Petaluma, A Top Green City?

Filed under: Sonoma County — joy at 9:20 am on Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Apparently, I live in the fourth greenest city in the U.S. They ranked the locations based on “energy policies, green power, green buildings, and the availability of fresh, locally grown food.” Well, we certainly have the last thing. It’s very easy to eat locally here, and I do. (Sometimes very locally.)

For some reason, Petaluma is tied with Santa Rosa on the list. I’m not so sure about that. Santa Rosa isn’t really green. It’s more of a murky brown with a greenish tinge on top. Kidding! But hey, thanks Country Home magazine for the thought.

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Comment by Eric

April 25, 2008 @ 3:37 pm

You know, from reading the formatting on that list, I suspect that it’s not that Petaluma and Santa Rosa were “tied”, but that the ranking is for some size of metropolitan areas and Santa Rosa and Petaluma are treated as one entity for this. You should probably consider Cotati, Rohnert Park and Sebastopol to be covered by that entry.

Also: Petaluma totally sucks at being green on one of my key criteria: it’s nearly impossible to bicycle into, at least from the north. (or to bicycle out of, heading north)

Comment by Leona

April 26, 2008 @ 12:21 pm

Petluma is greener than Eugene? I am shocked! The one thing I though Eugene was besting P-Town on. Hmm.

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