They hit the ground on green modes of transport to take on the Green City Challenge, picking up the best of green initiatives in a city heaving with mechanical and human traffic.
Construction just commenced on a new 90, 000-square-foot store in North Portland that will be home to not only the largest green roof in the green roof-happy city of Portland, but the largest green roof in the entire state of Oregon.
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In Chicago, where I live, the city dyes the river green, parades get scandalous and the entire town toddles around in green clothes and Mardi Gras beads.
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Our day ended with a robust discussion about the future of Kansas City and the Green Impact Zone with local leaders and members of the community.
In the U.S. IBM and Cisco have long been championing the idea that city planning is the ultimate green solution.
The first tree in Reykjavik was planted in 1884 and now the city is relatively green.
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Could the city's green policy, and world in general, afford an economic recession, asked co-host Stephanie Mehta.
It also used to be described as the green city in the sun, but now it more resembles a concrete jungle.
The new apartments will replace the 10-storey tower block, The Fosters, which was seen across the city on the hills of High Green.
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The city's green bus-priority lanes, more extensive and heavily enforced than in other places, have reduced journey times by up to 25% and greatly increased passenger numbers.
Their front yard was torn up after replacing a sewer line, so instead of replacing the dirt with grass, one Oak Park woman put in a vegetable garden and now the city is seeing green.
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In the city, 182 lodges and 92 bands snaked through the city centre to Glasgow Green, where a rally was held.
Green startups have their company base in Pittsburgh because of how strongly the city welcomes and supports green technology and environmentally friendly innovation.
In Los Angeles, developers of Beverly West, a 22-story condominium with 35 residences, allotted some of the homes' premium space for closets, giving them glass walls with views of the city's skyline and green space surrounding the building.
The Supreme Court, which gave the green light to Mexico City's abortion law, is mulling whether its gay weddings infringe the constitution.
Improvements would also be made at Baxter Park, as well as paths in other parks and around the city's "green circular route".
Joan Clulow, 71, was one of the women who was part of the Abdulla group and worked as a home carer for the city council in Bartley Green and Weoley Castle for 27 years.
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"This is a major step forward, giving us the opportunity to make a big difference to the city and the region, " said Brighton and Hove City Council's Green Party leader Jason Kitcat.
Before the Communists came to power in 1949, travellers reported an eighth wonder of the world: a green if dusty city, largely unaltered from the medieval plan laid out under Kublai Khan and built upon by the Ming (1368-1644) and Qing (1644-1912) dynasties.
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For the 2010 World Cup, the city made a bold architectural statement in the new Green Point Stadium, complemented by improved infrastructure to host the hundreds of thousands of participants.
In addition to their daily City Bike Tour, this environmentally-friendly company offers a seasonal 15-mile autumn foliage tour along the Emerald Necklace, a network of parks and green spaces southwest of the city centre.
The Japanese electronics giant heads up a coalition of investors and other companies to erect a planned green district in the city of Fujisawa.
It wasn't long ago that the idea of using "green" and "city" in the same sentence seemed absurd.
During the long, 540km bus trip east along the coast from Cide to the small seaside city of Ordu, the landscape transitions from dense green forestland to rolling plains with gorgeous yellow sunflower fields to meadows dotted with wild purple grass.
Organisers say the site, near Emerson's Green to the north of the city, will create 6, 000 jobs.
The southern end of the Cross City line between Barnt Green and Bromsgrove is being electrified, said Network Rail.
There are also plans to "green" the city with more plants and trees.
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Even as the Danes, Spanish and Germans were cornering the market in turbines, the City of London was developing green-energy services.
Gwyneth Jones, of the Pound Green Commoners' Association which looks after the common, said Mr Chance probably came to the Worcestershire green to escape city life.
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