Greensboro one of the greenest
One of Monday's Short Stack items.
Greensboro made Popular Science's list of America's greenest cities. But barely.
Greensboro ranked No. 50 out of 50 cities. It is the only North Carolina city to have made the list.
The magazine used Census data and statistics from the National Geographic Society's Green Guide to compile its list. The city scored the highest in the "recycling and green perspective"category, getting 3.9 out of 5 points. "This measures how comprehensive a city's recycling program is (if the city collects old electronics, for example) and how important its citizens consider environmental issues,"says PopSci's Web site.
All in all, it's better for Greensboro to appear on the bottom of a greenest cities list than at the top of the one Charlotte found itself on recently.
U.S. News & World Report ranked the Charlotte/ Douglas International Airport as seven on its "Airport Misery Index."It based its ranking on delayed flights (28.2 percent were delayed at Charlotte) and "load factor,"or percentage of seats filled. Charlotte received an 81.8 percent ranking in that category.
Not to be a Charlotte booster, but that survey stinks. The number of people on a plane shouldn't be a consideration in such an index. Full planes aren't indicative of a miserable airport but of an economically healthy one.
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Greensboro Green? Hardly
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I can't help but think the author(s) of that hyped-up piece never left their offices and simply swallowed the Greensboro PR bait hook, line and sinker.
And the one I point out in my piece is one of hundreds.
Greensboro green? Please.
Posted on March 3, 2008 7:28 AM
Check out this http://newtogso.blogspot.com/2008/03/were-number-50.html post by the blogger New to Greensboro, who was responding to this Short Stack item in Monday's paper. He provides perspective on the city's recycling program.
An excerpt from his post:
"I am moving here from a city where recycling is the law. In fact, putting recyclables in your curbside garbage can result in a fine. Imagine my dismay when I discovered that the apartment complex my wife and I moved into, which will eventually have 300 units, does not recycle and the City does not ask them to. The apartment complex indicated that they have tried recycling at other properties but that people always contaminated them with trash and so it was too much of a hassle. I could be missing the boat, but it seems to me that requiring recycling in places such as apartment and condominium complexes is a no-brainer. It is likely that this type of housing generates much more recyclable materials than any others. Think of 300 people moving into a new apartment complex and all of the cardboard boxes ending up in the landfill."
Thanks to Ed Cone for picking up on this new blog.
Posted on March 4, 2008 11:02 AM