Green

The National Building Museum recently held a session on Sustainable Sites Initiative, which outlines voluntary guidelines for sustainable practices.

Residents in an Oxnard neighborhood install a community garden which will provide them with fruits and vegetables.

Consumers in India, Brazil, and China scored the highest (and those in the U.S. the lowest) in a survey conducted by National Geographic and Globescan for green behavior.

Grist lists the top 15 green-leaning mayors in America.

Green Living magazine gives kudos to Canada's leading cities in terms of energy, water, density and bike-friendliness.

Inhabitat selects their top 10, ranging from DIY bicycles to the fall of the S.U.V. Notably, transit is barely mentioned.

Thanks to industrialized agriculture, there’s a wide gulf between those who produce food and those who consume it. Too many city-dwellers lack access to nutritious, non-processed foods. Dave Steel thinks that urban agriculture is the key.

This article from Grist looks at the environmental efforts being taken in Cleveland, a historically polluted and struggling Rust Belt city.

This piece from The Tyee offers ideas about how to recreate streets into lively public green spaces.