Milwaukee : 12th Most Sustainable City

Milwaukee, Wisconsin. My home for the last 2.5 years. And the U.S.’s 12th most sustainable city?

SustainLane is a new website that uses contributions submitted by citizens around the country to rank cities on 16 attributes of sustainability. By these measures, Milwaukee ranks #12. This is an improvement from #16 two years ago.

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Given the empahsis on sustainability in the city and at the state level, I would expect this ranking to improve year over year. We might not catch Portland, but I bet we could make the top 10 in the next decade.

For reference, here are the current rankings for 2008:

  1. Portland, OR
  2. San Francisco, CA
  3. Seattle, WA
  4. Chicago, IL
  5. New York, NY
  6. Boston, MA
  7. Minneapolis, MN
  8. Philadelphia, PA
  9. Oakland, CA
  10. Baltimore, MD

On Milwaukee!

Filed under Milwaukee, climate change, environment : Comments (2) : Sep 22nd, 2008 by tadfad

2 Responses to “Milwaukee : 12th Most Sustainable City”

  1. Paul G. Says:
    September 22nd, 2008 at 9:20 pm

    Yay Philly!

  2. kori! Says:
    September 23rd, 2008 at 2:38 pm

    Check out Minneapolis! WooHoo! p.s. tad I tell people to check out your site all the time…im addicted!

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