Fargo ranks #1 for overall environment in EDN poll

This recent poll was brought to our attention at City Hall by a California journalist. 

It is a poll done by a group called Earth Day Network. 

Fargo can be proud of the foresight and good work done by city staff like Enterprise Director Bruce Grubb and City Administrator Pat Zavoral along with leaders like Jon Lindgren, Bruce Furness and others that served on earlier commissions. 

Fargo and our region has much more progress to make in this exciting area.  The city of Fargo and it's citizens are working hard to be leaders in environmentally responsible conservation and renewable energy development. We have a great opportunity in our area to keep the momentum growing toward an even cleaner, greener community that embraces conservation of land, water, energy along with developing more of our areas home grown, terror free, renewable energy sources.

It's not only good for our environment, it's also good for growing, sustaining and diversifying our economy and energy sources.

Here's the site:

Note:

• All rank information is out of 72 cities, though not all cities may have

scores/data in every category.1 is the 'best' (least polluting, most educated, etc)

and 72 is the 'worst'.

• Use of the asterisk (*) after the city name indicates year 2000 data was used

in instances where 2005 or 2004 Census data was not available 

As North Dakota native General Chuck Wald says: 

"The United States energy challenge is North Dakota's great opportunity!"

Posted by: mjwilliams on 2/24/2007 at 2:36 PM | Comments (1) | Permalink