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 [...]
Georgia Malki, co-founder of Green Cities, discusses the meaning of sustainability in video one of a three part series. Malki says that sustainability includes being socially and economically responsible while considering how your actions relate to community.
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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.
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, [...]
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
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 [...]
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