{"id":165578,"date":"2010-01-11T10:56:59","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:56:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skyscrapercity.com\/showthread.php?t=1043187"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:56:59","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T15:56:59","slug":"going-green-in-your-city-share-your-ideas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/165578","title":{"rendered":"Going Green In Your City Share Your Ideas?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>As yuppie as that sounds can you come up with possible ideas for your city or other cities that you know very well that help change the way we live in a positive light? Has your city government at all come up with recent plans not only for global climate change but the absence of global resources? <\/p>\n<p>New York City: Remains the largest public transit population in the country and recently now with the conversion to hybrid taxis have helped make some change but there is still room for change such as more rail connection and more options for public transit. Such as a maglev high speed rail line connecting JFK to Grand Central Terminal. More public transit to large beaches that were meant mainly for cars(Jones Beach). Building a freight tunnel under New York Bay to connect Brooklyn\/Read Hook with New Jersey. Vertical farms in places like Williamsburg where many condos were built but have remained unoccupied. A law that would give single family homes incentives for using solar panels on there roofs. As well as using wind power in places such as the Long Island Sound.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles: With the largest compressed gas bus fleet in the county along with the highest rating of cars per person new technologies and ideas such as car sharing and cleaner cars have helped bring air quality to much cleaner rates. Still there are other ways that LA can be sustainable like New York city there should incentives towards the use of solar panels as well as with the introduction of artificial grass in Las Vegas the same can be done in LA to help save what&#8217;s little left of the nearby aquifers. Other ideas such as large wind filters that would stand several hundred feet could help clean the air and process it and later the dry compounds could be used as some sort of landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Share your ideas?<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As yuppie as that sounds can you come up with possible ideas for your city or other cities that you know very well that help change the way we live in a positive light? Has your city government at all come up with recent plans not only for global climate change but the absence of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}