Lists

A couple

Posted by David Roberts at 7:49 AM on 18 Apr 2007

Here are two lists, for those of you into that kind of thing:

First, Sustainlane -- which seems to produce a list every few weeks, no? -- has a list of the Top Ten Cities for Renewable Energy. That's the cities that provide citizens with the most green power. They are:

1. Oakland, CA
2. Sacramento/SF/San Jose, CA (tie)
3. Portland, OR
4. Boston, MA
5. San Diego, CA
6. Austin, TX
7. Los Angeles, CA
8. Minneapolis, MN
9. Seattle, WA
10. Chicago, IL

Oakland, huh? Maybe Van's doing something right. Read the whole thing for details.

Second, from Forbes via MSNBC, a list of the Top 12 Greenest Cars of 2007. Six are hybrids, and six are "just old-fashioned, gas-powered vehicles that happen to be small and efficient, with low emissions."

Annoyingly, the story never just lists the cars, so I can't reproduce the list here, but it's a reasonably interesting story.

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The cars listed

Dave, just click here.

These are only my personal opinions.

by Ron Steenblik at 8:43 AM on 18 Apr 2007

Some perspective

Ranking cities by the number of participants in green power programs is one thing, but it's helpful to put the relative starting points in perspective.

Seattle's fuel mix is predominately hydro (86.5%), with wind (3%), nuclear (4.2%), natural gas (5.2%) and only a small amount of coal (0.89%), so was producing very few emissions to begin with.

Portland gets electricity from two utilities, Pacificorp with (80% coal, 8% natural gas) and Portland General Electric (40+% coal, 8% natural gas), so had/has more 'need' to offset emissions with green power.

Common sense is an oxymoron...

by Engineer at 2:40 PM on 18 Apr 2007

Speaking of lists...

Don't know if this has been mentioned, but in Canada, Ontario has become the "first jurisdiction in North America - to commit to a ban on inefficient lighting", phasing out incandescent light bulbs by 2012. I like the way they say it's not soon enough. Story here. Apologies if it's been spotted already, but I couldn't see anything on here.

If I share initials with 'Global Warming', is that a sign?

by tico89 at 7:50 PM on 18 Apr 2007

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