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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My Sustainable City
If I was a mayor of a sustainable city, the first action I would make would be to make sure that all waste is being either deposed properly or reused. I think that a lot of the resources we throw away can be used as materials in my city. For example, pizza boxes are commonly thrown in the recycle when they have food remnants on it, making it unable to be properly recycled. In my city, all pizza boxes should be thrown in the compost so that it can be turned into fertilizer. This fertilizer will be used to grow all of our food so we won't have the cost and carbon emission of imported goods. In addition, my city would have a plastic ban. National Geographic explains that 40% of plastic production is packaging. To reduce this, all the materials and food would be made near or in our city.