Green Options » 10 greenest cities http://greenoptions.com/tag/10-greenest-cities Posts tagged '10 greenest cities' Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:36:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en The 10 Greenest Cities in the U.S. http://sustainablog.org/2009/06/29/the-10-greenest-cities-in-the-us/ http://sustainablog.org/2009/06/29/the-10-greenest-cities-in-the-us/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2009 21:36:10 +0000 Tom Schueneman http://sustainablog.org/2009/06/29/the-10-greenest-cities-in-the-us/

The Mother Nature Network has just published their list of the ten greenest cities in the United States.

There is as yet no official criteria set by the EPA for determining a city’s “greeness,” MNN considered key areas to measure the effectiveness of a municipality’s efforts at carbon footprint reduction, including air and water quality, efficient recylcling and management of waste, percentage of LEED certified buildings, acres of land devoted to green space, use of renewable energy, and easy access to green products and services.

And the MNN winners are:

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