Color Chattanooga Green
Published Jun 24, 2008
Color Chattanooga Green
Chattanooga has been named one of 12 “Smart(ish) Cities” for sustainability initiatives.
Grist.org, a Seattle-based Web site devoted to environmental reporting and commentary, said Chattanooga had embraced sustainability as long ago as the early 1980s and was “decidedly ahead of the curve in the green-city arena” until the movement “waned in the late 1990s amid concerns about job growth.”
Recently, though, an effort led by Mayor Ron Littlefield “is putting sustainability back in the spotlight, and Chattanooga is back on track.”
Other urban areas cited by Grist.org were Albuquerque, N.M., Arlington, Va., Atlanta, Cleveland, Dallas, Las Vegas, Milwaukee, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, Syracuse, N.Y., and Tampa, Fla. The Web site said all 12 had “signs of unexpected urban progress” and had “set out to make the green grade against all odds.”
– Maurice Fliess
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