Seattle Rated #1 Smartest City

I ran into a website called Smarter Cities, a project of the Natural Resources Defense Council. The website provides rankings and great informational pieces on environmental progress/sustainability in large, medium sized, and smaller cities in the USA.

Really it’s no surprise that Seattle was ranked at the top of the large city list…Seattlites are certainly aficionados of Green living! We’ve also been ranked the ‘healthiest city’, ‘smartest (intelligence wise, as well; we do have Bill Gates and co., Boeing, Amazon…beat that, other cities) city’, and ‘strongest real estate market’ in the nation, oh, and, (haha,)  ironically, ‘most sunglasses owned/bought per capita’!

Here are the stats by criteria; San Francisco followed us overall at #2.

Overall ranking: #1
Standard of living: #4
Green building: #1
Air quality: #1
Environmental standards and participation: #9
Transportation: #5
Recycling: #3
Green space: #2
Energy production and conservation:#1
Water quality: #4

To view these stats in more detail, visit their site!

Thanks to Gabe who referred me to this!

Amy Kizaki
Buyer’s Agent
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amy@seattlepowersearch.com