Last month, Forbes Magazine released a list of the “25 cleanest cities” based on the following criteria:
Sanitation
Energy production and consumption
Waste management (landfills, recycling)
Transportation infrastructure
Logistics infrastructure
Air quality
Water quality
Ground quality
To view the list, click here. Calgary placed first!
This is puzzling: How can Calgary be the cleanest city based on the criteria above?
Calgary's electricity comes from coal plants;
Calgarians use 3 times the amount of water than the average Austrian;
There are two (!) places in Calgary (one of which is Ikea) where you can recycle batteries;
City recycling does not include plastics;
City recycling does not include composting;
Unless you are on one of the two lines of the LRT, public transportation has lots of room for improvement (e.g in my case: driving to work 25 - 40 min; cycling to work 45 min; taking public transportation to work 60 -90 min).
makes me wonder...
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I had a look at the other world's cleanest cities and the reliability of the list should be questioned when cannot get its facts right. It has determined that Montreal is seat of Quebec's government. Well, ... maybe not. In addition, has one seen the brown pallor over Calgary on some winter mornings? I wonder what the world's dirtiest cities look like?
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