Posts Tagged ‘ Green Cities ’

POPSCI: America’s Second Greatest City

Feb 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Northern California

Popular Science (the magazine) recently named San Francisco the USA’s second greenest city. They also profiled 6 of the top contenders and explored how they made the list.
[ 50 Greenest Cities in America: Full Rankings ]
Gavin Newsom and Jared Blumenfeld discuss SF Forward in the video window below:



Municipal recycling needs a facelift

Feb 5th, 2009 | By FL-GreenCities | Category: Alabama

Have you heard? The price of cardboard has dropped by almost $100 per ton. It is just one more teensy economic shift that is costing billions of dollars to simply disappear from the promise of a green economy. Many municipalities that (commendably) implemented curbside recycling are now caught in a difficult situation. Back when the [...]



Green Energy: Our Future Depends on It

Feb 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: New York

In July 2008, Al Gore challenged the U.S. to generate 100% of the electricity we need using clean, renewable, sustainable sources within 10 years. “When you connect the dots,” he said, “it turns out that the real solutions to the climate crisis are the very same measures needed to renew our economy and escape the [...]