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Mayor DaleyThe Greening of City Hall
Most people believe urban communities are steel, dirt, concrete, and they don't look at the environment, so what I'm trying to do is bring greening and green technology to our great city. When we talk about sustainability of a city we're really talking about the environment and getting everyone in this city to recycle their waste material whether you're in a home or an apartment, a business or a residence and from there it's about the water -- the rainwater coming down, so you can use it in a rain barrel to green your home, to look at the material you're using to repair your home and look at the construction material. So sustainability is bringing the environment into an urban environment that is all concrete and steel and say we're here to stay. Community Involvement
It requires us to look at our transportation, our buses, our cars, requires us to look at businesses, and how they need to do more landscaping, putting more trees in to clean the air up, the air has to be clean when you have a nation so dependant on oil, so then you have to look at solar energy, you have to look at windmills, you have to participate in international committees dealing with the environment and especially local committees. When I think about cities lost and found ... cities were lost, people moved out and created urban sprawl. I tell people, if you look at Chicago, thank God we've got skyscrapers, we would have destroyed more farmland if we'd taken all the people in these skyscrapers and set them down on the land. We'd be all the way to Iowa by now. |
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