GREEN LIVING

Unit 3: The green goverment

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OVERVIEW OF OLSO VANCOUVER AMSTERDAM
GREEN LIVING
01 OVERVIEW OF GREEN
LIVING

Green living means making

sustainable choices about what we
eat, how we travel, what we buy and
how we use and dispose of it. We
can implement sustainability in our
work place practices, and by
greening the building we inhabit.
Our everyday choices can creat a
sustainable lifestyle. By My Tam
 Sustainable development includes
green living.
- Green living as behavior or
lifestyle in which each individual can
control his or her choices to help
sustain a healthy environment
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Some big factors in creating a green home lifestyle include:

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Contributing Reducing
as little our use of
waste as 02 power and
possible. water

Eliminating
toxic
substances.
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Green lifestyle helps balance,

conserve and preserve human
culture and communities with the
Earth’s natural resources, habitats
and biodiversity.
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02 OLSO - NORWAY

Oslo’s reputation as a green city is due to a lot

more than its many parks and surrounding
forests. Urban planners, politicians and
businesses of different kinds all work hard to
reduce Oslo’s carbon footprint and ensure a
sustainable future for everyone.
FIRST: SUSTAINABLE CITY PLANNING

Oslo is one of the fastest

growing capitals in Europe,
has been a lot of large
construction projects over
the last few decades.
Sustainability has been a
guiding principle for many
of them.
SECOND: CAR-FREE URBAN LIVING

Though their initiative “Car-

free city life”, the local
government has closed
down street parking and
limited traffic to make room
for bikes, benches, green
lungs block parties and
other things that make
people happier and the air
cleaner
THIRD: GREEN ENTREPRENEURSHIP

In addition to the large-scale

efforts of city developers and
politicians, Oslo is full of
smaller projects and businesses
that do their part in making
Oslo a greener city.
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By Nhu Y
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Urban planning, green building in Vancouver:

* Vancouver has become the city with the lowest per capita greenhouse gas emissions of any major city in North
America.

* Vancouver runs on over 90% renewable energy, thanks to the city’s large supply of hydroelectricity.

* Vancouver today has a vast network of buses, trolleys, rail, commuter shuttles, and even SeaBus routes.

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Using hydroelectric power in Vancouver

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Transportation
system
in
Vancouver
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Vancouver’s Green initiatives:
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Around 95% of Vancouver's electricity is

supplied by renewable energy.

Vancouver was the first major city in North America

to commit to 100% renewable energy of their energy
production and comsumption needs.
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Sustainable Transit in Vancouver.

Pedestrians and Vancouver requires

cyclists are a priosity all new condos in
in Vancouver, the city the city have
features over 279 electric vehicle
miles of bike trails. charging stations.

Vancouver’s next goal is

to have 66% of all trips
made by walking,
cycling, or public transit
by 2040.
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Pedestrians and cyclists

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Electric vehicle charging stations

04, AMSTERDAM -
NETHERLANDS

By Quynh Tram
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1. First: Get about by bike

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Total bike use in Holland is estimated to be the equivalent of
880 Km
each Dutch person pedalling some 880 km per year.

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Amsterdam has around 500 km of bike lanes covering
550 Km
alsmost every corner and canal in the city.
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Using bicycles in Amsterdam

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2. Second: Zero CO2 emissions

Amsterdam aims to be the first European city to achieve zero CO2 emissions by 2050.

The most polluting vehicles will also be restricted from accessing certain areas of the city.
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3. Third: Tasty leftovers

In their environmentally friendly

Amsterdam establishment, meals are
all made with leftover food, so it ends
up on your plate instead of in the bin.
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In the last 4 year, the instock

Restaurant team estimates they’ve
saved a total of 480,000 kilos of food
from being wasted
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