Karen Gardner of Flipside Florida, the online business magazine covering Jacksonville and northern Florida, is an avid supporter of Green Cities. We are thrilled to feature her latest story on the future of petroleum alternatives producers in Florida. Who know the yucky green material floating in the water could yield so much potential.
Florida’s Race for [...]
Robin Cape, Asheville Councilwoman and sponsor of the city’s Committee on Energy and Environment, offers her perspective on sustainability from a local government level. “Change starts at home” is an old saying, but it is still relevant. We often forget how important local government agencies and officials are when we aim to change our communities.
Ms. Cape gives us [...]
This week we highlighted the Malkis’ vision in founding Green Cities and Jerome Ringo’s focus on the human element of sustainability. Creative Loafing’s Joshua Michael Poll reviews the latest Green Cities event and highlights the 1 MW Solar Electric System at the Orange County Convention Center and Orlando’s Mayor Buddy Dyer’s announcement of “Green Works [...]
Joseph Malki of Seven Star is the Founder of Green Cities™, and from my brief meeting with him it’s easy to see he has big ideas about bringing the green movement to cities and homes across the world. I was amazed at how deeply he understood the core issues of the green movement, and how [...]
Our partners over at EcoFactory were able to catch up with Jerome Ringo of the Apollo Alliance for a few quick questions at Green Cities Florida. Fresh off his workshop “The Color of Green: The Next Inconvenient Truth “, Mr. Ringo addresses several issues. A personal favorite is “The problem of nature vs. Nintendo” and [...]
Part two in a series of interviews with Steve Cochran about the Open Space session he facilitated at Green Cities Florida. This time, he spoke with Kimberly Miller of Green Cities Media.
This post is from our good friend Joel Wilcox at EcoFactory.
We here at EcoFactory managed to catch Steve Cochran at Green Cities™ Florida and talk to him a bit about Open Space. It’s quite an impressive concept, to think that you can solve problems that might take weeks of meetings by doing an Open Space [...]
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, [...]
Green Cities™ Florida hosted in Orlando was last week (May 20th & 21st) at the Orange County Convention Center. The overall focus of the event was to bring businesses and municipalities together to achieve green goals to save the planet, increase profits, and to qualify for possible federal funding. The Green Cities™ conference “demystified ’sustainability’ and provided tools, [...]
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 [...]
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