The Kentucky city made an eye-catching debut on the survey this year, ranking in the top 20 for its endearingly quirky locals. Some of the city’s greenest features, too, are nicely offbeat: downtown’s ReSurfaced is a pop-up plaza of art, music and a beer garden, built on a former vacant lot with old shipping containers and bamboo. While Louisville didn’t make the top 20 this year for parks, readers may not have seen all of them: Louisville Mega Cavern-made with recycled concrete, brick, rock and dirt-features the world’s only fully underground zip line, as well as the new Underground Bike Park. Meanwhile, in the NuLu neighborhood, Harvest is farmer-owned and decorated with photos of other local farmer suppliers; Louisville made the top 10 for its burgers, and Harvest’s contributions include burgers topped with smoked chevre and hog-jowl-bacon jam.
No. 13 Honolulu
The Hawaiian city has long known the benefits of being green: eating local costs less than importing everything else, and driving an electric car helps mitigate the islands’ high fuel costs (if you rent an electric car, hotels like the Sheraton Waikiki and The Royal Hawaiian have charging stations). The locals also get credit for recycling their timeless fashion sense; you can replicate the look by shopping for a vintage aloha shirt at Bailey’s Antiques & Aloha Shirts, on Kapahulu Ave., or picking up a skirt, top, or even throw pillow at Mu’uMu’u Heaven, which upcycles using “vintage aloha fashions.” Those vivid patterns are clearly flattering: these Hawaiians made the top 10 for being good-looking.
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