Sustainable Selection magazine has named the Denver area as the nation’s third most sustainable metro area in the country.
According to the Denver Business Journal, the rankings are based on, “the cities’ number of “green” industry projects as tracked by the Conway Data New Plant Database in 2008, 2009 and early 2010; the number and per-capita rate of “Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design,” or LEED, certified projects, signifying energy-efficient building design; and the local level of incentives for green projects, among other factors.” Denver falls behind San Francisco, California, and Portland, Oregon, in …