{"id":4358,"date":"2019-04-03T16:43:52","date_gmt":"2019-04-03T15:43:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4358"},"modified":"2023-01-24T11:46:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-24T11:46:00","slug":"the-uks-greenest-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/the-uks-greenest-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK&#8217;s Greenest Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>April is here and British Summer Time is well and truly underway, and April isn\u2019t just the month where we tend to spend more time outdoors,  it&#8217;s also the month of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earthday.org\">Earth Day<\/a>. Celebrated for almost 50 years, Earth Day is an international event to help raise awareness and show support for the environmental protection of our planet Earth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here at The Solar Centre, we wanted to get involved and help\nraise awareness of Earth Day and inspire people to be more environmentally\nfriendly. We recognised that sometimes it can be difficult to understand the\nimpact we have on our environment \u2013 especially when there are over 7 billion\npeople in the world. So, we wanted to make sure we focused on the environment\nin the UK and areas which would matter to you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019ve taken 10 different factors which are affecting our\nenvironment and collected data for each factor in 52 different cities across\nEngland, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and scored each city between 0 \u2013\n10 based on the data. Some of these environmental factors include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>CO2 emissions <\/li><li>Fly-tipping<\/li><li>Traffic congestion<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>We then averaged the rankings across all the factors to crown the greenest city in the UK. We hope this will inspire you to make a difference in your local area, whether you live in a city or not. You can view our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/uk-greenest-cities\/\">Greenest Cities<\/a> interactive which shows all the rankings <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/uk-greenest-cities\/\">here<\/a> and find out which city was crowned the greenest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"798\" data-id=\"4370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO-city-copy-1024x798.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4370\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO-city-copy-1024x798.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO-city-copy-300x234.png 300w, https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO-city-copy-768x598.png 768w, https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/ISO-city-copy.png 1258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is here and British Summer Time is well and truly underway, and April isn\u2019t just the month where we tend to spend more time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5048,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solar-products"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The UK&#039;s Greenest Cities | The Solar Centre<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"To help inspire people to be eco friendly in their local area we&#039;ve collected data across 52 cities to find the UK&#039;s Greenest Citie.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/the-uks-greenest-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The UK&#039;s Greenest Cities | The Solar Centre\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"To help inspire people to be eco friendly in their local area we&#039;ve collected data across 52 cities to find the UK&#039;s Greenest Citie.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.thesolarcentre.co.uk\/blog\/2019\/04\/03\/the-uks-greenest-cities\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Indoor\/Outdoor Lighting Guides &amp; 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