Green cities worldwide

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My son, Garrett, is a volunteer (translation = nonpaid) contributing writer for an online teen magazine and is doing a report on green cities as travel destinations.

Since there are so many international (and, in the case of Flyinfree, intergalactic:D) members on this forum, please let me know what cities you feel are the greenest in your country. By green, I think Garrett is looking for what cities have good water and air quality but also work very hard to maintain their environment through recycling programs, mass transit, tight regulations, etc.

Oh, and let's not make this a political thread (so we don't need to rehash the Kyoto Protocol ;)).

In the US: San Francisco and Gainesville, FL (I went to school there and lived there), come to mind, but most college towns are similar to Gainesville.
 
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, CANADA.
I think this is a green city.
By the way, is it rare to find a place where you can drink the lake water because of how clean it is?
 
Does it have to be the entire city? We do small things here. For example, I get paid $3 to not get to work by driving in a car myself. I usually ride my bike or carpool.
 
we have seperate bins for carboard/paper, bottles, and junk. Is that the norm?

Not sure about air cleaness, pretty sure almost all major cities have at least some smog, its inevitable.
 
New Zealand is pretty big on the clean green sustainability thing so yeah. Clean green places round here are invercargill, queenstown, ruatoria, mahia, and all of the coromandel pennisula. Waimarama (why-muda-ma) (where I live) are pretty green.
 
NBS 4life said:
New Zealand is pretty big on the clean green sustainability thing so yeah. Clean green places round here are invercargill, queenstown, ruatoria, mahia, and all of the coromandel pennisula. Waimarama (why-muda-ma) (where I live) are pretty green.
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I had heard all about NZ's green policies, but I didn't see it in Auckland where I spent 3 days in '06. Would you say the south island is greener than the north? It seems like there was quite of bit of destruction in the north island - lots of exotic trees, agriculture, etc. Are those cities you mention in the north or south?
 
g8r80 said:
I had heard all about NZ's green policies, but I didn't see it in Auckland where I spent 3 days in '06. Would you say the south island is greener than the north? It seems like there was quite of bit of destruction in the north island - lots of exotic trees, agriculture, etc. Are those cities you mention in the north or south?
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Well they are half and half, the south Island is much colder than the north island, they southern alps are down there and the air is known to be some of the cleanest air in the world. Its just beutiful down that way. Queenstown is probably the nicest down there alongside gore and bluff (bluff oysters)

I live in the north Island about half way down. Where I live is so clean. You can drink water from any tap and have no trouble there is virtually no polution because I live in a small town called waimarama which is in the greater region hawkes bay.

As for auckland, everyone that doesnt live in auckland hates the people that do. Aucklanders are known for their arogance and superiority complex. You havent actually met a Kiwi unless you have been out of auckland. Auckland isnt all that clean either. At the risk of sounding racist the ammount of polynesian and cookislanders up there dont really help the look as they litter alot and contrribute to pollution alot also.

I'll tell you what if you ever come to New Zealand send me a pm and I will show you what green New Zealand is really like.
 
This is a picture of where I live, I am literally just to the left of this picture probably about 100m from the sand. If I was an olympic sprinter I could run there in less than 10 seconds. There are also two other beaches nearby that I can paddle round to either on kayak or knee board. Its a pretty nice green place to live.
 
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