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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Sustainable City-Prices based off of a product´s carbon footprint
I think it could be helpful if pricing was based off of carbon footprint (lower impact=lower price). This would encourage consumers to be more conscious of how much pollution is caused by the products they use, as well as providing an incentive to go for the product that has a lower carbon footprint, improving their own. Items with a lower carbon footprint would become more popular, thus manufacturers invest in safer practices. Each company would have to fill out a form (similar to the one on this site) to find the carbon footprint both for general practices and for each product. There would then be price guidelines based on carbon footprint, cost to make and how essential it is. Companies who are following the guidelines on yearly checkups get bonuses.