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The big highlights of the project are two cycling highways, one leading to Lower Austria in the south and another leading to Donaustadt
Sântana has only 11,000 residents, yet several municipal buildings will get connected to a renewable geothermal reservoir deep underground
With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service
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While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
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The city wants new approaches to developing the urban environment and is willing to fund the best solutions
Around 75% of German CO2 emissions come from the private sector, yet less than 1% of businesses are considered fully sustainable
City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation
The city has a strategy of putting 10,000 human-controlled and autonomous shuttles on the streets by 2030
The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum
Sântana has only 11,000 residents, yet several municipal buildings will get connected to a renewable geothermal reservoir deep underground
With a decline in passengers due to Covid-19 and the energy crisis, among other factors, the city will focus on increasing the quality of service
The big highlights of the project are two cycling highways, one leading to Lower Austria in the south and another leading to Donaustadt
It will open its doors in 2024 and offer cremations and burials
The building will be on the site of Plato’s Ancient Academy
The city has learned a lot from an ongoing project for a solar roof on the Altonaer Museum
The city has arranged four tailor-made programmes for the different residences as a way to reconnect with patients’ life and memories
The city has developed its own way to teach young people how to react when they witness unjust treatments
The city will supply and maintain 138 dispensers in public buildings
While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation
The “Beaches without smoke” campaign will apply to two of the city’s sand strips
Alicante’s municipal website announced at the start of this past weekend that the city’s tourism board has decided to join a pilot project under the name “Playas sin humo. Disfrutemos de entornos saludables” (Beaches without smoke. Let’s enjoy a healthy environment) that will involve the beaches of Urbanova-Saladares and La Almadraba. The campaign is carried under the patronage of the regional health ministry of the Valencian autonomous community.
The purpose of the campaign is to help bring about more sustainable beaches and a more pleasant environment for beachgoers. To that end, the entry points of the two beaches will have banners with the logos of the campaign displayed in order to catch the attention and inform the visitors.
The initiative has a dual aim that seeks to combine care for the natural environment with personal care for one’s wellbeing as well as that of the people around. Furthermore, discouraging of smoking as a habit has better results when it has visibility in public, so that young children will adopt the new norms by copying what adults do.
What is interesting is that the campaign has transformative aims which seeks to gently remind citizens of the need to take care of themselves and the environment without sanctioning them. That means that the local police will not impose fines on people who smoke but will instead recommend to them to do it on the promenades outside of the beaches.
"We intend to raise awareness about the sustainability of the beaches, and take care of them by favouring the preservation of the marine environment," said Mari Carmen Sánchez, Deputy Mayor of Alicante and President of the Tourism Board, adding: "It is only a citizen awareness campaign. Without any kind of tax collection effort behind it".
Changing old habits might not be easy but it would certainly be advantageous in the long term since it has been reported that more than 5 kilograms of cigarette butts are collected daily from the city beaches. Even more, this is not a simple task as it requires manual work with rakes and sieves because the standard beach cleaning machines are not able to pick such small items.
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While the new health policy will fund the morning-after pill and various progesterone treatments, it will not cover condoms
City officials found that simple messages about respecting residents’ sleep were most effective if coupled with the right presentation
The city has a strategy of putting 10,000 human-controlled and autonomous shuttles on the streets by 2030
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