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In a country where rivers of high fructose corn syrup flow through our food system and the food recalls never seem to stop, something really miraculous is happening. In the shadows of genetically modified corn fields and pre-made frozen peanut butter sandwiches, people are starting to see past the industrial food system that we've grown accustomed to these past 50 years. People are starting to take the American food system into their own hands and become personally invested in where and how their food is produced. People are starting to care about their food.

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.

Footnotes/Endnotes

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

The goals of macrobiotics are the realization of planetary health and happiness, world peace and human evolution. Macrobiotic, derived from the Greek word macrobios (large life), is associated worldwide with living and eating in harmony with the season. Macrobiotics embraces the 5,000-year-old philosophy of yin and yang, wherein yin represents expanding energy and yang contracting energy. Yin and yang are the building blocks found in all phenomena in varying proportion.