You might not expect this from someone who has a blog with the word green in its title but the word green needs to vanish from our building vernacular! Why? When we call a building green we are using green as an adjective to set the building on a pedestal and show that it is unique. One of my primary goals with this blog is to educate individuals about sustainable building. A building [...]
Orange County Mayor Richard Crotty has issued a letter giving a full endorsement of Green Cities Florida. In this letter, Mayor Crotty expresses his desire to meet challenges head on in order to help Florida emerge as a leader in green business, clean technologies and sustainable initiatives. He states, “Orange County is proud to support [...]
Joseph B. Malki is the visionary founder of the new Green Cities™ event series and development platform. He is also the co-founder and a partner at Seven-Star, Inc. He has over twenty years of consulting and industry experience with primary disciplines in green marketing strategy, business development, and information technology. He is a military veteran, visionary marketer with a deep commitment to social and environmental responsibility.
Jerome Ringo has placed himself at the forefront of environmental and social change. With over 20 years of working at a petrochemical plant and seeing first-hand the adverse effects it had on our environment and population, he chose another way. As a result of Jerome’s emerging awareness to the effects of the petrochemical industries detrimental attributes, he began to organize community/environmental justice groups and in doing so was able to aid the environment and local communities simultaneously. Jerome’s ability to organize [...]
Best described as a loose association of cities focused on sustainability, the emerging “green cities movement” encompasses thousands of urban areas around the world all striving to lessen their environmental impacts by reducing waste, expanding recycling, lowering emissions, increasing housing density while expanding open space, and encouraging the development of sustainable local businesses. Perhaps the archetypal green city is Curitiba, Brazil. When Jamie Lerner became [...]
In this interview from March 25, Kimberly Miller speaks with Gil Friend, who will be speaking at the Green Cities Conference taking place May 19-21 in Orlando, FL. Gil Friend discusses his inspiration for founding Natural Logic, the urgent need to act on climate change and how his [...]
ORLANDO, Fla. (March 18, 2009) – The Orange County Convention Center, in partnership with OUC—The Reliable One, was awarded a $2.5 million grant from the state of Florida to be used, along with other funding sources, to install a one-megawatt rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) system. The largest PV system of its kind in the southeastern United States, the solar panel project will be complete and celebrated on May 20, 2009, during the general session of the Green Cities Florida 2009 [...]
$1.2 million awarded for Gulf Stream plan
From My Fox Orlando
DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Florida Atlantic University will receive nearly $1.2 million from the federal government to continue research into harnessing energy from the powerful Gulf Stream off Florida’s coast.
Democratic Congressman Ron Klein joined scientists on Friday at the school’s Center for Ocean Energy Technology [...]
Urban Re:Vision will be speaking at Green Cities Florida to share the story of how a crumbling parking lot in downtown Dallas is being transformed into the nations first fully sustainable inner-city square block.
Potential requirements, barriers, and changes will be examined in an effort to pave the way for other cities to adopt the Dallas approach. [...]
Eric Corey Freed, who will be speaking at the Green Cities Florida Conference in May, interviews some of the biggest names in green building for Natural Home Magazine.
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To mark Natural Home’s 10th anniversary, we asked a visionary group of architects and educators to predict what will happen to housing over the next decade. The insights [...]
Ian Bryan for Green Cities
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