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Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
Way to go Ithaca and Binghamton!!!
This was in today's Examiner's Newspaper. Who Knew??
BURLINGTON, Vt. - The city of Ben & Jerry's founding, Phish and the University of Vermont now has a new claim to fame - AMERICA's MOST ECO-FREINDLY PLACE.
So says Country Home magazine, which ranked Burlington tops among 379 metropolitan areas in a "Best Green Places" survey that rated cities based on air and watershed quality, mass transit use, power use and number of organic producers and farmers' markets.
Using data from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Transportation, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Green Building Council, the survey rated Ithaca, N.Y., second; Corvallis, Ore., third; Springfield, Mass., fourth; and Wenatchee, Wash., fifth.
Charlottesville, Va.; Boulder, Colo.; Madison, Wis.; Binghamton, N.Y.; and Champaign-Urbana, Ill.; rounded out the top 10.



