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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Copenhagen, Denmark and their Sustainable Habits
Copenhagen, Denmark is currently the number one sustainable city in the world. They use advanced technology to monitor the buildings energy and water flow. They have vending machines around town that receive plastic bottles for funds that one can either keep or donate to charity to encourage recycling. They use shared resources by participating in district heating and cooling. The power plant used to power the heating and cooling uses biomass to fuel it, while above the surface citizens can ski during the winter or enjoy the paths that sit atop. Pocket parks and rooftop gardens help control urban heat island effect, which cause the cities temperatures to rise. They have a superhighway for cyclists that have traffic lights that are synced to their pace. there are 546 km of bike paths that connect multiple cities. What the city has done was made it convenient for the people. Twenty-four percent of people eat organically because it is more affordable and available.
They continue to discover new ways to live sustainably. The hotels practice sustainable habits by using the dryers only when it rains outside, compost all food in the kitchen, and refuse to give out any single use plastics. Check out their practices here:
https://www.wonderfulcopenhagen.com/won … copenhagen