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Comings and goings in sustainability

Submitted by Marc Lefkowitz  |  Last edited October 7, 2009 - 12:57pm
  • Former Cleveland Green Building Coalition interim director Melanie Knowles has been hired as Kent State University’s first manager of sustainability. Knowles plans to set long-and short-range goals, such as examining Kent’s recycling programs and participating in an energy-savings competition coordinated by the University System of Ohio for residence halls throughout the state. Compare Kent’s sustainability efforts with 12 local colleges, and see GCBL’s Campus Climate Neutral Toolkit.
  • One of Cleveland’s local food leaders is being called up to the big leagues. Matt Russell—a staffer at Case’s Center for Health Promotion Research, Director of the Cleveland Corner Store Project and an organizer of the Cleveland-Cuyahoga Food Policy Coalition—accepted a position at the USDA Agricultural Marketing Services, in the Commodity Procurement Branch, to increase the amount of locally grown food in the national school lunch program. Congrats, Matt, we’ll miss you, but also look forward to your help with increasing the supply of locally grown food in Cleveland-area schools.
  • The Rocky River Nature Center kicks off a film festival focused on health and local food this evening with a screening of "The Future of Food", a film about genetically modified organisms in our food supply. All of the films in the series begin at 7 p.m. and are free and open to the public.
  • This Friday is Case Green Fest ’09. Students and faculty can discover and get involved with sustainable activities on Case's campus. Green Fest will incorporate student booths on green living, waste reduction, efforts to increase local food as well as community, non-profit, and sustainable businesses all together on the main quad.
  • Tweets from today's MORPC Summit on Sustainability and Environment.
  • Crains Cleveland Business reports this week that a Chinese investor, Shaojun Dong, has purchased the 660,000 sq. ft. former Richman Bros. building on E. 55th Street and announced plans for a $40 million mixed-use (retail and offices) renovation project. What a great opportunity for the city to house many of the sustainability-related businesses and projects it plans to support from the sustainability summit, such as the proposed Wastepedia Center or the Laboratories for Advanced Energy Commercialization.
  • Today's PD editorial seeks clarity on the Port's position on the Dike 14 Nature Preserve. "Port officials need to be far more forthcoming about why they torpedoed
    efforts by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, the Cleveland
    Metroparks and others in an environmental collaborative to apply for a
    $1 million state grant to upgrade the Dike 14 Nature Preserve just east
    of East 72nd Street."