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Old 09-24-2007, 10:03 PM
 
Location: Up in a cedar tree.
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Austin came in #2

The Top 10 Greenest Cities - Yahoo! Real Estate (http://promo.realestate.yahoo.com/the_top_ten_greenest_cities.html - broken link)
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:30 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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I read that too.
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:36 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Austin came in #2
Well, not really. From the article:

We've picked 10 places -- in no particular order -- that we think are doing a great job at putting residents first.
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:39 PM
 
Location: Hutto, Tx
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Oh, well. It still made the top ten....
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Old 09-24-2007, 10:57 PM
 
Location: Up in a cedar tree.
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Well my grass is green. That helps
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Old 09-24-2007, 11:12 PM
 
Location: Austin, TX
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Well my grass is green. That helps
Mine is this year from all the rain, though it was brown and crunchy the years before!
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Old 09-25-2007, 06:04 AM
 
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Just enough variety on that list to make sure realtor.com can sell regional advertising anywhere in the country.

That list carries about as much water as those subdivision reviews in the Sunday paper that are written by the developers.
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Old 09-25-2007, 09:37 AM
 
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Just enough variety on that list to make sure realtor.com can sell regional advertising anywhere in the country.

That list carries about as much water as those subdivision reviews in the Sunday paper that are written by the developers.
i think you might be right.
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Old 09-25-2007, 11:25 AM
 
Location: WA
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There is a real price to the Portland path to green...

The refusal to expand the freeway system (and the funneling of transportation dollars into mass transit and bike paths) has resulted in high levels of traffic congestion. The restrictions on development to reduce sprawl has resulted in high home prices and limited choices. Development restrictions and higher costs have led to some business exits.

There are hard choices to make and too often the result aids a few at a cost to many.
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Old 09-25-2007, 11:39 AM
 
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There is a real price to the Portland path to green...

The refusal to expand the freeway system (and the funneling of transportation dollars into mass transit and bike paths) has resulted in high levels of traffic congestion. The restrictions on development to reduce sprawl has resulted in high home prices and limited choices. Development restrictions and higher costs have led to some business exits.

There are hard choices to make and too often the result aids a few at a cost to many.
some of the same has happened in Boulder. according to at least one source, Boulder county's air quality and emissions content is actually rather poor.

is there much sprawl DUE to the "progressive policies" of portland? Boulder has seen a bit of that.
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