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如何评判你的城市是否环保？Some cities consume energy with admirable[?dm?r?bl] efficiency. Others are more profligate. Gauging which is which involves more than just reading a meter. And it depends who’s doing the judging.一些城市的能源利用效率让人钦佩，而另一些城市却挥霍无度。评估一个城市的能源利用情况，不是看一个读数那么简单。而且还取决于是谁在做评判。Various lists of winners and sinners tend to contain the same names. The usual winners include wealthy, white-collar American cities, such as San Francisco and Seattle, and Nordic ones like Copenhagen and Oslo.在各类环保城市和污染城市的排名中，有的城市在两边都有出现。通常的环保城市包括富裕的白领美国城市，比如旧金山和西雅图，以及哥本哈根、奥斯陆这样的北欧城市。The two European capitals held prominent positions within the region on the Siemens Green City index, acompilation of cities lauded for using innovative methods to minimize their impact on the environment. Singapore and, perhaps surprisingly, the Brazilian city of Curitiba were the leaders for Asia and Latin America.这两个欧洲首都在西门子绿色城市指数(Siemens Green City index)中名列前茅。该指数表扬一批通过创新方法尽可能减少对环境影响的城市。新加坡是亚洲的领先城市，可能让人吃惊的是，巴西的库里奇巴是拉丁美洲的领先城市。San Francisco and Seattle, along with New York and Los Angeles, ranked among the top 10 in a 2008 Brookings Institution study of the 100 largest American cities with the lowest carbon emissions per resident. Seattle was the only one of these four cities that did not also finish in the top 10 in the latest annual ranking of energy efficiency compiled by the United States Environmental Protection Agency.布鲁金斯学会(Brookings Institution)在2008年对美国100个大城市的人均碳排量进行了调查，结果旧金山、西雅图、纽约和洛杉矶进入了人均碳排量最低的前十名。其中，只有西雅图未能进入美国环保署(United States Environmental Protection Agency)最新的能源效率年度排名前十。Some of these cities deserve their praise, such as Copenhagen, with its offshore wind turbines and ubiquitous bicycles, and Curitiba, which has implemented conservation and sustainability programs since the 1970s in a part of the world where environmental concerns often get short shrift in the quest to lift economic growth. Other cities are often beneficiaries of accidents of geography or history.这些城市中确实有值得赞扬的，比如哥本哈根的离岸风力涡轮机和无处不在的自