Sustaining a Green Environment

Photo Credit: National University of Singapore

While the Singapore government has lain out their plans to meet the needs of an increased population, they are also aware of the need to continue maintaining Singapore as a ‘City in a Garden’. As such, there are attempts to achieve their proposed plans in ways that would help to sustain and conserve the Singapore environment.

Two of the proposed plans are:

• Housing
  – Build eco-towns[1]
  – Build more environmentally-friendly buildings, with features such as attractive green roofs and communal sky terraces
• Build more parks and green spaces, with improved park accessibility
  – At least 85% of the household will live within 400m of a park by 2030