Greensboro makes PopSci's list of Greenest Cities. We're #50 out of 50, the only North Carolina city to make the cut. (Thanks to alert reader ER for the tip.)
We've discussed the general lameness of magazine lists here many times, but it's probably better to be on the positive ones than not to be on them.
From the comments at the site: "This is actually kind of disheartening. Seriously, on a 30 point scale, the 50th cleanest city only has 10 points? And, only 12 cities score in the 20's."
Another commenter, a student from GSO, says the Proximity Hotel and the Haw River Park victory show we are doing pretty well.
What a crock. So many cities in NC, particularly Asheville and Chapel Hill, are kicking the stuffing out of Greensboro on being green. The relentless expansion of 840 and an economic development strategy based on the FedEx hub dwarf any good one hotel built by one developer could do.
The Proximity itself is tremendously green internally, but turns its back on the street and is really a pedestrian-hostile suburban building. The builder (I heard him speak at the NC Energy Forum two weeks ago) is really a tremendous individual, but that's to his credit, not the city's.
The complete ignorance of how much the nearly complete auto dependence of life in Greensboro contributes to being a non-green city is unquestioned and undiscussed.
Posted by: Undercover Urbanist | Feb 26, 2008 at 11:10 AM