green cities Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:54:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 The 10 Greenest Cities in the US https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greenest-cities-top-10/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greenest-cities-top-10/#respond Sat, 17 Oct 2015 15:54:47 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56996 Appearance isn’t everything. The current concept of a green lifestyle has more to do with the products you buy than actual fossil fuel output. Of course, it’s impossible to calculate all your neighbors’ carbon footprints (and you would get the police called on you), but there’s no denying that a lot of people who are […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/greenest-cities-top-10/feed/ 0 56996 Bosco Verticale in Milan – One Step Closer to Become World’s First Vertical Forest https://www.greenoptimistic.com/milan-bosco-verticale-20130201/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/milan-bosco-verticale-20130201/#respond Fri, 01 Feb 2013 15:53:16 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=32469 The Italian city of Milan is among Europe’s most polluted; so much so that in order to forestall damage to da Vinci’s The Last Supper, city officials had to put up a ventilation system in 2009. The city’s air is so bad that limits set by the EU are frequently surpassed, with one medical student […]

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