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> an indifference for any sort of sustainability. That's a pretty apt general description of Las Vegas.
by jachee 9y ago
> an indifference for any sort of sustainability.
That's a pretty apt general description of Las Vegas.
- gnaritas 9y agoAnd Phoenix, and Los Angeles, and much of the southwest in general.
- dragonwriter 9y agoThe LA Basin is not a desert.
- sjg007 9y agoTechnically it is.
- dragonwriter 9y agoTechnically, it's still not; it's a dry-summer Mediterranean climate; in the Köppen system, it's a Csb, arid climates are B, Desert is BW with h/k/n in the third position depending on temperature.
- pilom 9y agoI would actually put Vegas as one of the most sustainable cities in the US out of necessity. Vegas's per capita water use is about 1/4 of the US average including all of those crazy fountains on the strip. They don't irrigate anything compared to places like Phoenix and almost all municipal water hookups use reclaimed water unlike most other cities where people have an aversion to drinking filtered piss. Vegas also gets almost all of its energy from renewable sources (hydro and a tiny amount of solar) compared to the US as a whole which is only about 10%. Colorado by comparison gets about 60% of it's electricity from coal.
- jachee 9y agoFair enough. Consider me educated. It was a quick jab with only an outsider's superficial perspective. s/Las Vegas/Phoenix