In the run up to this week’s Green Cities Florida Conference in Orlando, Eric Corey Freed, urban sustainability activist and principal of organicARCHITECT, was interviewed on WELE-AM’s Wake Up Daytona.  As a speaker at the conference, Freed will address Re:Vision Dallas and draw from the most advanced research in Green Building to offer up a [...]

 

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Growing Bolder recently interviewed Lori Cunniff, speaker at Green Cities Florida (happening today and tomorrow) and is Manager of the Orange County Environmental Protection Division in Orlando, Florida.

Question 1: Devil’s advocate question — why bother going green? I’m only one person … does it really make a difference whether I recycle my soda cans or [...]

Funds for green initiatives are available nationwide through governmental and independent organizations.  Since fiscal year 1994, the South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control has awarded more than $61 million in grants to assist state counties, municipalities, schools, colleges and universities with their recycling and reduction goals.  GoUpstate.com brings us this repost on how [...]

Critic’s Pick: Not many sustainability conferences begin with a schmooze session fueled by organic juice and smoothies and continue with organic food buffets and fair trade coffee breaks. But organizers of the Green Cities conference in Orlando know their target – l

Taylor Huff gave us some inside information about the topics covered at Green Cities Florida. Experts in sustainability, land use planning, green building, and clean technology will be on hand to give high-energy presentations, hold round table discussions, and help individual business [...]

Thanks to Doterati.com & the Orlando Brewing for a successful Tweetup leading up to Green Cities Florida.
On Wednesday night, the toast of the Twitter and Doterati communities came out to tweet about the upcoming Green Cities event. Everyone came out for an excellent selection of organic brews with dynamic names such as: Pompous Ass IPA, [...]

Mayor Battle will formally name the thirteen members of his Council for Green Sustainable Industry and announce the first major event of the initiative – a major conference on green sustainable industry to be held in early May. Biographies of the members and an electronic release will follow the event.
Major event sponsors – Environmental [...]

This winter, as Congress was scrambling to pass the stimulus package, the bottom fell out of the renewable energy sector — the very industry that lawmakers have held out as our best hope of salvaging the economy. Trade groups like the American Wind Energy Association, which as recently as December was forecasting “another record-shattering year [...]

Kelly Burnett, Director of eCommerce & Leisure Sales, has been active in communicating the recent One Palm Certification in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Green Lodging Program. The Omni Hotel is working towards earning their Two Palm status from the Florida Department of Environmental Protection. The Florida Green Lodging Program launched in March 2004 [...]

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