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Green Energy Ohio Announces Dates for 2010 Solar Tour

October 2-3, 2010 - Annual Ohio Solar Tour.
GreenEnergy Ohio welcomes the annual 2010 Ohio Solar Tour! Green Energy Ohiois the Ohio Chapter of the American Solar Energy Society (ASES), and GEO's 8th Annual Ohio Solar Tour is part of the National Solar Tour managed by ASES. This FREE statewide event on October 2 & 3 providesthe unique opportunity for people to visit hundreds of Open House Sitesand talk with owners living and working with clean energy technologies.

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Shearer's Celebrates Its New "Green" Plant

By Matthew Rink, CantonRep.com
IndeOnline.com staff report
Aug 13, 2010

MASSILLON- Gov. Ted Strickland and U.S. Rep. John Boccieri marched into Shearer's Foods' bright-white and brand-new Millennium Manufacturing Facility. They joined state representatives, Stark County commissioners,the mayor and all the in-the-know and in-the-mix people around.

Theguy at the podium was the mover and shaker. But the guy sitting off to the side and in the front was the mastermind of it all.

Jack Shearer celebrated his 83rd birthday Friday, not with birthday candles, but with a ribbon cutting. The tiny snack-food distribution business he started 36 years ago with his wife, Rosemary, has grown into a worldwideleader in the snack-food manufacturing business, with six plants acrossthe country.

But the 47,000-square-foot facility Jack Shearer sat in Friday is the crown jewel of them all, a state-of-the art building recognized as the first platinum-certified Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design manufacturing facility in the world.

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WKYC Cleveland Series
Lake Erie Beyond the Surface

WKYCCleveland recently aired an on-going series on Lake Erie.  The following link focuses on storm water run-off and its effects on the Lake.  Featured in the video is Cawrse & Associates facilities in Chagrin Falls.  This development includes numerous applications of on-site storm water management.

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The Five Most Important Green Buildings
The Lewis Center at Oberlin College tops the list.

Melissa Hincha-Ownby,08.13.10, 06:00 AM
Forbes.com

Behind every green building is an architect. A recent survey conducted by Lance Hosey for Architectmagazine asked 150 green building experts, including architects, what they thought were the five most important green buildings constructed since 1980. The top vote-getter, with 13 votes, was the Adam Joseph Lewis Center for Environmental Studies in Oberlin, Ohio.

TheLewis Center, which was completed in 2001, is on the campus of Oberlin College & Conservatory. The zero-energy building has classroom and office space, an auditorium, an environmental studies library and a Living Machine wastewater purification system. The building is equipped with solarpanels, energy-efficient lighting, a geothermal heating and cooling system, furniture with biodegradable upholstery and more. As Oberlin College prepares to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Lewis Center, the college can add this honor to a long list of awards the building hasreceived.

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ZeroLandfill™ Cleveland launches fifth year of upcycling program

ZeroLandfill™,a project of BeeDance, LLC, is launching its fifth year of upcycling programming. Launched in Cleveland in 2006, ZeroLandfill™ fulfills supply needs of the arts and arts educator community while assisting theconstruction industry in diverting materials from the waste stream. Through industry trade partners, such as the International Interior Design Association and
the American Society of Interior Designers, BeeDance, LLC is rolling out ZeroLandfill™ program sites throughout the country.

Projects scheduled for the fall include Columbus and Cincinnati, Ohio; Detroit and
GrandRapids, Michigan and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with interest from Atlanta, Georgia to Portland, Oregon. Chattanooga, Tennessee completed their ZeroLandfill™ program in April, 2010 diverting 12,000 pounds in two days.

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COSE Small Business Energy Efficiency Challenge

From COSE

COSEis launching its first Energy Efficiency Challenge specifically for small businesses.  Based on the belief that as the market begins to reward companies, large and small, for energy efficient practices, pressure for energy efficiency in B-to-B and B-to-C transactions will begin to increase.
 
One grand prize winner will be awarded $10,000. Cash prizes will also be awarded for the following sectors: goods and services, office/retail and home-business.  The grand prize winner may not also be a sector winner.  In addition, winners will receive a free one year COSE membership and a free one year registrationto Green Plus 
The cash prizes are as follows:

$10,000 - overall prize winner
$2,500 - goods and services sector
$2,500 - office/retail sector
$1,500 - home business sector

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