SINGAPORE GREEN CITY

CABRINA LY & KALYANI YANCEY

SINGAPORE’S AIR QUALITY
- Ranks as the 6th major city with the worst air quality
- Main sources: emissions from industries and motor vehicles
- Has horrible smog issue
WATER
- Uses 430 billion gallons of water
a day
- Most efficient source of
freshwater is rain
- Extensive network of rivers and
canals
- Rivers and canals translate into
17 different storage reservoirs
LAND USE
- Land scarcity = vertical farming
- Efficiently took advantage of building to replace farms
- Build layered buildings
to save land space
TRANSPORTATION
- Singapore has three main modes of public transportation
- The three modes of public transit is MRT, buses, and taxis.
- The most common form of public transportation is by bus
ENERGY
- 95% of Singapore electricity is power by natural gas
- 5% powered by coal, oil, waste, and oil
- Is very reliant of other countries (Malaysia and Indonesia) for
imports.
- Figuring out a system of
wireless electricity transfer.
FOOD/AGRICULTURE
- In 2012, introduced vertical farming without sunlight or soil
- With vertical farming, you can also manipulate certain
characteristics of the plants
- Working on food
sustainability so Singapore as
a city can survive on their
own.
GREEN BUILDINGS
- Green buildings may hold the key to reducing Singapore’s carbon footprint as the
urban development increases
- Singapore has the ambition to have 80 percent of its buildings certified as
sustainable by 2030
- Singapore is a global leader in green buildings
WASTE
- Efficiently turns waste into electricity
- More than 2.8 million tons of waste is incinerated a year
- They have waste-energy plants for incineration and energy
recovery
PUBLIC HEALTH
- Is labeled as one of the most healthiest cities
- Is supervised by the Ministry of Health of the Singapore
government
- Consist of a universal healthcare system with a significant
private healthcare sector