Portland's praises are adding up quickly.

The Park Blocks on a warm and sunny day in Portland. (kgw.com photo/Antonia Giedwoyn)

In this month's Popular Science magazine Portland is called the "greenest" city in the United States.

Portland has made it onto numerous best-of lists in recent months.

The “greenest city” honor is just the latest.

The mayor says it's time to take advantage of all this attention.

“Portland is the top city in the United States to have a baby,” said Mayor potter, reading from a long list of accolades.

“Tree city USA … it's a great place for walkers … one of the top 100 (auto) fleets in the United States.

“I'm not even sure that this is all of them.”

Add best airport, best festival (the Rose Festival), top honors for travel destination, cooking and restaurants, fitness, bicycling to work, green building practices, livability, independent movie-making, clean air and recently, historic building preservation.

“That will drive tourists to town. It's an important accolade,” said Travel Portland CEO Peter Miller.

His job is to market Portland outside the city.

Miller says local businesses like Voodoo Doughnut are thriving on all the "best-of-you-name-it" attention.

“Voodoo Doughnut does 70 percent of their business on weekends from out of town visitors,” he said.

Workers confirm the frenzy.

“Yeah, they've come from all over. From England, Australia, Japan, Tennessee.

Mike Chinfoo is a tourist from Los Angeles who is eating a doughnut outside the shop.

He caught the buzz about Portland and Voodoo from media in his home city.

“I heard about it from watching the Anthony Bourdain Show,” he explained.

Mayor Potter says Portland’s need to capitalize on the buzz.

“I don't think we've played it up enough quite frankly. We should be using this as a marketing too. We should be going to companies -particularly green companies- and saying, you know, you should bring your manufacturing here.”

National media is falling for Portland and all the things that make it distinct.

As for that new "greenest city honor" Popular Science says Portland is tops in the nation because of its energy practices, transportation systems, recycling rate, and green building practices.

San Francisco was a close second place.

Eugene came in at number five.

Seattle landed at number eight on the list of 50 cities.