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Portland, Eugene Among Top 40 Sustainable U.S. Cities
Commercial Café recently released its findings of the top 40 most sustainable U.S. cities, with 6 of the top 10 located on the West Coast.
PORTLAND, OR — Both Portland and Eugene made the list of Top 40 Sustainably Powered U.S. Cities as identified by real estate blog Commercial Café. Coming in at #4 and #8, respectively, Portland and Eugene were among the six West Coast cities making up the top 10 sustainably powered U.S. cities.
Rounding out the top 10 are Hayward, CA (#10), Washington D.C. (#9), Boulder, CO (#7), Minneapolis (#6), Boston (#5), Oakland (#3), Seattle (#2), and San Francisco (#1).
Commercial Café ranked each of the 40 cities by measuring and assigning a point scheme to each city's use of varying power sources — such as hydropower, geothermal, solar, wind, and biomass, as well as energy sources that negatively impacted the city's individual score, such as coal, oil, gas, and nuclear thermal power plants.
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Commercial Café also reportedly examined each city's cycling and walking community as well as the numbers of electric vehicle charging stations each city has.
To read Commercial Café's full report and methodology for ranking each city, check out the study at CommercialCafe.com.
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