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Daily Real Estate News | June 12, 2007
Sustainability in Practice: Top 25 Greenest U.S. Cities
As Kermit the frog says, "It's not easy being green."
Country Home magazine, with help from Sperling's Best Places, examined all 379 major metropolitan areas in the country, ranking them according to how green they were.
Qualifications for top ranking included air and watershed quality, miles of mass transit, power usage, farmers' markets, organic producers, and the number of green-certified buildings.
Editor-in-Chief Carol Sheehan says, "We wanted to find out who in America is actually taking action, where they are, and what they are doing."
Here are the magazine's picks for the 25 greenest cities in America:
1. Burlington-South Burlington, Vt.
2. Ithaca, N.Y.
3. Corvallis, Ore.
4. Springfield, Mass.
5. Wenatchee, Wash.
6. Charlottesville, Va.
7. Boulder, Colo.
8. Madison, Wis.
9. Binghamton, N.Y.
10. Champaign-Urbana, Ill.
11. Ann Arbor, Mich.
12. San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos, Calif.
13. La Crosse, Wis.
14. Pittsfield, Mass.
15. Eau Claire, Wis.
16. Durham, N.C.
17. Norwich-New London, Conn.
18. Eugene-Springfield, Ore.
19. San Francisco-San Mateo-Redwood City, Calif.
20. Chico, Calif.
21. Harrisburg-Carlisle, Pa.
22. Barnstable Town, Mass.
23. Utica-Rome, N.Y.
24. Missoula, Mont.
25. Asheville, N.C.
Source: Country Home (April 2007)
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