What is harmful to the earth is ultimately harmful to humanity. The removal and irradication of asbestos has been long a focus of many organizations. Asbestos is in the news again, but now new technologies and the cost saving aspects of green building may finally spell the end of the harmful substance . Joe Lederman of the [...]
Green Cities is founded on the idea of activating local citizens and government officials to improve their surroundings and ensuring their future. Despite how popular the green movement may be there are still the naysayers, dare I say “haters” who oppose moving forward with sustainability. Build Baby Build recently ran a story about local opposition [...]
The cure for a big problem is an even bigger idea. Some times to provoke those big ideas you have to invoke the spirit of friendly competition. Urban Revision is a series of competitions designed to find solutions for some very serious problems inflicting our society and infrastructure. Eric Corey Freed is principal of organicARCHITECT, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
ORLANDO PICKED FOR FLORIDA GREEN CITIES CONFERENCE
State, County, Municipal, Business and Community Leaders to Ignite Florida’s Green Economy
Seven Star, the world’s largest green events production company, has selected Orlando as the host city for Green Cities™ Florida 2009. The conference, which attracts community, government and business leaders from throughout the region, will be held May [...]
Ian Bryan for Green Cities
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