The Greenest Green I've Ever Seen Is In Seattle, Also Austin & Dallas

An entity called the Natural Resources Defense Council surveyed 655 cities with a population over 250,000, trying to determine various cities' level of greenness and sustainability.

Categories evaluated were air quality, green building, green space, energy production, conservation, recycling, transportation and water quality.

The Emerald City of the Evergreen State came in #1 in air quality, energy production and conservation. Seattle fell to 5th in transportation. Which surprises me. It would seem it would be way lower. As in it is so easy to drive around this D/FW Metroplex, where I'm currently being held hostage, compared to driving around Seattle. Then again, it is easy to get around Seattle on mass transit, unlike here, except in Dallas, which has excellent mass transit

When it was all tallied Seattle came in #1 as the Greenest City in America. Two Texas towns were in the Top 15. Austin at #6 and quite surprisingly, Dallas at #14. I have no idea where Fort Worth is on the 655 rankings. I suspect, with it being the only large city in America to allow urban drilling all over its town, that there's a chance Fort Worth came in #655.

When Fort Worth was named on a short list by a Washington, D.C. lobbying group, something to do with Best Urban Villages, Fort Worth had a city-wide celebration for this extremely prestigious honor, an honor which other towns, that got the same "honor," recognized as a self-serving bogus deal meant to promote the lobbying group. An "honor" that the mouthpiece of Fort Worth's Ruling Junta, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram opined would make other cities, far and wide, green with envy.

Seattle is not having a city wide celebration for this most recent thing for which has been ranked #1. I wonder what sort of celebration Fort Worth would have if were ever ranked #1 for something good? The mind boggles. Well, we do have the #1 Dog Park in America, according to Dog Fancy Magazine. I've long thought a city-wide celebration was in order for that.

Anyway, here's the Top 15 Greenest Cities in America. #1 Seattle, #2 San Francisco, #3 Portland, Oregon, #4 Oakland, California, #5 San Jose, California, #6 Austin, #7 Sacramento, #8 Boston, #9 Denver, #10 Chicago, #11 San Diego, #12 New York City, #13 Los Angeles, #14 Dallas, #15 Columbus, Ohio.