Green Apple

I just watched a trailer of an episode from PBS's e2 series on energy, entitled "Green Apple". David Owen, a journalist for The New Yorker contends that suburban sprawls, by design, are energy unfriendly due to the necessity of driving everywhere. He talks about New York being the greenest city, using Manhattan as an example and citing the proximity of resources and amenities that make it possible to either walk or take public transportation to your destinations, thus helping conserve on fuel usage.