and October 2005 legislation that sets standards of sustainability for municipal construction projects. The division’s mission will be to formalize policies of sustainability as integral to growth and development, Bloomberg said.