The Green Capital of Europe Award 2010

[MrObama]

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Stockholm is the first city to be awarded European Green Capital by the European Commission.
During 2010, Stockholm will be the first European Green Capital.

Everything from water protection plans, to public transport and work against fossil fuel emissions has been reviewed. In all aspects, Stockholm was conceived as a front runner.

Sweden also plans to be the world's first oil-free economy.

[DrGee5]

1. K&R

[Uncle Joe]

2. Around the 5:00 minute mark Brian Williams alludes to the Danes usually leading the world in

happiness but what came first the chicken or the egg?

Is Denmark green because they're happy or happy because they're green?

Not to mention their universal health coverage which covers all their citizens, I believe it even covers you if you travel there on vacation.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x4354580

http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=4086092&page=1

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"For the past decade, social scientists and pollsters have given elaborate questionnaires to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. Two of the largest studies that rank the happiness of countries around the world are the World Map of Happiness from the University of Leiscester and the World Database of Happiness from Ruut Veenhoven of Erasmus University Rotterdam. All the happiness surveys ask people basically the same question: How happy are you?

"The answer you get is not only how they feel right now, but also how they feel about their entire life," explained Dan Buettner, who has studied happiness and longevity around the world through his Blue Zones project Buettner said that if you mine all the databases of universities and research centers, you'll find that the happiest place on earth is ? Denmark. Cold, dreary, unspectacular Denmark."

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Thanks for the thread, Mr Obama. and congratulations to the great and progressive city of Stockholm.:thumbsup: