{"id":52,"date":"2008-02-25T20:27:17","date_gmt":"2008-02-26T04:27:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/2008\/02\/25\/san-francisco-named-second-greenest-city-in-us\/"},"modified":"2008-02-25T22:31:44","modified_gmt":"2008-02-26T06:31:44","slug":"san-francisco-named-second-greenest-city-in-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fogcityjournal.com\/wordpress\/52\/san-francisco-named-second-greenest-city-in-us\/","title":{"rendered":"San Francisco named second greenest city in U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/images\/photos\/solar_mapping_newsom_daly_peskin_070620\/mw2w5715_std.jpg\" height=\"303\" width=\"500\" \/><br \/>\nAn easterly view of San Francisco shows the Moscone Convention  Center with rooftop solar panels,<br \/>\none of several qualifications used by <em>Popular  Science Magazine <\/em>to nominate San Francisco<br \/>\nas the second greenest city in the  U.S.<br \/>\n<strong>City photo reproduced by Luke Thomas<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Ari Burack<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>February 25, 2008<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco is the second greenest city in the country, according to  Popular Science Magazine.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine this month released its list of &#8220;America&#8217;s 50 Greenest Cities,&#8221;  ranking them on such programs as renewable energy, transportation habits and air  quality, green buildings and public spaces, and recycling programs. The list was  compiled with data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Geographic  Society for cities with more than 100,000 residents.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--> With a rating of 23 out of 30, San Francisco ranked second on the list. The  city scored particularly high in the transportation category, which included  factors such as the number of people who either take public transportation or  carpool, and air quality.<\/p>\n<p>The magazine also commended a program that installed photovoltaic solar cells  on top of the unused 60,000-square-foot roof space of San Francisco&#8217;s Moscone  Convention Center, which provides enough electricity to power the center during  events, or 180 homes when the center is closed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;San Francisco&#8217;s environmental accomplishments continue to take national  center stage, and this ranking reflects our leadership,&#8221; said Mayor Gavin  Newsom.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With more innovation, and continued expansion of our greening and  sustainability efforts, I have no doubt that next year San Francisco will be at  the top of the list,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Portland, Ore. ranked first on the list. Other highly ranked Bay Area cities  included Oakland, ranked fourth, Berkeley seventh, Sunnyvale 13th, Santa Rosa  23rd, Concord 43rd and Fremont 44th.<\/p>\n<p>In naming its rankings, the magazine asserted that environmentally  sustainable practices were being implemented far more successfully on the local  level than on the national level.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In everything from emissions control to environmental stewardship, cities  across the country are far ahead of the federal government, and they&#8217;re  achieving their successes with ready-made technology,&#8221; the magazine wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An easterly view of San Francisco shows the Moscone Convention Center with rooftop solar panels, one of several qualifications used by Popular Science Magazine to nominate San Francisco as the second greenest city in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222],"tags":[2774,4,141,145,142,65,143],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-energy","tag-gavin-newsom","tag-greenest-city","tag-moscone","tag-popular-science-magazine","tag-san-francisco","tag-solar"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - 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