Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Government, Green Cities, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Sustainability, Sustainable Cleveland 2019, tagged Andrew Watterson, Appreciative Inquiry, Cleveland, Council, Graham Vesey, Mini-Summit for Communications, Progress, Steering Committee, Summit, Sustainability, Sustainable Cleveland 2019, Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Report, Urban Sustainability on December 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The following video by Graham Veysey summarizes the proceedings of the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit hosted by Mayor Jackson.
I have heard multiple Clevelanders state their frustration about the lack of visible results that have come out of the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Summit so far. But what I say to them each time is that this [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Government, Green Cities, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Northeast Ohio, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, tagged bike lane, Cleveland, Cleveland Bikes, Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative, GreenCityBlueLake, I-90, Innerbelt Bridge, ODOT, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op, Ohio Department of Transportation, Towpath Trail on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A message brought to you from GreenCityBlueLake, Ohio City Bicycle Co-op, Cleveland Bikes and Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative:
“The Ohio Department of Transportation plans to build a new, $450 million I-90 bridge through downtown Cleveland. Although all of us should be able to use it, the existing plans do not include pedestrian and cyclist access. We [...]
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Posted in Chicago, Cleveland, Columbus, Detroit, Great Lakes Cities, Green Cities, Green Economy, Indianapolis, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Love Your Place, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Northeast Ohio, Rust Belt, Sustainability, Transportation, tagged Cleveland, Colorado Springs, Columbus, Detroit, Hopenhagen, Indianapolis, Local Action Challenge, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Most Active Cities, SustainLane on December 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cleveland is currently the second most active city in the nation on SustainLane’s Local Action Challenge. With a whopping 284 points, we are beat only by Colorado Springs (which currently has 686 points).
SustainLane is hosting the Hopenhagen Local Action Challenge to empower people to be more environmentally responsible on the local level. Cities set up [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Education, Green Cities, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, tagged American War, Ancestors, Bela Dubby, environmental justice, GreenLight, GreenLight Zine, Letters to the Moon, RandomStereo, release party, Unwelcome Guests, Wisdom Tooth on November 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
GreenLight Zine is hosting the release party for their 6th issue – The Environmental Justice Issue - tonight at Bela Dubby in Lakewood! GreenLight Zine is an online and printed magazine that aims to educate and empower young people around important environmental issues.
Music at the release party will be provided by the likes of… Letters to the Moon, [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Education, Government, Great Lakes Cities, Green Cities, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Industry, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Love Your Place, Re-Imagining a More Sustainable Cleveland, Rust Belt, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Cleveland, Cleveland Foundation, GLUE, Great Lakes Urban Exchange, I will stay if, Lillian Kuri, Matt Zone, Policy Bridge, Randell McShepard, Ward 17 on November 16, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Share your ideas for a better Cleveland this Wednesday, Nov. 18th, from 5:30-8:30pm at the Speakeasy below Bier Markt (1948 W. 25th St. in Ohio City).
The event is hosted by the Great Lakes Urban Exchange (GLUE) and will include special presentations from:
Matt Zone, Ward 17 Councilman
Randell McShepard, Policy Bridge Board Chairman
Lillian Kuri, Program Director for [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Great Lakes Cities, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Rust Belt, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged art, artists, community partnership for arts and culture, cpac, creative compass, From Rust Belt to Artist Belt, lily yeh, post-industrial on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
How can we use art to improve the quality of life in our post-industrial cities?
The Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC) launched a multi-year initiative in 2007, called Creative Compass, to help artists gain access to affordable housing and business space and to encourage them to become active contributers to the revitalization of our urban [...]
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Posted in Economic Development, Education, Government, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Industry, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, tagged 2009, Annie Leonard, Apollo Alliance, Bioneers, Conference, In Defense of Food, Jerome Ringo, Michael Pollan, Omnivore's Dilemma, The Story of Stuff on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This past weekend, Bioneers Cleveland showed the national plenary speakers of the 2009 Bioneers Conference, in addition to hosting workshops and tours focused around sustainability and Northeast Ohio’s local food system.
Here are some of the national speakers from the conference…
Michael Pollan, author of Omnivore’s Dilemma and In Defense of Food:
(Watch Part 2 and [...]
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Posted in Economic Development, Government, Great Lakes Cities, Green Cities, Green Economy, Industry, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Rust Belt, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Brookings Institute, Bruce Katz, Federal-state compact to renew the great lakes region, Great Lakes Congressional Caucus Leadership, Great Lakes Economic Initiative, John Austin, presentation, report, The Brookings Institution, The Vital Center, Vital Center Report on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Brookings Institution Metropolitan Policy Program wrote a groundbreaking report about the importance of renewing the Great Lakes region, called “The Vital Center: A Federal-State Compact to Renew the Great Lakes Region.”
Below is the presentation given on March 5, 2007, by Bruce Katz (Vice-President of the Brookings Institution) and John Austin (Non-Resident Senior Fellow) to brief House and Senate [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Detroit, Green Cities, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Re-Imagining a More Sustainable Cleveland, Rust Belt, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Carl Anthony, Cleveland, community empowerment, Detroit, Earth House Center, Earth House Leadership Center, environmental justice, racism, Reimagining a More Sustainable Cleveland, social justice, Stimulus, structural racism, suburban sprawl, urban sprawl on October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Sustainability: social, environmental and economic justice.
This video shows an interview with Carl Anthony, Founder of the Earth House Leadership Center in Detroit, talking about the problems of structural racism in our urban centers. Anthony also talks about how groups in Detroit are working to abate urban sprawl through an inner city land bank initiative similar to Cleveland’s “Reimagining a [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Education, Green Cities, Innovation and Design, Love Your Place, Sustainability, tagged Cleveland, video, Got City Game, in the news, WKYC, young professionals, Tri-C, Cuyahoga Community College, Hiram College, LiveCleveland, reality tv show, competition on October 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got*City Game! is a game show filmed in Cleveland, about Cleveland, by Cuyahoga Community College (Tri-C) students. The project, sponsored by Tri-C, Hiram College and LiveCLEVELAND, will film three teams of two people competing to win Cleveland for a year – which includes, according to their website, “a free lease at the Tremont Place Lofts and [...]
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