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Despite the fact that Gladsaxe is centrally located and close to Copenhagen, there are many green areas and opportunities for nature experiences in Gladsaxe, such as Aldershvile Slotspark, Bagsværd Sø, Fedtmosen, Hareskoven, Smørmosen, Store Hareskov og Utterslev Mose.
With the Green Transition Strategy, Gladsaxe City Council sets the direction for how we will tackle the green transition locally and contribute to limiting climate change towards 2030.
Gladsaxe is a suburban city in The Greater Copenhagen Area. The city's work on climate adaptation connects to a strong political ambition to make Gladsaxe a vibrant city in growth.
Gladsaxe is a green suburban municipality consisting of mixed residential neighborhoods, larger social housing areas, business areas and several small shopping centers. Despite the short distance to the capitol of Copenhagen, Gladsaxe offers several attractive, recreational green areas and opportunities to experience nature.
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
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Not only does Amsterdam have many “green” attributes, but the Netherlands’ capital also has ambitious sustainabledevelopment goals and an eco-friendly culture that embraces meat-free dining, doing away with plastic use and reducing carbon emissions. And cycling is the city’s main mode of transportation! Sometimes referred to as the “Venice of the N...
The environmentally-friendly and culturally rich “City of Music” was home to Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. Vienna is not only known for its cultural history, but for being pretty darn green as well. The stately city boasts a sharing system of more than 20,000 rental bikes for visitors and locals to ride. It als...
Singapore is known as the “Lion City,” an apt name for a tropical island that is the greenest city in Asia. Singapore is dedicated to sustainability, and that includes having strict codes for green building that have been in place since 2008. All existing buildings are required to meet a green building certification specifically for tropical climat...
One of the greenest cities in Europe, more than two-thirds of Stockholm’s population either walk or cycle to work. Renewable energy sources provide more than half of residents’ electricity in Stockholm, and the city has energy efficiency standards for buildings. “Stockholm is surely an urban planner’s dream. Everything works. Everything looks good,...
You’d be hard-pressed to find a more unique place on Earth than Iceland. To begin with, 11 percent of the country is made up of glaciers. Reykjavik is the capital and largest city with about 60 percent of the population of the entire country living there. Renewable energy is standard in the land of fire and ice, with geothermal sources and hydropow...
Not only is Paris one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, it’s also becoming a leader in eco-friendly practices. The City of Light’s current mayor, Anne Hidalgo, has been implementing green policies around the city, with a plan to make Paris the greenest city in Europe by 2030. For starters, about 900 miles of bike lanes have been put...
Berlin is a walker’s dream, with plentiful parks and public gathering spaces. This capital city brimming with culture and creativity is considered the green capital of Germany. “Berlin is a city of leafy boulevards, grand Neoclassical buildings, world-class art, glitzy shopping arcades, and funky graffitied neighborhoods with gourmet street food,” ...
Since the 1970s, Curitiba’s city council has been furthering green policies through subsidies and tax cuts. Residents have planted 1.5 million trees along the highways, and the city has a Bus Rapid Transit system, which it pioneered. The city of nearly two million is regarded as the most liveable city in Brazil. Its ample green space also makes it ...
One of the greenest cities in the United States and the world, San Francisco not only started the “eat local” movement, it’s the home of one of the first grassroots environmental organizations in the country, the Sierra Club, which was founded in 1892 by a group of Californians and the Scottish-American naturalist and conservationist John Muir, who...
An unsung hero of the list, the capital of the U.S. has many green attributes, including an abundance of parks and public plazas, like 1700-acre Rock Creek Park. Established in 1890, the park has a nature center, offers horseback riding lessons and has wooded trails to explore on foot or horseback. Among the many sites at the National Mall, the U.S...
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Feb 20, 2019 · Canada’s 10 Greenest Cities. by Susy Alexandre. February 20, 2019. We’ve searched country-wide to bring you 10 of the greenest cities in Canada. Focused on sustainability and environmental consciousness, these 10 cities get top marks for their green initiatives and commitment to lessening their overall environmental impact.
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Sep 29, 2022 · Gladsaxe is a smallish Danish town of about 68 thousand residents. Yet, recent analysis shows that in that municipality alone, every year some 11,500 tonnes of food end up in the bin – food that could’ve been eaten.
