City With No Cars: Tucked deep inside Germany’s Black Forest, there is a city that seems to have found the secret to clean living. Freiburg im Breisgau is not merely a beautiful university town, it is a place where cars are few, the air smells fresh and piney and even the trash cans run on solar power.

The cobbled streets gleam after rain, trams move between rows of trees and bicycles rule the roads. To many who visit, Freiburg feels less like a city and more like a glimpse of how the world could look if people truly learned to live in harmony with nature.

The City That Runs On Sunshine

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In addition to sheltering people, the rooftops here also produce power. Every neighbourhood gleams with solar panels that feed clean energy into the city’s grid.

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