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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Making cities more sustainable
What makes a city sustainable? Sustainable cities are designed to lessen the environmental impact on the earth by taking efforts to offer eco-friendly alternatives to your everyday life. One of the most effective ways to improve the sustainability of a city is to encourage and raise the use of public transportation (buses, trains, etc). This benefits the environment by reducing the number of private vehicles being used (and can reduce CO2 emissions by 45%). In the US, it is estimated that an annual amount of 37 million metric tons of CO2 is saved by the use of public transportation. To continue to see this decrease of environmental impact, we need to encourage the addition and use of these transportation options in cities.