Kansas City offers a nice reminder that green practices can be beautifully functional: the 200-plus fountains around the city first began during the 19th century as clean drinking sources, erected over natural springs. Today, readers gave the city top marks for its barbecue, and one of the most buzzed-about barbecue joints is The Local Pig, which prides itself on using only local, humanely raised livestock. In the name of good reusing, Kansas City also ranked at No. 1 for flea markets—like the jewelry, tchotchkes, and old-style radios at River Market Antiques. The city will likely boost its mass transit ranking in 2016, when its new public streetcar starts rolling. In the meantime, KC also excelled at one serious anti-waste category: it won the survey for being affordable
No. 3 Charleston
The South Carolina city won the bronze for greenness by sticking with old-fashioned qualities that have turned out to be fabulously eco-friendly, too. The daily harbor sails on the 84-foot wooden Schooner Pride use just wind energy, the high-end antique stores on King Street are masters of re-using, and the high-ranking notable restaurants—many focusing on the region’s Low Country cuisine—celebrate local ingredients. At the farm-to-fork Park Café, for instance, they use every bit of the pig, just like Granny used to, in dishes like the pork confit biscuit and the pork-belly-and-sausage cassoulet (vegetarians, meanwhile, should try the popular avocado toast). To take advantage of the city’s high ranking for walkability, take one of the antebellum mansions tours from tour operator Charleston Strolls.
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