In early 2009, Global Green launched the Greening the Rustbelt: Sustainable Youngstown Initiative in Youngstown, OH. Youngstown is notable for its historic role as a key steel city in our nation’s history – immortalized in Bruce Springsteen’s Youngstown – and most recently, for embracing the reality of its future via the Youngstown 2010 plan and process. Being the first post-industrial city to formally acknowledge that it would not return to its former industrial roots or size, Youngstown has paved the way in terms of sustainable planning and downsizing.