Featured Communities

Part I: What Kind of Community is Green?

Remediating, Repurposing, Reinvigorating

• Atlantic Station, Atlanta, Georgia
• Mona Terrace, Muskegon Heights, Michigan
• Highlands’ Garden Village, Denver, Colorado

Getting Around

• Portland, Oregon
• Bogotá, Colombia
• Masdar City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Land Conservation

• The Village at the Galisteo Basin Preserve, New Mexico
• Prairie Crossing, Grayslake, Illinois
• Stella, Missouri

Resourcefulness

• Greensburg, Kansas
• Hali'imaile, Maui, Hawaii
• Mendoza, Argentina

Waste

• Garden of Hope, Guatemala City, Guatemala
• Compost and Green Waste Recycling Program, San Francisco, California
• Communites-At-Large (film)

Close to Home

• Washington, D.C.
• Arlington County, Virginia
• Montgomery County Public Schools, Maryland

Part II: How Can We Make Communities Green?

Earth

Edible Landscape

• Center for Urban Agriculture, proposed for Seattle, Washington,
• Village Homes, Davis, California
• Geothermal Energy
• California University of Pennsylvania, California, Pennsylvania
• Iceland

Xeriscape and Native Planting

• Xeriscape ColoradoÔ program, Colorado WaterWise Council,

Air

Wind Energy

• Middelgrunden Wind Cooperative, Copenhagen, Denmark

Natural Cooling

• Savannah, Georgia

Emissions Reduction

• Bike Starkville sidewalk and bike path project, Starkville, Mississippi
• London, England, United Kingdom

Fire

Solar Energy

• Solar Decathlon, Washington, D.C. (film)
• Solar photovoltaics in communities around the world

Water

Gray-and Blackwater Recycling

• Santa Monica Urban Runoff Recycling Facility (SMURRF), Santa Monica, California

Natural Wetlands Restoration

• Lake Calumet Region,  Illinois

Damless Hydropower

• Roosevelt Island Tidal Energy (RITE) project, New York, New York