Thread by @TimeOutNewYork

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We don’t want to point the finger, but cities have a lot to answer for when it comes to #climate change.

If we are to go some way to undoing the damage humans have inflicted on the world, then real change is going to have to happen in massive cities like #London, #Tokyo, #NewYork and all the rest.

Here are 21 bright ideas from around the world that could help us preserve our lush metropolitan lives for centuries to come.

📍 #Bogotá is going on a bike-lane-building spree

📍#Barcelona is banning cars from entire ‘superblocks’

📍Durban is changing lives with free cooking bags

📍Milan is being transformed into an urban forest

📍Paris is going car-free (in the center, at least)

📍Tallinn has made all public transport free

📍Basel is planting wildflowers on every flat roof

📍Tokyo is showing other cities how to cool the eff down

📍Amsterdam is embracing a funny-named economic model

📍Austin is 3D-printing an entire neighborhood

📍Copenhagen is urging locals to grow their own food

📍Vancouver is making big buildings out of wood

📍Curitiba has trained an army of 7,000 ‘bee guardians’

📍Buenos Aires is powering homes with landfill

📍Freiburg is leading the way on eco-friendly design

📍Hong Kong is making energy-efficient skyscrapers

📍Helsinki is helping people go out better

📍Ulaanbaatar is educating the masses with outdoor art

📍London is issuing ‘green bonds’ to fund rewilding

📍Vizag is showing the world how to do conservation

📍Kigali is getting Africa’s first eco-neighborhood