The Environment - Another Reason to Relocate to Albuquerque

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Albuquerque, New Mexico is a great place to live. The almost 450 thousand people who live in the city can give you many reasons to support this statement. Albuquerque's Top Picks, and now they have another - the environment.

In 2006, Mayor Martin Chavez and the city of Albuquerque beat several other cities from around the world to receive top recognition for water sustainability. In addition, the mayor and the city also beat 90 other cities around the nation for the number 1 spot as the greenest United States city: http://www.albuquerquegreen.com/.

To promoting a healthy environment and maintain his leadership position as mayor ot the greenest US city, the mayor urges city residents to focus on air quality, healthy trees, alternative transportation, alternative fuels, green building, global warming, and recycling. The city has issued guidelines for sustainable actions in the house, in the garden, while shopping, while moving around the city, and in the community: http://www.cabq.gov/sustainability/greenguide. Even the film industry has sustainability guidelines:Green Section - Film Office - City of Albuquerque.

Everyone, visitors, newcomers and longtime residents have only to download themayor's Q Guide to be a part of the loop of those working towards protecting the environment and sustainability.

Maintaining a healthy environment supports our real estate insustry.[. Not only are we building green, we are endeavouring to keep our city clean, healthy, and sustainable for generations to come. As a result, we have increasing numbers of gold-level green residential and commercial buildings and, for the first time ever in our city, an all-green residential community under construction, complete with photovoltaic electricity, Public Utility of New Mexico (PNM) net metering, and solar hot water.

The mayor is trying to make sure that green Albuquerque is not only the business of government officials but of every resident, efforts that today on Blog Action Day, link us with people of like mind worldwide.