Move to the city and reduce your carbon footprint by 70%
Study shows that moving to an urban environment may be the single greenest thing you can do.
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As someone who got seriously stuck in mega tractor trailer truck traffic outside of NYC at midnight on a Sunday night a while back, I'm wondering if the bean counters attributed food (and All the other goods city consumers consume) such as production, manufacturing, processing, packing and trucking costs to the rural side of the ledger when figuring a city dweller's relative light carbon footprint...???? But, after all, even a few days with no supplies coming in = no food = no city viability.... More
food production and importation from rural areas. rooftop gardens are important to help people remember how food grows and to add green spaces, but won't feed cities. And you can't have farmers living alone in the middle of hundreds of acres--they need communities too. So I'm more than happy to do my part conserving resources in the city (and gardening in my back yard) and be thankful that there are others with the patience and wherewithall to grow enough food for me and my neighbors.
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As urban areas become larger due to overpopulation, carbon emissions increase (more goods such as food, clothing, consumer items have to be brought into the stores. As a farmer, I used to move around on foot or bicycle, reused empty bottles, produced compost, used wind and solar power. City dwellers definitely leave behind a larger carbon footprint!
