It’s Easy Being Green: Seattle Is Greenest City, Oregon Is Greenest State; Massachusetts and Washington #2 and #4

cities with the “most educated workforce”—Boston ranked 13th—neither Washington nor Oregon made the top 20 in state education climate—whereas five New England states made the top 10. The education climate takes into account factors like student-to-teacher ratios, high-school graduation rates, enrollment rates at colleges, and spending per pupil:

1. Vermont
2. New Hampshire
3. North Dakota
4. Iowa
5. Nebraska
6. Wyoming
7. Maine
8. Massachusetts
8. Rhode Island (tie)
10. Kansas
11. New Jersey
12. Wisconsin
13. South Dakota
14. Missouri
15. Minnesota
16. West Virginia
17. New York
18. Arkansas
19. Montana
19. Virginia (tie)

All of this fits completely with Xconomist Ed Lazowska’s recent post about the sorry state of education in Washington. It may be easy being green, but if the data is right, we Seattlites should really be green with envy—for the way the Northeast invests in its children.

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Author: Gregory T. Huang

Greg is a veteran journalist who has covered a wide range of science, technology, and business. As former editor in chief, he overaw daily news, features, and events across Xconomy's national network. Before joining Xconomy, he was a features editor at New Scientist magazine, where he edited and wrote articles on physics, technology, and neuroscience. Previously he was senior writer at Technology Review, where he reported on emerging technologies, R&D, and advances in computing, robotics, and applied physics. His writing has also appeared in Wired, Nature, and The Atlantic Monthly’s website. He was named a New York Times professional fellow in 2003. Greg is the co-author of Guanxi (Simon & Schuster, 2006), about Microsoft in China and the global competition for talent and technology. Before becoming a journalist, he did research at MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. He has published 20 papers in scientific journals and conferences and spoken on innovation at Adobe, Amazon, eBay, Google, HP, Microsoft, Yahoo, and other organizations. He has a Master’s and Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from MIT, and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.