Screw organics. Go nuclear. Live urban. Crank the A/C. That's the headline on the cover story of this month's Wired magazine. It continues, "Inconvenient truths. In the age of climate change, what matters most is cutting carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. That means rethinking everything you ever learned about being green. The war on greenhouse gases is too important to be left to the environmentalists. There, we said it."

And the first -- the very first -- recommendation by Wired to reduce greenhouse gases is (drumroll please), "Live in cities."

"The fact is, urban living is kinder to the planet, and Manhattan is perhaps the greenest place in the U.S. A Manhattanite's carbon footrint is 30 percent smaller than the average American's. The rate of car ownership is among the lowest in the country; 65 percent of the population walks, bikes or rides mass transit to work. Large apartment buildings are the most efficient dwellings to heat and cool."

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