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Sustainable City

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 Materials List & Suggestions

Electro

Hi. Here are the few materials that I have found that could be useful in future sustainable building. Please comment and reply if you have any ideas or suggestions about the materials.

1. Hempcrete - A sturdy and energy efficient material, could be a replacement for concrete, which costs a lot of gravel and stone to create. Hempcrete is very durable and lasts hundreds of years.

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2. Bamboo - As one of the fastest growing woods used in construction, bamboo can be harvested in 1 ~ 5 years. It would serve as a great replacement for wood and cutting down trees.

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3. Cork - Giant cork blocks provide as a significant material for building. Easy to produce, light, durable, and reusable.

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4. Steel - A very recyclable yet extremely durable, commonly used in foundations and support beams, steel can be recycled indefinitely without losing quality, which makes it a extraordinary sustainable building material.
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Electro

whoops. what is wrong with the last image?

ill put another image of an example of a steel building here...

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Sophie_autumn

Another eco-friendly material that you could add to the list is straw bale. After the seeds have been extracted from grain harvests, the stalks are what are used to make straw. Straw may be used as mulch, animal bedding, food for livestock, and as part of a compost pile. This may seem like a weak material to build things, but when there's a lot of this straw stuck together it can make a building. It's dried out and it works well to build things.

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Here is another eco-friendly material that can be used to build sustainable and eco-friendly homes. This eco-friendly material is sheep wool. Sheep wool can be used to cover the tops walls, side walls, and windows during cold seasons, instead of using heaters. Room heating and cooling accounts for 38% of family housing's greenhouse gas emissions in the US. Even though using heaters does not create pollution itself, the electricity used to make the heaters work does cause pollution. The coal (fossil fuel) is burned which sends harmful gases such as nitrogen oxides (NOx) and carbon dioxide (CO2). here is an example of a house covered in sheep wool.

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