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We wanted to present the Top 10 Green Cities in the U.S., but that would have become a whole project in itself. We'll put that in our future projects file. In the meantime, here's what Cy Yaokam of Urban Quality Communications in Michigan found for us. You might want to consider traveling to these cities to learn and bring back new green, sustainable and healthy ways to improve the Twin Cities.

Resources

Scorecard - Environmental Maps

Environmentally Healthy Metro Areas, Robert S. Weinhold

Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability, Myron Orfield 1997

Small Town periodical: A wealth of ideas on keeping small towns vital, Small Town Institute

Congress for the New Urbanism
706 Sacramento St.
Box 148
San Francisco, CA