Making Tracks in Nashville
By Elizabeth Brewster
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Once the site of a bustling railroad roundhouse, The Gulch development in
Nashville, Tenn., now teems with the comings and goings of shoppers, diners,
workers and residents in a neighborhood ranked as one of the greenest in the
world.
The Gulch recently received LEED for Neighborhood Development certification,
only the 13th neighborhood in the world to earn the new designation from the
U.S. Green Building Council. “Nashville is showing the world that we can be a leader in environmental action,
and that we can become the greenest city in the Southeast,” said Karl Dean, the city’s mayor. “The Gulch is a historic gem in our city [and] its revitalization is crucial to
our very fabric.”
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  28 percent approximate amount of all energy used in the Unites States for transporting people and goods from one place to another.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 200-300 estimated number of hydrogen-fueled vehicles in the United States today
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 9,783,000 number of barrels of crude oil the United States imports each day.
Source U.S. Department of Energy
 1 million number of gallons of fresh water that can be contaminated from the used oil from one oil change.
Source U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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 $2.3 billion amount President Obama awarded for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States
Source U.S. Department of Energy
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