Portal:Sustainable city living

Highlighted Sustainable city living page
Deidre's vertical vegetable garden - An overview of these stacked gardens, with a detailed how-to.

With intelligent choices, you can be a truly sustainable city dweller.

Sustainable city living is about personal as well as societal choices, in the shape of our built environment as well as our habits. It includes transport, water use, and building design, as well as our food choices.

You can be significantly greener in the city than living in the suburbs or outside town. than if you lived in the leafy suburbs or on a hobby farm.

Many of the biggest factors are the choices we make as communities, especially through our governments - as discussed at Sustainable cities. Being active in our communities, and advocating intelligent green choices in strategic decisions is one of the best things we can do.

Appropedia is a wiki, so you can create and edit content to share information and collaborate with others on how to live sustainably in the city, and as an urban society.

Category tree ▼ Sustainable cities ► Carfree ► Cycling ► Living roofs ► Melbourne ► Public transport ► Sustainable buildings ► Sustainable cities members ► Transition Towns ► Urban agriculture ► Urban informatics

Sample pages Green Manhattan Transition Towns Hammarby Sjöstad, Sweden Rainwater urban design and infrastructure Carfree Benefits of cycling Mass Transit Folding bike seat Lazy gardening Balcony gardens Sustainable agriculture in New York City

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Get involved Appropedia is a wiki, so you can edit and share information and collaborate with others to lighten our ecological footprint and live richly, in harmony with our environment. You can start contributing after you create an account or log in if you have an existing account.

You also can join the sustainable cities members of Appropedia. Just copy and paste the following (including brackets) code into your userpage: {{User Sustainable cities}}