Super Sustainable city?
A few more thoughts about sustainability...as mentioned in my last post. It is hard to avoid considering sustainability in Göteborg right now, the city, Chalmers, The University and other creative forces in this city ar pushing for change. The photo above is from a building site on the Lindholm campus of GU and Chalmers. If you look carefully you can see solar panels on the construction trailer--they are there to power the crane in the construction process! The sign says: Here we shape a sustainable future at Lindholm. The sign below says: Chalmers, for a sustainable future (Chalmers is the large technical university in Göteborg).
Lindholm, by the way, is a part of town that used to be the heart of the shipping/ship building area...now it is a tech park and a waterfront neighborhood. The crash of the shipping industry left this space to be reconstructed as a new part of the city: (a view of the solar powered crane)
A group of artists, architects and engineers have put together a project envisioning a sustainable Göteborg by the year 2050. Check out this blog site for more info. and imagery:
http://supersustainablecity.blogspot.com/2009/02/vision.html
or
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qC8f2aQItHk&feature=player_embedded#!
It is exciting to get inspired here by what I am seeing with the hope of contributing to Duluth and UMD's efforts back home.
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