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Sustainable Urbanism: Stockholm, Sweden is EU’s 2010 Green Capital

Sustainable Urbanism: Stockholm, Sweden is EU’s 2010 Green Capital

The air is clean. Traffic is minimal. There are no coal-fired boilers. 70 percent of households receive a water heating system that comes from a large centralized plant that uses electricity. The European Commission has recognized Stockholm as Europe’s most sustainable city. The Swedish capital has achieved a record in energy conservation and quality [...]