The super greenies are healthy, wealthy and growing in number

Minneapolis has more than the national average

August 16, 2011 at 4:16PM
(The Minnesota Star Tribune)

Super Greenies, you know who you are. Now the rest of us do, too. Scarborough Research says that people who engage in at least 10 or more environmentally friendly activities like recycling, buying local, riding their bikes make up 5 percent of the population nationally, and 8 percent in Minneapolis.

As usual, we are above average.

(The Minnesota Star Tribune)
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about the writer

Josephine Marcotty

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Josephine Marcotty has covered the environment in Minnesota for eight years, with expertise in water quality, agriculture, critters and mining. Prior to that she was a medical reporter, with an emphasis on mental illness, transplant medicine and reproductive health care.

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