"The 20 Greenest Spots In The Country"

These 20 spots were published in the most recent (July/August) issue of Vegetarian Times. All of them are eco-concious and veg-friendly...

*Towns

1. Portland Maine

2. Asheville North Carolina

3. Brattleboro Vermont

4. Moab Utah

5. Boulder Colorado

6. Santa Fe New Mexico

7. Missoula Montana

8. Ithaca New York

9. Bisbee Arizona

10. Arcata California

*Cities

1. Chicago Illinois

2. Austin Texas

3. New York City

4. Atlanta Georgia

5. San Francisco California

6. Minneapolis Minnesota

7. Honolulu Hawaii

8. Seattle Washington

9. Madison Wisconsin

10. Portland Oregan

 

Minneapolis???? PLEASE! You must go FARTHER North to REALLY see how GREEN Minnesota is!

 

That's exactly what I was thinkin' 'bout Wisconsin when I saw Madison mentioned.

Why the list was confined to cities and towns, I haven't a clue.

 

how about Vancouver, BC, Canada.. home of the Green Party.. lol its soo green and lovely.. soo many hippies.. lol

 

yeah BC is awesome!
calgary is also one of the cleanest cities in the world

 

Haha, I might have to check Vancouver out ziggy.

 

YAY portland Maine is on there! I Love that city, born and raised!
they have some wicked cool places to go and just chill! so much to see and do
not like where I live now *starts to hurl*

 

Ashville, NC is one of the greatest towns in all of the US...

 

is chicago really on there? haha!! wow, chicago isnt green... you need to go more north and west TO LAKE ZURICH!! haha well thats not to green either but if you go like 5 miles from that then it gets GREEN!! and forestry!! GO TO THE SUBURBS BABY!!

 

Hippies? In Vancouver? Hell yeah, I'm movin'.

 

How in the world did Bisbee,AZ make the list.....go to Prescott,AZ instead.

 

lol totally agreed.. and no.. you dont really have to go further north... the southern part of minnesota is nice and green as well... its just the area around the twin cities that is mostly shit... even though... apart from downtown areas.. the twin cities area is somewhat clean compared to other big cities... if you can look past downtown and the warehouse district and such... and get past the nasty urine like smell that waifs around at night... its not bad... but yea.. definately not the greenest spot in minnesota

 

They obviously aren't talking about the color green here...they mean the culture is friendly to environmentalists and veggies etc....whcih confuses me as to why Chicago is on there, thats a meat eating industrial city, and I like it for that.

Am I the only one who doesn't like Vancouver BC?

 

Brattleboro is on there but Burlington isn't?

oh well, at least Santa Fe is there

 

Yeah, I saw this list awhile ago since I have a subscription to Vegetarian Times. I was also happy about seeing Portland, Maine on there. I lived in Maine for 10 years and still go back once a year. I realized that they weren't talking green as in nature but in culture as someone already mentioned. There was also a list of the greenest towns which will probably seem a little more realistic since some of us have a hard time thinking of cities as green. . Belfast, Maine wasn't on there and neither was Ocean Beach, California which are 2 small towns that I have lived in that are green culturally if not environmentally.

 

Ooops, I'm blind...you already did put the list of towns (first) :& I just find it funny that Portland, Maine is listed as a town and not a city.