Your world. Cities around the world are Going green

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Steve Ember
Shirley Griffith
EXPLORATIONS
VOA Special English
The Kyoto Protocol
The United States
the United States Conference of Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement
The Natural Resources Defense Council
Smarter Cities
Boston
Massachusetts
New England
Logan International Airport
Austin
Texas
Chicago
Illinois
an Urban Heat Island Mitigation Project
Washington
D.C.
“Skip the Bag, Save the River.”
New York City
the East River
Portland
Oregon
Oakland
California
The Cleantech Group
North American
The United States Green Building Council
Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED)
the National Association of Homebuilders
the United States Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy
the Energy Star program
Americans
Greensburg, Kansas
the 5.4.7. Arts Center
Planet Green
The United Arab Emirates
the Masdar City project
World Wide Fund for Nature’s One Living Planet
BioRegional
Abu Dhabi
Masdar Institute
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge
Dana Demange

reduce
inventive
efforts
governments
save large amounts of money
energy costs.
their citizens
environmental issues.
an international agreement aimed
the release of harmful gases
two thousand five
mayors
agreed to sign their own version
Local
suggestions
to urge
communities
goal
two thousand twelve
might work
include
quality
the reuse of materials,
web site
divided into large, medium and small
to produce
wind turbines
around the city
Both
urban heat islands
surrounding rural area
dark colored roofs
absorb heat
Air conditioners
the inside of buildings
the increased temperatures
generating hot air outdoors
improve
planting more trees
rewarding businesses and individuals

reflective roofs.
black tar roof
control the amount of rainwater
city’s waste system
urban heat islands
three hundred thousand square meters
a leading city
rooftops.
Stores charge people a five cent tax
reusable bags.
renewable energy source
Experimented
using waves
permission
thirty river turbine devices
recycle over half of the waste
nation
safe bike paths
free parking spaces
Recharge
hydrogen-powered buses
release zero pollution
five times more than
a major issue
homeowners
solar power systems.
Investors
clean
increase
nonprofit
estimates
release
harmful gases equal to what thirty million cars would produce. And, it says Americans saved seventeen billion
tornado windstorm destroyed
completely powered
a step further
goal
carbon pollution
renewable
slowed
twenty sixteen
will be completed in stages
completely carbon-neutral.
partnership
Experts