{"id":2576,"date":"2012-04-02T20:28:29","date_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=2576"},"modified":"2012-04-02T20:28:29","modified_gmt":"2012-04-03T00:28:29","slug":"travel-leisure-savannah-is-2nd-greenest-city-in-america-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/02\/travel-leisure-savannah-is-2nd-greenest-city-in-america-huh\/","title":{"rendered":"Travel + Leisure: Savannah is 2nd &#8220;greenest&#8221; city in America . . . huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Medium Rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8584504377\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>I guess it all depends on what we mean by green.<\/p>\n<p>The main page of the T+L&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/americas-greenest-cities\/1\" target=\"_blank\">America&#8217;s Greenest Cities<\/a> first makes it sound like we&#8217;re talking about &#8220;eco-friendly&#8221; policies, but the actual methodology combines other readers&#8217; polls: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To determine the greenest cities, we tallied the results from three survey categories: cleanliness, pedestrian-friendliness and public transit, and great public parks, which offset that urban asphalt and improve air quality. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Savannah has some amazing parks, and is pedestrian-friendly in neighborhoods built created before @1920, but that&#8217;s hardly enough to warrant the second slot here. If the magazine is going to throw around words like &#8220;green&#8221;, they&#8217;re pretty much obligated to take a look at energy sources, recycling efficiency, pollution, building standards, and the like.<\/p>\n<p>From the Savannah description <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelandleisure.com\/articles\/americas-greenest-cities\/3\" target=\"_blank\">for its 2nd place finish<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The winner in the parks category is old-school green, famous for its quaint, walkable streets and its 22 tree-lined squares, which date back to 1733. That relaxed, healthy atmosphere has apparently rubbed off on everyone else, too: the locals ranked near the top of the survey for being friendly, and the city won the category for romance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Old-school green&#8221; &#8212; I like that.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we all know that polls like this are basically meant to drive internet traffic and sell magazines, but that doesn&#8217;t make it completely irrelevant that Savannah performs so consistently well in them &#8212; even ones that make little sense.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:4px 0 4px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-5595881567027133\";\r\n\/* Another large rectangle *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0042810896\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 336;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 280;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I guess it all depends on what we mean by green.<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2012\/04\/02\/travel-leisure-savannah-is-2nd-greenest-city-in-america-huh\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[95],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Screen-shot-2012-04-02-at-8.30.03-PM.png?fit=681%2C500","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-Fy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}