Mirror Mirror On The Wall Who Is The Greenest US City Of All? It's NOT Who You Think

The oil and natural gas capital of the world is going all-in on solar power.

Houston will begin a new five-year contact in July with NRG Energy Inc. to power all of its city-owned properties, from fire stations to airports, with renewable energy. The move means the nation’s fourth-largest city will reach its goal of 100% renewable power five years sooner than anticipated.

It’s just the latest milestone for a community that’s quietly been going green for more than a decade. Mayor Sylvester Turner, who is actively courting Elon Musk to relocate Tesla Inc. and SpaceX to Houston, hopes the deal maxing out municipal use of renewable power will help change the image of a city best known for the oil and gas companies that do business there.

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qwertyfla1 - 5/28/2020 10:47:18 AM

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You mean solar panels that are made by burning met dirty coal and silica together to make the glass for these 20 year or less short life span and non recyclable mechanisms that take more "dirty energy" to make than they will actually produce over a lifetime of use. This is like putting the white wedding dress on the street hooker before you marry here. Pure feel good BS that will accomplish nothing and is only window dressing. We need real solutions not this green energy myth that isn't really green after all...

MDarringer - 5/28/2020 11:00:39 AM

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Striving to be the greenest city is striving to be the most ideologically clusterfucked city. It would be like striving to be Canada. Why???

mre30 - 5/28/2020 12:44:10 PM

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By definition, cities are not 'green'.

By they way, the whole 'green building' trend is a fallacy as well. Its a PR stunt designed to sell over priced building products.

The only way cities become 'green' is when the humans move out of them.

I can unequivocally say, that NYC is the greenest city in America because many of the humans have moved out, there is virtually zero vehicular activity, and its summer, so the buildings' oil-fired furnaces are off.

Once all the people move back, NYC will no longer be as green.

Really the only criteria for whether or not a building is green should be how low the heat is kept in the winter and how warm the AC is kept in the summer, with special mention as to how many electrically powered things are unplugged.

To simplify - the presence of humans, makes a city 'dirty'.

Its that simple. Anything else is BS.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/28/2020 4:28:07 PM

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Good for Houston. The example you really want to follow if you have a flat-ish city is Copenhagen. So many trips on bikes and dedicated paths away from traffic just for bicycles.

vdiv - 5/28/2020 4:32:30 PM

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Ever been in Houston in a 42'C 100% humidity soup? Bike?! You can't even stand still in that!

MDarringer - 5/28/2020 5:47:24 PM

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I want communistcomments to go biking in Houston in a 42'C 100% humidity soup and let nature take care of him.

CANADIANCOMMENTS - 5/28/2020 6:25:52 PM

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We just had 39C with humidity weather here in the Toronto GTA. Still lots of people out on a bike. But likely not many between 10-2pm to be clear. And even though it gets cold in the winter you still see people out who dress for it.

vdiv - 5/29/2020 1:24:16 AM

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Actually Toronto reached 25'C, 69% RH on the 25th and 26th of May, was below 20'C during the morning and evening commute, not nearly the same. Lets not talk about distances either, Houston Metro area is five times that of Toronto.
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