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, 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 Great Lakes Cities, Green Cities, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Local Food, Love Your Place, Sustainability, tagged Challenge, Copenhagen, Hopenhagen, Local Action, SustainLane on November 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Check out SustainLane’s Local Action Challenge – Hopenhagen to make your city a more sustainable place for everyone. I just signed up and will be looking to win points for Cleveland through lightbulb changing, composting, bike riding, and much more.
Here’s what SustainLane had to say about the Challenge:
As global decision-makers prepare to hammer out a new [...]
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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 Cleveland, Education, Local Food, Social & Environmental Justice, Sustainability, tagged Bioneers, Cleveland, Conference, Local Food, Michael Pollan on October 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Bioneers Cleveland will hold its third annual Bioneers Conference next weekend on November 5-7 at the Cleveland Convention Center on Thursday, and at CSU’s Maxine Levin College of Urban Affairs on Friday & Saturday.
Bioneers Cleveland is a ‘beaming site’ (meaning it shows the national plenary speakers on screen) for National Bioneers, which is a 20-year-old nonprofit [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Green Cities, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Industry, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Love Your Place, Northeast Ohio, Rust Belt, Sustainability, Urban Re-Development, tagged community development, Economic Development, Evergreen Cooperative Laundry, Evergreen Cooperatives, Greater University Circle, Green Business, Green City, Green City Growers, Green Economy, Green Jobs, Local, Neighborhood Voice, Ohio Solar, Ohio Solar Cooperative on October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last night I went to the official opening of the Evergreen Cooperatives, which are businesses working together with Greater University Circle communities (Hough, Glenville, Fairfax, Buckeye-Shaker, Little Italy and East Cleveland) and some of Cleveland’s anchor institutions to create green jobs for local residents.
Each year, these major institutions–including CWRU, the Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals, among [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Green Cities, Green Economy, Local Food, Northeast Ohio, Sustainability, tagged Bioneers, Brewed Fresh Daily, Broadband Mechanics, CSU, David DuBois, film, Food where we live, George Nemeth, Levin College Forum, Local Food, local food documentary, Marc Canter, Northeast Ohio Citizen's League, panel, Polycultures, PSRI, River's Edge, Social Media, Sustainability on October 20, 2009 | 2 Comments »
My friend David Pearl, writer and co-director of the film PolyCultures: Food Where We Live, called me last week and asked if I would sit on a panel with George Nemeth (of Brewed Fresh Daily), Marc Canter (of Broadband Mechanics), and David DuBois (of PSRI) to talk about using social media as a catalyst of [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Green Cities, Green Economy, Local Food, Love Your Place, Northeast Ohio, Sustainability, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged David Pearl, Food where we live, Local Food, Polycultures, Urban agriculture, Urban Farming on October 7, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is a preview of the video my friend David Pearl and his cohorts created, Polycultures: Food Where We Live. Enjoy!
I was going to leave it at that, but I just had to add this clip from the movie as well:
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Posted in Biomimicry, Cleveland, Green Economy, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Sustainability, tagged closed-loop, cradle to cradle, ecosystem, Great Lakes Brewery, Great Lakes Brewing Company, pint size farm, triple bottom line, zero waste on October 1, 2009 | 4 Comments »
The familiar smell of pizza greets you as you walk through the double doors, and the bartender smiles while pulling down on the tap handle in front of a full bar audience. The brick walls look as though they’ve been holding up this building for quite a while. The host seats you in the renovated [...]
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Posted in Cleveland, Economic Development, Green Cities, Green Economy, Innovation and Design, Local Food, Love Your Place, Northeast Ohio, Sustainability, Sustainable Cleveland 2019, Transportation, Urban Re-Development, Vacant Land, tagged Local Food, Sustainable Cleveland 2019, Summit, Mayor Frank Jackson, Green City Blue Lake, Progress, Andrew Watterson, Sustainable Education, Water Sustainability, Waste to Profit, Vacant Land Use, Green Space, Transportation, Sustainable Business Innovation, Strategic Partnerships, Social Entrepreneurship, Urban, Social Capital, Public Compact, Post-Summit Momentum, Metrics, Health, Green Building, Communications, Branding, Advanced Manufacturing, Advanced Materials, Advanced Energy on September 24, 2009 | 2 Comments »
I just received an exciting email. Here’s what it said:
Yesterday, Mayor Jackson announced the next steps in working towards building a sustainable economy in Cleveland.
The appointment of Andrew Watterson as Chief of Sustainability, the City’s first cabinet level position focusing on sustainability.
A strategic plan will be created based on the 28 summit recommendations. The [...]
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