USA Cool cities

Many USA of cities realized how dangers the global warming problem is and started to do something to help solving it without waiting for the government to take actions These are examples of some cool cities in the US and what have they done.

In Klamath Falls, Oregon, a geothermal district heating system keeps the sidewalks clear and dry .

Seattle - reduced its own global warming pollution by more than 60 percent by constructing green buildings and operating alternative fuel vehicles.

Washington, D.C - replaced 414 of its polluting diesel buses with cleaner burning, compressed natural gas buses.

Iowa - first municipal utility to install its own wind Turbines.

Salt Lake city, Utah - saves over $32,000 a year on its energy costs as a result of installing 861 light emitting diode (LED) traffic signals.

Houston, Texas – all vehicles will become hybrid by 2010.

Twin falls. Idaho – schools increased their energy efficiency which caused to reduce the cost by $3.5 million.

Columbia. Missouri – working to produce 10% of their electricity with clean energy like wind and solar power by 2015.St

Fort Collins, Colorado – use renewable energy such as wind and solar which is now producing 15% of the city’s electricity

Paul, Minnesota – Warm the buildings using District Energy’s energy-efficient combined heat and power (CHP) system.