10 Things You Didn’t Know You Could Buy Reusable. Las 5 ciudades más autosustentables en el mundo. Miles de ciudades alrededor del mundo se han unido a un movimiento verde que ha tomado fuerza durante los últimos 10 años, cada día con más seguidores.
Con innovadores programas de reciclaje e iniciativas sencillas que son fácilmente replicables en otras partes del mundo, los siguientes lugares se han convertido en ejemplo a seguir en materia de ecología y cuidado de nuestro medio ambiente. Con motivo del Día Internacional de la Tierra y con el fin de que su ejemplo sea una inspiración para todos, te presentamos las 5 ciudades más autosustentables del mundo.
Copenhague, Dinamarca En esta ciudad más del tercio de la población utiliza la bicicleta para ir y volver del trabajo y están buscando que, para el año 2015, el porcentaje suba al 50%. Cuenta con uno de los niveles más bajos de emisiones de CO2 en el mundo y se espera que se convierta en una ciudad neutral de este contaminante para el 2025. San Francisco, EUA Vancouver, Canadá Reykjavik, Islandia Melbourne, Australia. Una bici cambia el mundo.mp4. Mexico City's bike revolution.
20 February 2012Last updated at 14:26 By Ignacio de los Reyes BBC Mundo, Mexico City On Sundays, cyclists and pedestrians have the city's main avenue to themselves Families riding bikes, children on roller skates and barely a car in sight; it's hard to believe this is usually one of the busiest roads in Mexico City.
It's an eerily calm Sunday morning on the city's Avenida Reforma, an avenue which is grid-locked on weekdays by tens of thousands of cars sitting bumper-to-bumper. The Reforma's closure to car traffic on Sundays in 2007 kickstarted the capital's attempts to make life easier for cyclists. In 2010 a 17km-long bike lane through the city opened - and more efforts to promote pedal power are being unveiled in the coming few months. The car still reigns supreme in this metropolis of 22 million people, with more than four million vehicles clogging the roads every day. Bike rental Perhaps the biggest factor has been the launch of the so-called Ecobicis (Eco-bikes) in 2010. “Start Quote. La lenta belleza de las plantas. The Vertical Farm Project - Agriculture for the 21st Century and Beyond. De Homo consumus a Homo responsabilus.
Programa de Acción Climática de la Ciudad de México. Earthbag Construction. The Rise of Urban Farming and Other Varieties of Sustainable Ag. Chinese Government Will Control Rain, Generating 10 Percent More... China‘s boom in industry and population has put a strain on its natural resources – not to mention the health of the environment – over the past few decades. In order to alleviate the stress of growing crops for an ever-increasing population, the government is intervening with nature by rolling out four regional programs to artificially increase precipitation across the country by 10 percent before 2015. The program, which was included in the newly released 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-2015), is anticipated to bring in an additional 230 billion cubic meters of precipitation per year. This is on top of the 50 billion China already artificially creates annually in the northeastern province of Jilin.
Each year, an average of 3 trillion cubic meters of water passes over China in clouds, and only 20 percent of it falls to the ground, according to the China Meteorological Administration. “Because clouds are boundless, weather control is boundless. Via Popular Science and China Daily.