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The world's greenest cities

INSTALL A SOLAR ENERGY SYSTEM YOU MIGHT BE THE ONLY ONE WITH LIGHTS ON.

This nations and all other nations electric power grid is something most all of us think will never fail. Larger storms are putting more people without power in the dark every year worldwide.

One event not from a storm like the 2003 blackout on the northeast coast of the United States that took place. That event left over 50 million people in the United States and Canada and many from all other nations that were visitors to America in the dark for days. No TV or Radio for many. Many went without water to their second floor or beyond. Many had no running water at all. For the first time electronic banking stopped on the east coast of America. Many will never forget the telephones did not work. Most all transportation came to a halt no traffic lights, and gas stations no electric power to pump the gas
pumps. The smell of sewage was everywhere in the inner cities. For the first time millions of Internet Users vanished off the internet till in January of 2011 in Egypt Government Censorship.
Now except for a few smart ones that had a backup generator till there fuel ran out. Most of them only think the power would be out for a day or two 24 to 48 hours. A few had enough fuel for longer put not many. Hospitals and Shelters were the only lights on in all the cities up and down the east coast at night. They had Natural Gas Generators or Diesel with large storage tanks.
Perhaps the only ones you can call really smart were the ones with a Solar Energy System their lights were a Lighthouse Beacon to all around. Their lights were on every night and the gate and garage door remotes still worked. Even more the food in their icebox was still good.

Now being the director for safety many times in my life i would say the owners of the ones that had a Solar Energy System really did care for their family.

There will be many more times the Power Grid will go down be safe not sorry.

Renewable Energy is the way to go Wind, Hydro, Geothermal and others. Solar is clearly leading the way worldwide.

All should look to install a Emergency Backup Power. SOLAR and Wind.

GOD Bless
The Lord's Little Helper
Paul Felix Schott

How can a city be called "green", when the air is toxic to breathe, and causes many hundreds of deaths yearly, and many more than that wounded, in all of the cities mentioned?

Why worry about CO2 (what we breathe out), when the toxic soup is actually what we breathe in! A third of the population with cancer...where the heck do you think it comes from? Not from CO2, that's for sure!

We need to stop the burning of fuels in city limits...period!

Plasma-based technologies released in the next few months will make that possible, finally. Then perhaps we can truly call cities green.

Most large American Cities will NOT be appearing on the Green Cities list.
They include: NYC, New Orleans, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Memphis, Dallas, Miami and Houston.
They're run by anti-Green mayors who care more about getting re-elected and much less about unremoved, disease-laden wastes piling up on their taxpaid streets, sidewalks, parks and waterways.

I was surprised to read that Copenhagen has passed a law requiring that all new buildings have green roofs, so I checked, and found that it hasn't.
I contacted Lykke Leonardsen, who is Head of Strategy for the City of Copenhagen's Technical and Environmental Administration. She said that:
It is true that Copenhagen wanted to have regulations demanding that all new building with a slope lower than 30 degrees had to have green roofs. However national legislation actually prevented such a regulation as the Danish Planning Law at the time did not permit a general regulation like that.
She added that: But the politicians are still very keen on green roofs and new projects are always met with an enquiry on the possibility for green roofs. And the government has just recently changed the national planning legislation making it possible for municipalities to have demands on climate change adaptation measures etc. in new projects.
We need a more sustainable built-environment, but sloppy reporting doesn't help the general case.
Rod Sweet
Editor
Construction Research & Innovation

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