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?
Sustainable City >
Reflective Roofs
One key aspect of a sustainable city would be having solar reflecting roofs. According to an article published by Michigan State University "Replacing 80% of conditioned roof area on commercial buildings in the U.S. with solar reflective material would offset 125 MMT CO2...equivalent to turning off 31 coal power plants."
Santiago- that's very interesting. Is this a backup solution in case solar panels are impractical or too expensive?
wow that seems like It would really help reduce emissions if we can start installing those quickly. But do the reflective roofs provide power in return?
I definitely agree with this statement. Solar reflecting roofs would make a huge positive impact on the climate. The one issue I see with this though is the cost of the solar panels because I believe they are quite expensive to have installed. Overall though I believe a switch to more solar roofs would be great for the environment.