City Innovation
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How We Rated Cities
For city innovation, SustainLane analyzed the following categories using primary research:
- Environmentally preferable purchasing programs
- City commercial green building incentives
- City residential green building incentives
- Carpooling coordination
- Car sharing programs (public or private)
- At least one other significant city innovation or program not accounted for in the other five areas
2008 Rankings
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Mixed
Challenged
Endangered
Chicago, Portland, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle tied at number one, satisfying all six subcategories. Tied at number six are Boston, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis. The 43 cities that responded to the survey are included in this list.
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Click here to comment!This order [i.e. capitalism] is now bound to the technical and economic conditions of machine production which today determine the lives of all the individuals who are born into this mechanism, not only those directly concerned with the economic acquisition, with irresistible force. Perhaps it will so determine them until the last ton of fossilized coal is burnt. —Max Weber
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