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Urban Sustainability's Missing Ingredient? Education
The best way to make cities greener might be teaching residents what that actually means.
"Helping the trees. Which provide oxygen."
That was the uncertain (and somewhat serious) answer one college-aged woman gave when she was asked the question, "what does sustainability mean to you?" by a pair of George Washington University students. Unprompted, she then second-guessed her response: "The trees provide oxygen? Yeah."