Here's your chance not just to be the mayor, but the original city planner as well! Imagine a medium sized city that would be developed with modern, low carbon transportation in mind, and other strategies to reduce the average citizens' carbon footprints.
What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
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Sustainable city
My city would have everything very close together so you can walk and bike instead of driving or other transportation. We would also entirely use wind, solar and hydro power to reduce the carbon emissions.
I think cities that have stores, etc. closer together would be able to start using bikes and walking more, because they can get to places they need to go easier. In the suburbs, or further outside cities, it would be harder for people to not use cars, so I think they would produce more CO2 emissions.
Cities could alter the way things are built to be closer meaning more places in walking or biking distance to prevent carbon emissions from everybody using cars, along with supplying areas to bike and places to rent bikes.
Wind turbines are extremely loud so no one wants to live near them, that's why they build em' in the oceans. The problem with solar energy is that you can't store the energy that it produces, meaning that if you run a house fully on solar panels, you would have zero energy at night.