Opening night in New York City

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Sarai Campo, reporter. Photo: EiTB

After seeing that global warming is not a tale by mad scientists (every day we feel the consequences of the heating of our planet), some have already become aware and intervened in the affair.

The City of New York presented the first "green" houses on Thursday. And it's not that there are no green-coloured buildings in the Great Apple, but many don't lose hope that they can save the planet.

It's curious that one of the cities in the world that pollutes most tackles such innovating and ecological projects. But "chapeau" for that person who thinking and thinking asked people to live polluting the minimum.

Yesterday in the evening Michael Bloomberg, Mayor of New York, and Eliot Spitzer, governor of the state, attended the opening session of the first promotion of subsidised houses in the Great Apple.

The houses, located in the south of the Bronx, were awarded the certificate of the federal office of ecological houses, certificate that guarantees that the houses respect the quality demanded to be labelled as "green houses."

According to the certificate, their location as well as the interior design process as well as the materials used in the building and the use of different energies are sustainable and respect the environment.

As Bloomberg said, "these houses prove that subsidised houses can also be ecological."

The new houses, which will take in 64 families, are within the most ambitious plan of the city, which expects to build 165,000 new houses.

The Mayor of New York also highlighted the importance to find a "correct and respectful location with environment" for the million people that will settle in New York in 2030.

Once again the Great Apple shocks us. Such an innovating and ecological idea in a city in which all public buildings, transports, bars, restaurants and even houses switch on air conditioning to the point that you have to wear a sweater not to spend your working hours shivering or getting goose pimples. Al least surprising.

In New York citizens go in their shirtsleeves. In winter, even if there are 15 degrees below 0, when you go to a café you feel comfortable in your shirtsleeves; and in summer, when there are 36 degrees Celsius in the street, you need a sweater not to be cold at a Starbucks. But up with ecological houses and Bloomberg's words of green awareness.

From the most innovating way to cool down the planet, once again this is New York.