Europe is just loaded with public transportation, 90%+ plastic recycling, small cars going too fast, busy/busy/busy, congested, micromanaged sustainable parks everywhere, pedestrian priorities, mega walkways and bikeways everywhere, clean diesel (at the same price as regular gas!), on and on....
Over 70% of Europeans want the government to TOTALLY eliminate plastic bags and containers. In the store the other day I saw an entire display shelf of bio-kitchen utensils. This kind of 'bio' is different than ours. Bio here used to be synonymous with 'Demeter' or bio-dynamics... ala Rudolph Steiner/Waldorf type philosophy which is highly respected here and not some fringe group as viewed by some in the USA. These bio utensils were made from recycled other biodegradable things - a sort of second generation. They were primarily made of corn and root-beet products and designed to be reused and re-manufactured as such if the consumer wanted to discard it. WOW - that's a whole new generation of products. Cradle-to-Cradle is alive and well!
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