The "greenest" country in the world, ranking.
 

This research was conduct by The Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) of Columbia University and Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy at
Yale University.

Pretty Interesting, USA is at # 61


http://epi.yale.edu/

Yep I knew before I even visited the site that China would come first for the greenest country

eh? i see them comming up at 121.
to be honest, i was suprised that the US made it as high as they did.

Going "green" is just an excuse to tax us even more than they already do...

Suprising the UK is 14th thats for sure.

Canada was suprising aswell considering the amount of recycled products people use, and the low population.

Surprised, Germany only number 17 :(

Haiti one of the worst, because they have no respect for human life and no respect for nature. And now we're sending millions in. They must be blessing the day when the earthquake struck. Check out the Border Between Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Google maps. Haiti cut down all the fucking trees.

my countries are 17 and 22 - could be worse

So because they have no respect for humans, they cut down trees, that's why they aren't green?

I hope that Zeitgeist site isn't yours...

It's too bad that Iceland is going bankrupt.

Finally someone else that agrees with me on Haiti :thumbsup

i know trhat

Wow, what a joke, the only reason any parts of Costa Rica are "green" is because they don't have the money to chop those parts down yet... These guys have absolutely no respect for the environment, the pollution and litter is fucking disgusting. A lot of the beach towns dump their sewage directly into the ocean, and in the last few years most the cleanest beaches have lost their "blue flag" rating (a system to encourage eco cleanliness).

yes i saw many beach towns like you that, the problem is that they don't know any better.

That should tell you how screwed up the rest of the world really is.

Is there a list of the criteria used? How they could put Canada below Costa Rica makes no sense to me, having lived a long time in each country.

That list is comparing apples to televisions.

Has anyone been to Mexico? They are actually semi industrialized and there is trash and human waste everywhere. There's so much garbage in beach cities... go scuba diving in Acapulco. You'll see more Styrofoam monsters than fish.

I imagine much of central and south america to be the same way.

Knew Iceland was first... that country practically runs on geothermal energy right now, and their recycling practices are second to none.

Thought that was weird myself. I remember hearing stories about how certain companies move some factories to Mexico just because of their lax pollution standards.

Hmm, surprise...

It’s 2 billion dollars and rising. Any one who thinks it will go to solving the problems they have after the aid teams leave, is living in a dream world.

It was a failed nation before, will be after and that has to be solved from the inside.

Yeah well that's nothing new there. That's why the third world countries got most of the west's industry.

no respect at all, i laugh at the go greeners down here.. and the beaches are fucking thrashed always. i once seen a child playing in the sewage stream and a surfer kindly let the parent's know what the kid was in.. :Oh crap

nothing beats the fresh smell of urine on every corner of san jose either

would have thought greenland would be up at the top :-)

ditto :thumbsup

"These indicators provide a gauge at a national government scale of how close countries are to established environmental policy goals."

Read: The EPI is nothing but a rating system that gauges how well countries have legislated, implemented, and followed through on the corrupt environmental policies of the UN and their UN Local Agenda 21 program.

That is one list Canada would be not want to be at the top of. :2 cents:

Interesting... not even in Top 50 hahah

Here's top 25:

1 Iceland 93.5
2 Switzerland 89.1
3 Costa Rica 86.4
4 Sweden 86.0
5 Norway 81.1
6 Mauritius 80.6
7 France 78.2
8 Austria 78.1
9 Cuba 78.1
10 Colombia 76.8
11 Malta 76.3
12 Finland 74.7
13 Slovakia 74.5
14 United Kingdom 74.2
15 New Zealand 73.4
16 Chile 73.3
17 Germany 73.2
18 Italy 73.1
19 Portugal 73.0
20 Japan 72.5
21 Latvia 72.5
22 Czech Republic 71.6
23 Albania 71.4
24 Panama 71.4
25 Spain 70.6

who cares ? :2 cents::2 cents::2 cents:

ok, I feel better now, I live in one of the "greenest" countries...let me go out and breath that healthy O2 in even more. :)

I love that i see Switzerland on the second place