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turn out to be 14 percent greener than their country cousins.
Key factors behind their lower per capita carbon dioxide
emissions include population density and greater use of mass
Earth 911 transit.
Find a Place to Recycle Almost Heavier carbon footprint metros are overwhelmingly
Everything east of the Mississippi and in America’s fast-suburbanizing
Southeast. The lighter carbon profiles reside in the est. W
Simply type in a product category and Winners include: New
city or zip code, and the easy-to-use York-Northern New Jersey,
Earth911.org search engine pulls up a Portland, Seattle-Tacoma,
list of neighboring Earth-friendly centers San Francisco, Honolulu,
to drop off everything from pesticides to appliances to paints. San Diego and Los Angeles.
More than 250 items are categorized as automotive, house- Researchers note that hydro-
hold, lawn and garden, paper, plastics or electronics. power is a common benefac-
Each list of local recycling and reuse centers supplied by tor in the Pacific Northwest.
the site comes complete with street addresses, phone num- The biggest carbon
bers, websites and pertinent details. Or, as an alternative, generators were in the Midwest, notable for their reliance
dial their 1-800-CleanUp toll-free hotline. on coal for electricity and natural gas for heating, a shortage
Both services are provided at no cost to the user or of mass transit, and often older, energy-inefficient buildings.
taxpayer. Cities in Kentucky, Ohio and Indiana rode the bottom tier,
with Lexington, Kentucky, at the bottom.
State officials, mayors and county leaders are making
Metro Surprise a difference. But, “Metros can’t go it alone in solving [so]
Green Cities Pattern Success vast a problem,” remarks Mark Muro, policy director of The
Brookings Institution’s Metropolitan Policy Program. The
A 2008 Brookings Institution survey of the carbon footprint of federal government must play a far more constructive and
America’s top 100 metro areas discovered that, while cities supportive role.
are hot spots for global warming, the people living in them Source: Brookings.edu
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