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The Canadian Press reports that in the area of urban sustainability, Vancouver, Toronto and Yellowknife are leaders in each of their respective categories: big cities with a population over 700,000, medium cities with a population over 250,000 and small cities with a population under 250,000.
With recent stimulus plans providing incentive to shift towards a greener economy and with many nations establishing eco-friendly goals for the future, the race is on to become the world’s greenest nation. To actually compare and rank so many varied and intricate ‘entities’ seems an impossible feat. But researchers at Yale and Columbia Universities have done just that.
Are ‘eco-geeks’ who take green to the extreme actually accomplishing an eco-feat, something to be proud of and deserving of our accolades? Or are their actions simply eco-stunts, carried out by individuals only trying to get attention?
Where do you look if you’re a city aspiring to go green? California feels you should take a trip, no, not to that sunny state, but to their Best Practices website and take a gander at advice from the pros. Green Cities California is an online storehouse of information compiled by 10 cities and counties that are considered leaders in groundbreaking environmental policy.
When huge, world-famous corporations, such as the Coca-Cola Company, announce plans to cut their carbon footprint, it always sounds like a good thing. At first. The problem is, many of these behemoth businesses have a reputation that precedes them.
In the context of today’s world, ‘consuming’ and ‘balance’ in the same sentence seems to be an oxymoron.Wordpress theme provided by diythemes.
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