GOING GREENER
© Bruxelles Environnement / Leefmilieu Brussel – Yves Fonck. |
Brussels Environment has published a handy new map – The Brussels Green Walk – tracing 63 green kilometres around Brussels for cyclists & walkers. It’s available at BI-TC offices on the Grand’Place and in BIP (Rue Royale 2).
www.bruxellesenvironnement.be
 Brussels new Super-green website has also useful up-to-date information on parks, green walks, pollution-free transport, hotels, organic eating and shopping, green events…
www.brusselsgreen.com
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Not many people realise that Brussels is one of the greenest cities in the world, in fact second only to Washington. We have the highest ratio of green space per inhabitant of any city in Europe with all our many parks and gardens, not forgetting the green belt formed by the Forêt de Soignes to the south east...the green lungs of Brussels. |
© Bruxelles Environnement / Leefmilieu Brussel – Yves Fonck. |
 Sustainable news
The Brussels-Capital Region has created a special new label for Eco-Dynamic Companies, designed to highlight venues which run environmentally-friendly events. And there are already 18 new Eco-Dynamic hotels. A full list is available on www.brusselsgreen.com
 Brussels has been selected to host Velo-city 2009, 12-15 May 2009, the largest conference in the world devoted to cycling. It brings together over 1000 delegates involved in the policy, promotion and provision for cyclists and is also a unique opportunity to present the progressive cycling policy of Brussels and Europe to the rest of the world.
And just before, Brussels will have celebrated one of its two annual car-free days on 10 May. The second is on 20 September when the city once again turns into a paradise for pedestrians, cyclists, rollerbladers…
www.velo-city2009.com
Your contact for Sustainable City Marketing at BI-TC is Aurélie Godart
a.godart@brusselsinternational.be |