Denamrk does it again.

I recently came across a map of Denmark;

and after studying this map for sometime I realized that the danish are just giving the rest of the world the middle finger.

Just because they have great health care, a great economy, and a viking ship museum doesn't mean they have to be so rude. Do to Denmark's wind farms and other renewable resources, they have plans to become independent from fossil fuel use by the year 2050. That means they will be in no need of oil at all. That's freaking HUGE! Could you imagine a country not reliant on foreign oils. That may be the reason for the middle finger. One way of achieving that is Denmark has over 40% of the population biking to work helping it to be one of the cleanest countries in the world. Denmark is so clean even the politicians are clean. I'm not entirely sure about the politicians but the new United Nations building in Copenhagen is.

UN City was design by a Danish architect firm (3XN) and it shows. It's no surprise that the roof houses 1,400 solar panels to support renewable energy but it also pumps sea water into the basement to act as a refrigerant to cool the building, but sea water isn't the only water being used. To help reduce waste UN City has rain water collection system that is predicted to collect almost 3 million liters of rain water a year (weather permitting) to be used in bathrooms, kitchens, and showers. That would be enough to flush the entire buildings toilets for a year. the goal of this building was to reduce energy consumption and it achieved the goal by reducing energy use more than 55%. The UN City also encourages its employees to bike to work (no surprise) by adding 680 bike racks. So maybe they aren't giving us the middle finger but saying, "Hey, world, look over here! I have the solution for renewable and reducing energy!"

We definitely need to pay attention to what Denmark is doing, grant it USA is a much larger country, we may still be able to get inspired by their efforts to keep the Earth as clean as possible.  

most of my info was provided by; http://denmark.dk/en/

"You say you love rain, but you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun, but you seek shade when it is shining. You say you love wind, but when it comes you close your window. So that's why I'm scared when you say you love me."                                       -Bob Marley