{"id":433,"date":"2017-03-21T19:58:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T23:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=433"},"modified":"2017-03-21T19:58:30","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T23:58:30","slug":"from-the-web-cleaning-urban-air-requires-radical-solutions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/21\/from-the-web-cleaning-urban-air-requires-radical-solutions\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Cleaning Urban Air Requires Radical Solutions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-434\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-6.46.44-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1174\" height=\"704\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-6.46.44-PM.png 1174w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-6.46.44-PM-300x180.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-6.46.44-PM-768x461.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-6.46.44-PM-1024x614.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/03\/Screen-Shot-2017-03-21-at-6.46.44-PM-500x300.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You might think common urban complaints in the major cities of Western Europe might be about the state of the roads, or property prices. But there\u2019s increasingly a more serious complaint: <em>not being able to breathe<\/em>. Cities might be efficient machines for living, but when we collectively burn gas to heat our homes and then collectively sit in traffic every morning, we\u2019re making our machines unliveable.<\/p>\n<p>Despite global progress made on lowering emissions, cities from London to Beijing to S\u00e3o Paulo have atmospheres that are so polluted that residents are often warned not to leave their homes unless they have to. To combat the problem, three European cities\u2013London, Paris, and Barcelona\u2013and their mayors are pursuing radical policies to cut traffic, often to the deep chagrin of the cities\u2019 drivers, but at great benefit to their citizens\u2019 lungs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fastcompany.com\/3068662\/world-changing-ideas-urban-air?utm_content=buffer0c18b&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=twitter.com&amp;utm_campaign=buffer\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a> <em>(via Fast Company)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might think common urban complaints in the major cities of Western Europe might be about the state of the roads, or property prices. But there\u2019s increasingly a more serious complaint: not being able to breathe. Cities might be efficient machines for living, but when we collectively burn gas to heat our homes and then &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/03\/21\/from-the-web-cleaning-urban-air-requires-radical-solutions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Cleaning Urban Air Requires Radical Solutions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-6Z","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}