10 City of the World's Most Environmentally Friendly

Here are 10 City World's Most Environmentally Friendly, cities are the most environmentally friendly in this world are the best cities in terms of keeping their environment better and make the city be always green and lush and can reduce levels of pollution and of course very convenient for inhabited.

1. Reykjavik (Iceland)


Iceland is the greenest country in the world. City of Reykjavik has expressed his desire to become the cleanest city in Europe and has taken an impressive step to achieve that. Currently, the city of Reykjavik is run entirely on systems that are environmentally friendly, including the use of geothermal power plants and hydroelectric power to meet its electricity supply, while the city's transportation system entirely using hydrogen fuel.

2. Malmo (Sweden)


It was amazing to see how the city is very friendly environment. Besides being the city of Malmo is Sweden's largest city. This city really offers concepts that are environmentally friendly in every corner of the city.

3. Copenhagen (Denmark)


Copenhagen is a city where citizens-citizens are very aware of environmental issues and they prefer to use motorcycles instead of cars. That is one clear reason why Copenhagen became one of the greenest cities in the world.

4. Vancouver (Canada)


Unlike other cities in North America, Vancouver has done many things in order to get to the environmentally friendly city. 90% of that energy comes from renewable sources, like wind, tidal waves, solar and wave energy, other than that the city also has developed a plan for 100 years into the future to keep the beauty and hospitality environment, although this city in fact already has more than 200 parks.

5. Bahia de Caraquez (Ecuador)


Bahia de Caraquez is a paradise for tourists. The city suffered severe damage due to natural disasters in the era of the 90s and after that the local government and NGOs decided to create an environmentally friendly city. They developed a number of programs to maintain biodiversity and erosion control, they also began a program of composting organic waste from markets and households. In addition, the city is also full support for organic agriculture.

6. Sydney (Australia)

Sydney is a city that initiated the "Earth Hour"last week, Sidney is also the one who became the first city to do the program. Sidney City also has developed a food waste processing program efficiently, making clear why Sydney became one of the greenest cities in the world.

7. Bogota (Colombia)


The city is widely known for its high crime rates, to green since the government held by the mayor Enrique Penalosa. He managed to reconstruct all the sidewalks for pedestrians, in addition to this, he also creates an efficient transit bus system and revitalize over 1200 urban green space. The mayor also raised the fuel tax to reduce use of vehicles and also start the Car Free Day.

8. Curitiba (Brazil)


If 99% of residents in the city of Curitiba pleased with them, then they deserve it. Some of the reasons is the fact that more than 70% of the people there rely on public transportation is very efficient. Curitiba is a model city remarkable for a metropolitan city with environmentally friendly concepts.

9. London (England)


The city government of London runs the Climate Change Action Plan which makes the city become the greenest city in the world. Reduce CO2 emissions by 60% and produce 25% of the local energy in the next 20 years, besides the London city government also gave incentives to its citizens quite tempting specially if they apply the concept of eco-friendly.

10. Portland, Oregon (USA)

Maybe you'll be surprised that this city was a city with the highest pollution in America, but this is the first city first applied the concept of environmentally friendly ways to build environmentally friendly building (Green Building). Local governments also strive to reduce the number of citizens who use the car by way of building bike paths and tram lines.

List of CNN Version 7 Wonders of the World


Grand Canyon




Grand Canyon is a cliff-steep ravine, carved by the Colorado River, in northern Arizona. This gulf is one
of the Seven Wonders of the World and mostly located in National Parks Grand Canyon, one of the first national parks in the United States. President Theodore Roosevelt is one of the main support area
Grand Canyon, visiting on several occasions to hunt mountain lion and enjoy the incredible scenery.

This gap, created by the Colorado River cutting a strait during millions of years, length of approximately 446 km, with width ranging from 6 to 29 km and with a depth of more than 1,600 m. Almost from 2000 million years of Earth history has been truncated by the Colorado River and its layers upon layers of river sediment as the Colorado Plateau began lifted.

Grand Canyon was first seen by Europeans in 1540, García López de Cárdenas from Spain. The first scientific expedition to the canyon U.S. is led by Major John Wesley Powell in the late 1870s. Powell pointed to the sedimentary rocks exposed in the gap as "leaves in great story book ". However, long before that time, this region has inhabited by Native Americans who built a residence in walls of this chasm.


Great Barrier Reef/Karang Penghalang Besar



Great Barrier Reef is a collection of coral reefs The world's largest consisting of approximately 3,000 reefs and 900 island, which stretches 2,600 km. These reefs are located in the Sea Coral, off the coast of Queensland in northeast Australia. most areas of this reef-protected part Great Barrier Reef Marine Park (Great Barrier Reef Marine Park).

Great Barrier Reef (CDE) can be seen from outer space and sometimes referred to as the largest single organism in the world. In fact, it was formed from millions of tiny organisms, known as polyps coral (coral polyp). CDE was chosen as one site UNESCO World Heritage in 1981.

Biodiversitasnya riches, its waters are warm and clear, and keterjangkauannya of floating facility called the live aboards, make this reef became a very popular tourism destination, especially for scuba divers. Many cities along the coast Queensland coast which offers tours to the coral sea this every day. Several continental islands have also been changed into resort.

Mount Everest




Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world (if measured from the sea face.) Summit ridge marks the boundary between Nepal and Tibet peak in Tibet. This mountain has altitude of approximately 8850 m. This mountain gets the name of the language English from the name of Sir George Everest. This name given by Sir
Andrew Waugh, the surveyor-general British India, the successor Everest. Everest is one of the Seven Summits in the Main world.


Air Terjun Victoria





Victoria Waterfalls is one of the waterfalls most spectacular in the world. This waterfall is located on the Zambezi River, which at present forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Water This waterfall has a width of approximately 1 mile (1.6 km), with a height 128M (420 feet).

David Livingstone, Scottish explorer, visited this lake in 1855 and named it in the name of Queen Victoria, while its local name is Mosi-oa-Tunya, "thundering smoke." This waterfall is part of two national parks, Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park in Zambia and Victoria Falls National Park in Zimbabwe, as well as Heritage Site UNESCO world. This waterfall is a major tourist attraction in Africam South.


Northern Lights




One of the wonders of the world is the Northern Lights or also called Aurora Borealis. Kejaiban light
These colors are formed by interaction between the Earth's magnetic field with solar particles.


Volkano Paricutín



Paricutín volcano, is a volcanocontained in the state of Michoacan, Mexico. Before 1943, mountain
This volcano is not there, but suddenly there is volcanic activity resulted in the people around there to flee, the young mountain continue to grow higher, a day to 50 meters and current activities can be said to stop, the height of the mountain reaches 336  meters.


Pelabuhan Rio de Janeiro




Rio de Janeiro (meaning "January River" in the language Portuguese) is the capital of the State of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil section tenggara.Kota has an area of ​​1256 km ² and a population of approximately 6,150,000 million people (2004). The city is called the port city. About 10 million people live in the metropolitan area of ​​Rio de Janeiro Kingdom, which is currently the fourth largest city in the world.
Location of the port of Rio de Janeiro is unique is right in the end mouth of the river between the sea and rivers meeting, in addition to the port city The city also has a geographical location and views are very beautiful. Between the Mountain and the beach is very close distance, so we can see very beautiful scenery. Brazil discovered and colonized by Portuguese in 1565 so that the culture, language, habits, as well portugal food refers to the state, which were the spiritual bond between the two states.
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