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The key to being sustainable is by not being sustainable! …people desire to be evolving, growing, living, learning, etc., not just getting along for the next year. “Sustainability” as a term is not provocative enough for cities. At the urban scale we need to think about integrated and positive ecological solutions—solutions that fit holistically within the metabolism of urbanity. Imagine cars in our future city; how can they positively contribute to the local ecology? What kind of a car cleans the air and accounts for 50 years of industrial pollution? Today we mostly concentrate on cars in the city that are efficiency-based models. These do less damage than previous cars, but still continue to exacerbate the energy crisis. Neutral models are not much better. Neutral or zero emission vehicles do no further damage, but don’t alter the current condition positively. A positive ecological mobility system is the most provocative design goal for future cities. This means vehicles that are powered by renewable sources, add to the energy grid, possess intelligence, and scrub the atmosphere. Such as fuel cell vehicles with green hydrogen reformation.
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