Abu Dhabi is the Arab world’s top green city

Who’s recycling more and “trashing” less? Smart Green Travel visits the top green cities and few runners up who have made the most impressive strides toward eco-friendliness and sustainability. Factors are air, the climate, our health, the landscape and the habitat.

When a city accepts as a mandate its quality of life; when it respects the people who live in it; when it respects the environment; when it prepares for future generations, the people share the responsibility for that mandate, and this shared cause is the only way to achieve that collective dream.

These metropolises aren’t literally the greenest places on earth — they’re not necessarily dense with foliage, for one, and some still have a long way to go down the path to sustainability. But all of these cities deserve recognition for making impressive strides toward eco-friendliness, helping their many millions of residents live better, greener lives

Some of what you’ll hear on this weeks Smart Green Travel include:

• Five years after Katrina, New Orlean’s Ninth Ward is most likely now the greenest neighborhood in the world
• Oslo, Norway’s buses run on fuel generated from human waste
• London has set stiff taxes on personal transportation to limit congestion in the central city, hitting SUVs heavily and letting electric vehicles and hybrids off scot-free.
• Copenhagen is now the first Scandinavian city to put a mandatory green roof policy into action
• Austin, Texas, for it’s artistic flare that has made this one of the most “livable” cities in the country
• Boulder, Colorado named the thinnest city in America
• San Francisco opens bike paths on Market Street and citywide that are continuous and do not peter out
• Oakland’s Oaksterdam surpasses Holland. I’ll explain in Part 2 of this episode of  Smart Green Travel

Part 1    run time 26 minutes

Smart Green Travel with Jerry Hart

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Part 2   run time 26 minutes

Smart Green Travel with Jerry Hart

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Guests

Gill Minerzine
City of Sydney Australia Tourism

Andy Thornly
Director
sfbike.org

MaryAnn Mahoney
Director
Boulder Tourism Board

Dan King
Zero Waste Hotel Founder
Boulder Outlook Hotel

Jennifer Walker
Director
AustinTexas.org

Diana Simon
Outreach Specialist
sfenviroment.org

Clare Jones
Director
Oaksterdam

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