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GCBL continues to ramp up coverage of the Sustainable Cleveland 2019 summit follow up. Recent posts in our new 2019 Blog report on a milestone for the 2019 Green Building ‘retrofits’ work group, and on the city’s release of an RFP for a 2019 strategic plan. Get an overview on each of the 20 Work Groups, and how they plan to deliver a vision for sustainable development. - “There is a great deal of national buzz among activists and community-development specialists about ‘the Cleveland model,’” The Nation reports about the Evergreen Cooperative. The Co-op launched two employee-owned green companies last fall, and has plans for two more, including Green City Growers, a 230,000 sq. ft. greenhouse on vacant land in the city. Commitments from the Cleveland Clinic, Case and University Hospital to purchase their services, and an initial infusion of $5 million in grants from Cleveland Foundation have Atlanta, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Detroit and a number of other cities around Ohio looking to copy Cleveland’s success.
- The Cuyahoga Valley National Park is working on a trails plan, and wants your input. If you have ideas that would add or improve trails including mountain biking, weigh in here before March 5.
- Add EcoTuesday to Cleveland’s growing list of urban and sustainability oriented groups. EcoTuesday, like Green Drinks and Net Impact, is a network of young professionals across cities like Chicago, Minneapolis and Portland. Cleveland’s kicks off Feb. 23 with drinks at the Club at Key Center at 127 Public Square featuring guest speaker, Brad Masi, local food guru with New Agrarian Center.
- The accidental discovery of a bowl-shaped molecule that pulls carbon dioxide out of the air suggests exciting new possibilities for dealing with global warming, including genetically engineering microbes to manufacture those CO2 "catchers," a scientist from Maryland reports. If it can be mass produced, this could be a game changer, says a local climate scientist.
- Are we just now waking up to find newspapers wrapped in plastic bags as the new evil? Metropolis Magazine explores the trend and blames old industries like The New York Times for America’s yearly 100 billion pound plastic bag problem. Is this fair? Or, are we to blame for demanding the convenience of the paper waiting for us at the crack of dawn, dry as a bone? Is it reasonable or possible to ask the delivery guy – who probably buys his bags for less than one cent each and can only make a small profit with a huge route delivered by throwing the newspaper out of the window of his car – to wrap The Times in a rubber band? Are rubber bands less evil than plastic bags? If subscribers to home delivery of the paper cannot communicate to their carrier or their paper to stop this, how do we effect change? Who can make the bags so expensive that the carrier stops buying them? The article would do well to explore solutions, such as, how does the paper get delivered on time and without complaint? What about the lifecycle analysis of the paper when it was delivered with a rubber band versus today’s plastic bag?
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2019 Blog
Kevin Leeson Says:Marc, is there a feed for the 2019 Blog?
2019 feed
Marc Lefkowitz Says:Kevin, here's the feed for the 2019 blog:
http://www.gcbl.org/2019-blogs/feed
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Kevin Leeson Says:Excellent. Thank you!
If it has to be plastic
Susan Miller Says:If It has to be plastic, maybe we can take some of the HFCS out of the food and put it in the packaging.
And note that those beets you didn't want to eat are making waves, too. We heard previously that they can be used for snow and ice issues on roadways. Now this. Turning our world pink. It could be a rosy world without the proverbial rose colored glasses, eh? Unless we grow them with fossil fuel inputs that is... ;)
PD litter in my driveway
Susan Miller Says:Even though I don't subscribe, I have to pick up plastic wrapped PD litter from my drive each week.
Evergreen Co-Ops are the future. Kudos to Evergreen! May their example shine globally, but first and foremost in Cleveland!
PD promotional litter
David Beach Says:I have heard other complaints about the PD's practice of throwing promotional papers on people's driveways, and I have seen the litter build up in yards where the house is vacant or the owners are away. It's a nuisance.
I complained to PD management, but they refused to stop. I think cities will have to cite the PD for littering.