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Cleveland adopts local food incentives

Today’s Cleveland-Cuyahoga Food Policy Coalition meeting shed light on Cleveland’s new policy to attract and create local, sustainable business. New legislation allows the city to offer a 5% discount to local food businesses bidding for city...
Posted April 7, 2010 with views     
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Towards carbon neutrality: Impact of building codes

Climate change has become a hot button topic for discussion around the world, with many passionate people pushing forward initiatives to address this issue head on. With the Copenhagen summit, it is clear that passion alone will not solve climate...
Posted April 5, 2010 with views     
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What makes Cleveland a Next American City?

It was an honor to write about Cleveland’s growing land-based, self-help economy in “Cleveland’s Comeback: ReImagining the city from the ground up,” a feature in the spring issue of Next American City, a national magazine. The experience confirmed...
Posted March 16, 2010 with views     
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Who will collaborate for regional, sustainable development?

HUD officials were in town last week explaining how Greater Cleveland could tap into a $150 million Sustainable Communities Initiative for walkable, affordable, green and transit-accessible development at a regional scale. But does the program’s...
Posted March 15, 2010 with views     
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Cleveland Mayor to 'jumpstart transformation' with sustainability

In his State of the City address last week, Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson detailed his plans to use sustainability as an economic engine, and a hoped for path out of poverty. Jackson—who convened 700 people to create a vision for a...
Posted March 10, 2010 with views     
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Will industry tap its own grey and green power?

In its Feb. 15 edition, The Nation describes Ohio as the Saudi Arabia of ‘grey power’. That’s quite a striking statement, and absolutely true when considering the tons of grey power—“the massive bank account of steam and energy that could be...
Posted March 5, 2010 with views     
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The true cost of roads, trains and climate change

In order to achieve significant reductions in CO2, as a region we need to focus collective energy on three main areas – the transportation sector, energy generation sector and building sector.  These 3 areas account for most of Northeast...
Posted March 3, 2010 with views     
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Cleveland seeks strategic plan for sustainability

The City of Cleveland is seeking a consulting firm to help develop a strategic vision and plan for the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 process.  The work will help set priorities by evaluating  the hundreds of ideas...
Posted February 10, 2010 with views     
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City Planning throws weight behind open access for Innerbelt Bridge

After months of working in the trenches to re-imagine an Innerbelt Bridge with access to all (with a bike/pedestrian path and scenic overlook with panoramic views of the city), cycling and sustainability advocates took another step forward today as...
Posted January 22, 2010 with views     
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Ohio renewable energy mandate kicks in

“We think we have an energy policy now," observes Ohio Partners for Affordable Energy on the rules for the state’s alternative energy portfolio standard in Senate Bill 221. "It is renewables and efficiency that will dominate the industry...
Posted January 18, 2010 with views     
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Wind power on the lake...when?

By Laura Christie According to Great Lakes Energy Development Task Force executive director Steve Dever, Northeast Ohioans may see wind turbines off our north shore in 2013. Not surprisingly, Ohio isn’t the only Great Lakes’ state or province...
Posted December 18, 2009 with views     
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58 'green infrastructure' projects move Cleveland's ReImagine study into reality

Fifty eight Clevelanders will start re-designing their city this week in ways that reflect a shrinking population and a new mindset that vacant land can be an engine for social, environmental and economic opportunity. Cleveland Mayor Frank...
Posted November 3, 2009 with views     
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