Reenita's Wisdom

Who says that San Francisco is about hippie fashion? Thanks to Yetunde Schumann and the Innovative Fashion Council of San Francisco, the Pacific metropolis is rapidly becoming identified with sustainable and environmentally conscious fashion. Indeed, Sixth Street is going the way of Seventh Avenue.

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As the world continues to be shaken up by horror stories on Wall Street, it might be worth taking a few steps back to consider your immediate quality of life.

SustainLane, a San Francisco based green media company has just announced its brand new U.S. city rankings. Starting in 2005, SustainLane went through an exorbitant examination of sustainability initiatives in U.S. cities looking at a variety of factors: average traffic commutes, affordable housing, waste diversion, green space, energy usage, green buildings, natural disaster risk, air quality, water quality, public transportation, local food sources, and government innovations. James Elsen, the founder of SustainLane explains it in his article What’s A Sustainable City, Anyway ? [...]