While creating my sustainable city I would focus on lessening the practices in society that add to our carbon footprints. I would increase the number of areas that subways, trains and other forms of public transportation could reach while creating assessable carpool locations throughout the city where two or more people could share a ride to where they need to go. Additionally, I would make bicycle lanes on the sides of roads to emphasize the ability to use other forms of transportation instead of vehicles, while making it an easy alternative to cars. By doing this, I would provide options for transportation other than vehicular which would lessen the city’s carbon footprint as one of the car’s emissions are carbon dioxide. Other than creating alternative forms of transportation I would form parks around the major freeways and public transportation stops. By doing this the plants in the park, as carbon sinks will absorb the carbon dioxide created by the mass amounts of vehicles.

The Sustainable City you have created is a beneficial one for both society and the environment at the same time. I fully support and back the decisions made by logical and thoughtful reasoning. The encouragement of local and communal transportation is well thought out. Not only does Carpooling decrease the amount of combustion within the carbon cycle, it also focuses on the environment as a community, rather than being changed by individuals. Using bike lanes also encourages an awareness, something that is not very common when most cities are based on profit. Your explanatory use of both sources and sinks in your reasoning makes one of your cities the most plausible, and highly likely to benefit the environment in a healthy way.

I believe your sustainable city is very helpful to decrease the carbon footprint. I agree with how you chose to decrease the number of cars and increase the lanes for bicycles and modes of public transportation. Decreasing the number of cars and increasing the number of bicycle lanes are very good because you would be promoting people to decrease the carbon footprint in the city. By doing this people would be motivated to do so.