Mayor Bloomberg announced on Monday his plan to spend $2.3 Billion over the next nine years on making the city’s government more “green”.  The plans would include firemen and policemen to use hybrid vehicles to reduce emissions and fuel costs.  In addition the lighting throughout the city will be replaced with more environmentally friendly lightbulbs.  Newer flourescents use less mercury than older flourescents, and the latest LED lightbulbs use even less energy, and contain no toxic chemicals.

Another part of the plan is to build around 400 greenspots across the city.  One of these spots is the former Staten Island landfill which will be transformed into a 2200 acre word class park.

Although this all comes at a cost to the taxpayers, it will help reduce the energy used by the NYC government which currently amounts to 6.5% of the total power consumed.  Bloomberg is targeting a thirty percent reduction in the cities greenhouse emissions by 2030.