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We're Number 2, We Try Harder

July 23, 2009 by greenie

Once again San Francisco has been identified as the second most sustainable city in the U.S. This time The City lost out to Seattle in the latest list from the excellent NRDC Smarter Cities Project. They analyzed data from the Census Bureau, EPA, and various suveys of city governmet staff.

Seattle does have an aggressively green mayor and a cool new light rail system. They also get a lot of energy from hydro which can be good for clean air, but not always good for rivers and fish. San Francisco got credit for walkability, the plastic-bag ban, the new carbon offset fund, the solar power program and the local food movement. Not bad.

One might quibble with choice number 13, Los Angeles. It's hard to imagine a less sustainable city (ok, Vegas is probably worse.) LA should be working much harder on water desalinization and public transport if they want to be in the least bit sustainable. With the abundance of sunshine, the whole southern part of the state should be solar powered by now..

http://www.grist.org/article/index/2009-07-16-sustainable-green-us-citie...

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