These recycling bins were spread around the National Mall area, making it easy to do the right thing.
While hundreds of thousands of people arrived in D.C. via Metro, a very green thing to do, many others hopped on a bicycle -- the most carbon free transportation option besides walking. The District Department of Transportation set up a bicycle corral for those arriving with their own bikes. Capital Bikeshare set up a bike corral for those choosing the bike sharing option.
And for the first time in history, bike lanes on Pennsylvania Avenue greeted inaugural parade participants, including the First Couple, who got out of the presidential limo to walk along the Pennsylvania Avenue bike lanes.
Here is President Obama addressing climate change in his speech:
We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations.
Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms. The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition. We must lead it.
We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries. We must claim its promise. That’s how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure, our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That’s what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared
Here's to an even greener 2017 inauguration!
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