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The Most Sustainable City In America

Over the last few weeks, I reached out to sustainability experts around the world, crunched a bunch of numbers, and asked all of you for help finding the most sustainable city in America. Here's what I learned. - Distilled

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Cities
The Suburbs Are Literally Killing the Planet
We Went To a Texas Town Emptied By ICE Raids
24 Hours In an Illegal, Car-free Community
What Does a Solarpunk City Look Like?
The Absolute Best Transportation for Cities
How Two Billionaires Erased a Rural Ohio Town
Public Banking 101
LAFD: Design For Disaster - The Story of the Bel Air Conflagration
The Future Is Local: Bioregioning 101
This Detroit Agrihood is Transforming its Community - Michigan Urban Farming Initiative Tour
Transforming Cities, Changing the System
Closer to Home: Voices of Hope in a Time of Crisis (2024)
The Power of Local: Community Solutions to Our Global Crisis (2024)
Alter Nativas: Building Possible Futures (2023)
How This Car-Free Neighborhood Unlocks Sustainable Cities
This is [Not] Who We Are (trailer)
It's Basic (trailer)
How the US Property Tax System Robs The Poor to Pay For The Wealthy
How To Build A Solarpunk City
Even Small Towns are Great Here (5 Years in the Netherlands)
15-Minute Cities for Leftists
We the Power | The Future of Energy is Community-Owned (2021)
How to Turn Your Neighborhood into a Village
How to Bring Back Front Yard Businesses
How 15-Minute Cities Are Shaking Up the World
A Quiet Revolution: Seed Sovereignty in the City
Beautiful No Dig Permaculture Kitchen Garden
Cities Aren't Loud: Cars Are Loud
The Orange Pill: There's Something Wrong With Suburbia
Why the Suburbs Are Terrible for Us (and the Planet)
When Trees Meet Buildings
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
The Modern Eco Village | BedZED
Planet Local: A Quiet Revolution (2022)
Why We Won't Raise Our Kids in Suburbia
Sustainability
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Inhabitants: Indigenous Perspectives On Restoring Our World (2021)
The Nature of Cities (2010)
The New Economics 101: True Wealth in the New Economy (2013)
School Circles: Democratic Schools in the Netherlands (2018)
Walled Off: Banksy, Palestine and the Struggle for Freedom (2024)
We Are Many (2020)
Constructing Public Opinion: How Politicians & the Media Misrepresent the Public (2001)
The Wisdom To Survive (2014)
To The Ends of the Earth (2016)
Affluenza (1997)
Invisible Hand: Who Will Speak For Nature? (2020)
Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective (2015)
A Bold Peace: Costa Rica's Path of Demilitarization (2016)
Paradise with Side Effects (2004)
Biophilic Design: The Architecture of Life (2011)
A Convenient Truth: Urban Solutions from Curitiba, Brazil (2006)
Captive Audience: Advertising Invades the Classroom (2003)
Peace, Propaganda, & The Promised Land: US Media & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003)
Broken On All Sides: Race, Mass Incarceration and New Visions for Criminal Justice (2012)
Shift Change: True Stories of Dignified Jobs in Democratic Workplaces (2013)
Redefining Prosperity (2018)
Self-Taught: Life Stories From Self-Directed Learners (2019)
Freedom Ahead: Democracy Does Not Offer Freedom, Nature Does (2012)
The Great Disconnect (2020)
Dysfunctional Societies: How Equality Makes Societies Stronger (2015)
Overload: America's Toxic Love Story (2019)
Call Of Life: Facing The Mass Extinction (2010)
Accidental Anarchist (2017)
Let Them Eat Dirt: The Hunt For Our Kids' Missing Microbes (2019)
Freedom of Expression: Resistance & Repression in the Age of Intellectual Property (2007)
Fly By Light: A Film about Discovering Your True Nature (2015)
The Myth of the Liberal Media: The Propaganda Model of News (1997)
Spiritually Incorrect (2020)
Ancient Futures: Learning From Ladakh (1993)
The Staging Post: Courageous People Never Give Up! (2017)
The Sequel: What Will Follow Our Troubled Civilisation? (2020)
Within Reach: Journey to Find Sustainable Community (2013)
Blood and Oil (2008)
Abundant Land: Soil, Seeds and Sovereignty (2017)
A Quest For Meaning (2017)
Advertising & The End of The World (1997)
Capitalism Hits The Fan (2008)
The Next American Revolution: Beyond Corporate Capitalism & State Socialism (2013)
The Occupation of the American Mind: Israel's Public Relations War in the United States (2016)
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008)
The Third Harmony: Nonviolence and the New Story of Human Nature (2020)
The Village of Lovers: a Blueprint for Creating Cultures of Peace (2025)
Oyler: Can a School Save a Community? (2015)
GIFT: The Imagination Creates the Future (2018)
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