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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
