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Few Indians have hot running water and even fewer have air-conditioned homes — and that’s a good thing.

A worldwide survey of environmentally sustainable behavior by National Geographic finds India at the top of the list with a Greendex score of 59.5. Americans, by contrast, were at the bottom, with a score of 43.7.

 

County              Greendex
Indians 59.5
Brazilians 57.3
Chinese  56.7
Argentenians 54.7
South Koreans 54.6
Mexicans 53.8
Hungarians 53.3
Russians 52.0
Spanish 51.4
Germans 51.1
Swedes 51.1
Australians 50.5
French 49.5
British 49.4
Japanese 49.3
Canadians 47.5
Americans 43.7

 

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Business | Magazine | June 2009

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