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Sustainable city

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This is a discussion forum associated with the International Student Carbon Footprint Challenge (ISCFC).

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. What would that city look like? Would that make you more likely to want to live there?
 
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matteo rodondi, May 29, 2013

hi guys my name is matteo and i live in italy.
We have enough food to feed everyone in the world. World hunger is a problem that doesn’t need to exist. This is a much bigger immediate problem than one’s carbon footprint. but it’s possible remove the hunger from the world? have any ideas?

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matteo rodondi, May 29, 2013

hi guys i’m matteo and i live in italy!
I recycle my trash and I think it is a necessary job for every citizen. But many people in their daily life don’t have time to wash glass or plastic bottles and remove their labels off or they are to lazy to put glass, paper and plastic into different bags or just to find recycling containers outside. this attitude has to be changed if we want to have our earth clean.

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Alessandro C, May 29, 2013

Hi guys!
I live in a small village in the mountains in the north of Italy named Edolo. Here we use hydroelectric energy and for heat my house I use a lot of diesel oil. I use to heating my house for six month per year because from October to march the temperatures are really cold. I’d like to install many solar panels in my house for reduce pollution. My village isn’t big and there aren’t any factories so the pollution isn’t very high. I think the pollution in the big cities is an important problem that can be resolved with some little sacrifices from people that live in these cities.

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domenico pedrotti, May 19, 2013

HI everyone
I live in Malonno, the small town in the mountain valley called Vallecamonica. Where I live the pollution is not as bad as in big cities because we have many forests. Here,the most serious form of pollution is represented by visual pollution due to the presence of overhead power lines . I think the solution to visual pollution could be the use of power lines underground.
I’d like know what do you think about this problem.

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domenico pedrotti, May 19, 2013

HI!
My name is Domenico Pedrotti, i’m 16 years old. I am a student at IIS Meneghini to the secondary school in Edolo, a small mountain village in the north of Italy. My total carbon footprint is 7642Kg CO2 per year, in the Italy the average footprint is 8181 Kg. I always go to school by car with my mum because she works in the hospital near the school while I go back home by bus.
My results are:
Transport: 1120
Home: 3850
Food: 2461
Purchase: 211

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federico cappellini, May 16, 2013

HELLO! My name is Federico and I live in the north of Italy. I think that a great way to get closer to a sustainable city is the production of clean energy; for example everyone should install solar panels. In my home we use this type of energy productions and I must say that in addition to helping the environment we save a lot of money.
I hope that one day this will come true for all people.

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Ale M, May 16, 2013

hi everyone!
In many places of the world, people are using CO2. Even though people are trying to help save the world, most people do not make a lot problem help the earth and create less CO2, reduce purchases, to use public transport, to eat organic foods, and not heat or cool homes as they often do normally.

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elisabetta chanel, May 16, 2013

Hi my name is elisabetta and I’m from Italy. I am attending a school for building technicians, I’ll be a surveyor and I’m interested in sustainable architecture. With this kind of building you can save environment and costs
I think it is going to be the future in the building’s field. I would like to know what do you think about this topic.

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Davide A, May 15, 2013

Hi, I’m Davide, I live in Italy. My carbon footprint about transportation is very high because in my town there aren’t a lot of public transportation; there aren’t many buses, there aren’t underground stations and there is just one train. I live in the mountain and I use heating six months a year. People in my town use to recycle. I use electric energy and natural gas in my house, I haven’t got any solar panels. All cars work by petrol fuel and they pollute a lot! The mountain is cleanest than city! Have you got any suggestions to decrease my carbon footprint?

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  • Andrea Bonomelli Andrea Bonomelli May 15, 2013
    to lower the consumption of energy for transport to walk or cycle for short trips is a very useful thing.
  • Davide A Davide A May 15, 2013
    thx Bono

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giorgio c, May 15, 2013

Hi , I’m Giorgio ,I live in a small town , the carbon footprint in the category of transportation is very high because there aren’t many public transport so people mostly use their personal car ,I think the mountain area where I live is quite polluted because the ski resorts can have a strong impact on the environment because people who go skiing every weekend provoke air pollution their cars.

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