Roberto Ramos
Period 3
Mr. Noble
Junior Theme
The United States has about three hundred growing cities. About three fourths of those cities have a growing population of a hundred thousand to about nine hundred thousand. Only ten actually have a population of more than a million which are New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston,
Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, and San Jose. Over the years, cities like these grown to have a large amount of transportation for workers, civilians, and tourist in these cities. all these transportations to get where we need to go, cause a large amount of fossil fuels into the air. also all the transportation of cars buses and railway system throughout out the United States make up about
30 percent of the country’s energy use. a lot of this transportation and even the hole city itself is harming the environment, very much causing health issues global warming and changed in weather, that’s why I suppose that the United States of America cities should be green cities for the good for this environment and our health.
In these large cities that we ether live by, or live in, to go to work every day. We obviously take some type of transportation to get there ether if it’s by your own car, or public transportation. so there’s still greenhouse gases getting put into the air. So when the United States and the people always have arguments about the oil use in the country and even the world. There’s just no way we can let go of the

energy fuel we use. it will take time and lots of money to put everything we got into making a new type of fuel for are Unites states transportation. For example, in our energy future "nuclear, solar, hydro and wind energy all will have growing roles in electricity generation, whereas the importance of coal and oil will decline," explained Dirks. "But when we want to move a car, a truck or an airplane, there's really only one way to do it” (Green Cities Need Green Transportation." Green Cities. Ronald D. Lankford, Jr.)
Some cities in the United States and all around the world have found small solutions to create a more Green City and just to make such as New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver and the san Francisco Bay area, offer a more energetic way for transportation. Although they still have their normal way of public transportation. Such as buses and trains. These cities offer bikes for public use. In Chicago its called the
Divvy, and a bike rental for a 24-hour pass is 7 dollars. Now if we all use this biking system in nice days to get are daily excursive the city will be more healthy and we will save up on gas. It will also cut down on the greenhouse gasses get put into the air every time we turn on our car. But these solutions don't always solve problems one hundred percent. Weather changes all the time throughout Chicago making it cold one day and making it warm another. And even if it’s a beautiful day out riding bikes isn't always for everyone, And plus they don't really protect the rider in any way when it comes to safety. And that goes straight into my next agreement.
Now in the near future we will eventually have a solution for the oil that we use today. like using electricity, or carbon dioxide water and sunlight. (“Green Cities Need Green Transportation." Green
Cities. Ronald D. Lankford, Jr) these futuristic solutions might take us a while for our united states scientist to master but it is always something to look up to when the environment that you live in is being in danger from what mankind made. Especially the melting ice in Antarctica and even the changes

in weather occurring lately around the globe. The U.S Department of energy is researching the use of sunlight for the replacement for oil so we can use it as energy. The scientist of the Department of energy the process of making this energy is very similar to photosynthesis were they concentrate the solar energy and then join Carbon dioxide and water to create hydrocarbons to form what will then be eventually called fuel. (“Green Cities Need Green Transportation." Green Cities. Ronald D. Lankford, Jr) they said “Drilling will not be needed with these fuels. Increased security, cleaner air and new jobs will result.” "The fuels that result from these processes will look feel and perform just like what we put into our cars today. They will use existing refineries to prepare fuel blends and existing gas stations to deliver the fuel to today's cars," he added. (“Green Cities Need Green Transportation." Green Cities. Ronald D.
Lankford, Jr) .All this will be put into our futures look out of the making of fuel for our cars, but all this takes time and making. These liquid fuels that are primarily made of solar power said it will take a solid
15 years of development for this to work correctly.
Another great reason to help American cities go green is simply just eating more healthy organic, local, fresh, affordable food from the farmers market. they’re getting pretty popular lately since more and more people are knowing about all the chemicals there used to grow manufactured food from
Mc Donald’s. These markets with perfectly grown food with cultivating soil have helped young people contribute to community projects as in creating a green city within they live in. Even in farmer markets from Philadelphia to Boston have educated the people with everyday ways to stay healthy and eat right.
(Johnson, Sophie. "Local Agriculture Can Help Create Green Cities.) Having these agricultural markets around is good for a lot of us. When having the effect of greenhouse gases around us be more obvious a lot of it is still fuel and we transport a lot of food around the world with transportations like planes, boats and truck. If we have these farmer markets as a local food source for a price that almost everyone

can afford. it will be a more energy efficient way for the united states citizens to shop for food. They will be less carbon dioxide in the air as a result. Since there is less fuel being used to transport food from someplace else. (Johnson, Sophie. "Local Agriculture Can Help Create Green Cities.)
A food Drive in Philadelphia called the the “food trust” is just another great example about how wonderful these agricultural markets can change the town you live in and the health of are nations cities
(Johnson, Sophie. "Local Agriculture Can Help Create Green Cities.). This local farmer market founded in
1992, over the years from which it originated from sponsors twenty eight other farmer markets that help poor school around the area for more nutritious and healthy choices for food. since they went so far The General assembly of Philadelphia has created a bill to modify the foods that come in to supermarkets for the public to pick out healthier food for their families. their main goal is "to ensure that everyone has access to affordable nutritious food.” (Johnson, Sophie. "Local Agriculture Can Help
Create Green Cities.).
Having green cities will be a great change to the United states and it will slow down the pollution that’s being put into the air since humans and almost all living organisms rely on air to live. we need air to live, its simple logic. But know and days since the strike with air pollution has cooled down. we need to get back on it by using recycled paper instead of new paper and recycle everything we can so we can reuse it. it’s such a simple task that almost every United states citizen can do, living in a city or without living in a city. Although its a small little activity to help the work become a better place its still makes a difference. Consider it as a donation to a good cause, even thought you give away a small

By recycling, we can help the environment reduce the need of searching and working for the need minerals that we look for while mining or cut down trees and clear forests out every hour as we do know. this is important because mining and cutting down trees all have their input into putting greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Also an addition from deforestation which is cutting down trees is that plants and trees reduce the pollution from the atmosphere from the gasses like carbon dioxide.
Cities in the United States need to understand the good and band behind this. They don't really understand since they got another stuff to worry about in their daily life. Like their job, family and bills to pay. And that understandable since all American citizens go through that and everyone has their own problems. What America needs to realize is what happens around them can have a very big impact in their life like the pollution that humans cause or just little things like in that matter that no one pays attention to since most people think that it does not matter. People need to realize the impact that it is happening our world’s atmosphere, oceans, and our health. This is why I believe the creation of green cities in our nation would be a great dissension to help the little thing in our life to create a better living and a strong sustainable environment for us to live in.

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