Today, the stakes for answering these questions are high. Over 60% of Americans live in cities, and young people are flocking to them in record concentrations . Globally, by 2050, the UN estimates that 6.5 billion people will live in cities, double the current number. In the US, cities are at the forefront of tackling climate change, making local commitments on banning plastic bags, introducing municipal composting and shifting to solar energy. If the states are the laboratories of democracy, then the cities (if you’ll permit the extended metaphor) are the petri dishes. They are where the experiments, messy and evolving, actually take place.
In the coming weeks, VICE Impact will be taking a closer look at the experiments unfolding in these cities — their successes, failures and contradictions alike. But to begin to answer that crucial question — what makes a city sustainable — we began with a survey of the biggest ideas and most urgent issues in environmental urban design today…”
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All of the cities in the world are the biggest reason for the temperature change. Roads and highways as well. One volcano erupting does as much damage to the earth as if you were able to leak freon out of every A/C, repeated every day for ten years.
]]>Glenn Kristi They are part of the reason. The other part of the reason is because it is inefficient to truck or fly loads of food, produce, and materials across the country to get to cities. So that is why vertical farms and urban farms are part of the solution. Another big part of the reason is because of cars and transportation within cities, which is why electric cars and self driving networks are part of the solution. Another big reason is yes, because of ACs and freon and whatnot, which is why they’re working on technologies and methods such as greening and foresting the outsides of buildings as a natural insulation as part of the solution. It is actually more efficient when populations are dense, if they can figure out how to be sustainable, which is part of the solution. And that, Glenn Kristi, is what this article and series are about…the solutions.
]]>I like the forestation of buildings idea.
]]>I don’t see why we can’t come up with an idea to use volcanoes as an energy source. Somehow also to create ways to regulate pressure from them to atleast make an eruption not so intense and toxic. I have a very strange idea in the works, but I’m not through with it.?. I know a way and its so simple. A hint. Its already put into use on a small scale.
]]>Glenn Kristi I truly hope and look forward to one day posting an article about it here.
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