This document discusses ways that cities can become more environmentally friendly. It suggests improving green spaces and parks, promoting urban farming, encouraging recycling and buying long-lasting products, adding green roofs, and improving public transportation through expanding access and converting vehicles to alternative fuels. Public transportation is highlighted as reducing gas usage and carbon emissions compared to personal vehicles.

1. Cristina
Larisa
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ENVIRONMENTALLY
FRIENDLY CITY

2. HOUSING
• Open space and natural features:
• Improve aesthetics and recreation.
• Jacksonville has 103,000 acres of green space,
including plenty of parks and activity centers.

3. HOUSING
• Seattle has 75 miles of trails.
• Grassroots initiatives : start a farmer´s market
or local community, plant an habitat garden to
accommodate local wildlife and unite communities
and create a carshare or organized carpool to
conserve gas.
• Urban farming: dirt beds can be put almost
anywhere, foodprint makes up 21% of our carbon
footprint.

4. HEALTH
• We can encourage recycling and buy long -lasting
quality products. They can re-use, for example,
the gowns.

5. WATER AND SANITATION
• Green roofs : build more dirt beds for greenery,
they look good and reduce both pollution and
temperature.

6. TRANSPORT
• Add / improve public transportation:
• 2011: 10,4 billion public transportation trips,
• 2,3% increase from 2010, second highest ridership since
1957.
• Ridership in towns under 100.000 people rose more 5,4%.
• Buses using alternative fuels fewer than 1 in 10 in 2000 to
nearly 1 in 3 in 2009.

7. TRANSPORT
• Public transit saves: 4,2 billion gallons of gas per
year and 20 Ibs , of CO2 emissions per person
per day.
• Convert from heating oil to natural gas: gas burns
cleaner than oil ej. NYC plants to eliminate each
use of heating oil by 2030.
• Convert to electric vehicles reduce footprint,
battery performance rivals gasoline, electric cars
may use 40-60% less petrolium than gas vehicles.