What a busy week! Between interviews with Steve Cochran and Joseph Malki, then Orange County Update featuring Green Cities Florida, we barely had time to keep up with everything else going on in this green world. Here are a few highlights that showed up on our radar.
Forbes investigates the future of “Green Investments”. (Forbes)
Mark Wanczak of Konstructr [...]
The solar industry is on fire… in a good way. Solar panels and solar farms are popping up all over the nation, but do you ever consider who is behind the production of this hot technology? Maureen McHale of Advanced Solar Photonics (ASP) took a minute to speak with Kimberly Miller of Green Cities Media [...]
In this interview from May 20th, 2009, Gillian Coats interviewed Tom Kimbis, Director of the Solar America Cities Program for the DOE. Tom Kimbis explains how the Solar America Cities program is assisting 25 US cities in innovative solar implementation, and he speaks specifically about the solar installation on Orlando’s Orange County Convention Center where [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
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 [...]
Over the span of two weeks, Green Cities Florida identified and contacted 100 cities in Central Florida to find out what sustainability initiatives they have on their radar and what topics they would like to learn about at the conference. Nearly 40 cities responded to our call, sharing their programs which cover everything from renewable [...]
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