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Smog, traffic, countless cars: Los Angeles strives\u00a0to re-frame itself as a sustainable city.\u00a0As Slate<\/em> recently reported<\/a>, L.A. has\u00a0a bad rap for being environmentally-unfriendly.\u00a0In early April, the governor announced California’s first mandatory restrictions on water use, and Mayor Eric Garcetti\u2019s new sustainability \u201cpLAn\u201d\u00a0outlines a number of goals, including removing coal from the city\u2019s energy portfolio and diverting the majority of waste from landfills by 2025.<\/p>\n

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A skyline hindered by smog. Image from TravelingOtter<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n

How does a city become more sustainable? In Los Angeles, there have been a number of improvements already. Officials note the\u00a0city’s population has grown by over 1 million in the past three decades, but L.A. uses the same amount of water. L.A. is investing in public transportation, and from\u00a02005\u20132009, the metro area became more compact. Two-thirds of new housing\u00a0was built\u00a0on previously-developed land.<\/p>\n

L.A.\u2019s changes can serve to inspire \u201cother not-so-green cities,\u201d reports Slate<\/em>. The city \u201cstarted out as very strange, unlike the urban model found in Europe and the Northeast. And then it became more normal, as other places were similarly built around the automobile, subdivisions, and strip malls.” L.A. is\u00a0becoming denser, more transit-centric, and less like the recognizable spread-out suburb that defined it.<\/p>\n

Sustainability is also a persistent buzzword outside of L.A., and there\u2019s plenty of inspiration to draw from, too. The City of Angels might take some cues from Vinge, a newly designed sustainable city in Denmark. The city north of Copenhagen\u00a0is\u00a0designed around a train hub in the city center. Vinge is imagined as an interconnected city, with 4,000 work sites near residences, sports centers, public areas, schools, and other buildings.<\/p>\n

As Railway Technology<\/em> reports<\/a>, a transit-centric city has the power to connect, not split, residents. “Train stations and tracks often divide the city in two. The main thing in this design was to link the two sides of the city. You then get a city that’s connected with life going on in both parts – there’s no bad south side or good north side,\u201d said Niels Edeltoft, Vinge project director.<\/p>\n

“The station is a symbol of a city that’s connected,\u201d Edeltoft continued. \u201cThe challenge was to make this station part of the landscape and not just a bridge crossing the rails. We made the station so that nature and landscape merged together with the city’s urban features. It’s a greenfield site turning more into an urban space around the station but still with its green elements. It’s a mixture of nature and urban space.” The city plans also include a “Green Zone,” which incorporates gardens, city parks, natural wetlands, and recreational areas in the city center.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Pope Francis is addressing the greater issue behind sustainability \u2014\u00a0climate change \u2014\u00a0on a grander scale. Pope Francis held a climate change summit at the Vatican last week with United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon. The “Green Pope”\u00a0is also working on a major statement on the relationship between people and the Earth, to be released as soon as June.<\/p>\n

As the National Journal notes, Pope Francis “has framed climate change as a moral issue, highlighting its impact on the poor.\u201d Earlier this year, Pope Francis\u00a0also clarified matters for climate change disbelievers, saying\u00a0in the Philippines \u201cclimate change was \u2018mostly\u2019 man-made,\u201d and that \u201c[I]n great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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