It may seem as though the green movement has caught lightning in a bottle and exploded onto the mainstream overnight.  However, Trish Riley of GoGreenAlternatives.com, has been connected with nature for quite some time now.  Ms. Riley will be featured during the Open Space Technology session of Green Cities Florida on May 21st.  Founder/CEO of [...]

Mills 50, Green Cities Florida and The Dandelion Communitea Café invite you to join us for a fun evening of networking at the Dandelion Communitea Café at in the Thornton Park neighborhood!
If you represent or have been looking to connect with the growing ‘green’ business and government community in Central Florida, join us for the second Green [...]

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, [...]

Need more incentive to attend Green Cities Florida? Get a load of this: The American Planning Association has approved 17 of the Green Cities Florida courses for AICP CMs (the Continuing Education designation for Planners) for a total of 20.5 hrs of credits. Here is a list of those courses:

Achieving Climate Neutrality: The [...]

 
Doterati.com, Green Cities Florida and The Orlando Brewing Company invite you to join us for a fun evening of networking at the Orlando Brewing Company, Florida’s only fully certified Organic Brewery.  
If you represent or have been looking to connect with the growing ‘green’ business and government community in Central Florida, join us for the first Green Cities Tweet-up [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Advocates of the sustainability movement may tell you that bigger is not always synonymous with better, but when it comes to solar power one Florida developer would beg to differ.  Kitson & Partners, in collaboration with Florida Power and Light (FP&L), have recently announced their plan to construct the world’s largest solar array in Desoto [...]

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 [...]