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Ecotowns of the world unite

By Channel 4 News

Updated on 04 April 2008

More4 News reports on the government's announcement of a shortlist of 15 possible sites for so-called ecotowns.

New towns built according to environmental principles sound fine in principle, but what would it actually be like to live in one?

Helene Cacace went to the town of Freiburg in southern Germany to find out, where some districts are run on strictly ecotown principles.

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