G-Force -- It's easy being green: Seattle is the top environmental city in America

Categories evaluated by the NRDC, included air quality, green building, green space, energy production and conservation, recycling, transportation and water quality.

Seattle greenest in energy production and conservation; Link light rail improves transportation

Seattle was number one in green building, air quality, and energy production and
conservation, thanks largely to it being the largest user of the biggest wind farm project in the nation, the Stateline Windfarm near Walla Walla (see video). Seattle came in second behind Portland in green space. It ranked fourth -- trailing San Jose and San Francisco in California, and Virginia Beach, Va. -- in standard of living, but fell to fifth in transportation.

"Congestion remains a problem for Seattle, but the city is finishing a light rail system to link its downtown core to SeaTac Airport, scheduled for completion by the end of 2009," the study noted.

The 15 top ranking cities in the NRDC study are: Seattle, San Francisco, Portland, Oakland, Calif.; San Jose; Austin, Texas; Sacramento, Calif.; Boston; Denver, Co.; Chicago, Ill.; San Diego, Calif.; New York, N.Y.; Los Angeles; Dallax, Tx; and Columbus, Ohio.

Below is a video of several renewable energy  resources in the Pacific Northwest: a description of the Stateline Windfarm project is at minute 1:40 of the video.

David Kuhns is Seattle's Green Living Examiner, and can be found at www.cyranowriter.com, and reached at cyrano@cyranowriter.com

 Here is a list of other ways Seattle is involved in being green, with comparisons to the movies "Twilight" and "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince".