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Participating venues
- Cleveland Browns Stadium
- Cleveland Clinic Foundation
- Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
- Cleveland Museum of Natural History
- Cleveland Orchestra/Severance Hall
- Progressive Field
- Q Arena
- Tri-C
Timeline
- Fall 2009, pilot composting program
- July 2010, draft partnership agreement created
In the news
- Cleveland downtown businesses avoid landfill, Plain Dealer, May 16, 2010
- Major league sports: The best venue to score green converts? GCBL blog post, May 13, 2010
- Downtown Cleveland pilots group composting, GCBL blog post, October 2009
Documents and presentations
July 27, 2010 agenda - Water focus
- Emerging issues: managing runoff
Managing runoff: Framing the environmental and cost benefits
(PDF, 1.8mb, Bob Newport, U.S. EPA)
Stormwater fee system and credits
(PDF, 4.2mb, Betsy Yingling, NEORSD)
Stormwater management practices
(PDF, 1.7mb, Bob Newport, U.S. EPA)
- Ohio case study
Collinwood Recreation Center
(PDF, 10mb, Paul Volpe, City Architecture)
- Water conservation: You are what you measure
Water conservation and WaterSense program
(PDF, 2.2mb, Cary McElhinney, U.S. EPA)
Coming soon
Water efficiency opportunities and case studies
(Michael Lonergan. Kohler)
Cleveland's water future
(PDF, 5mb, Gauri Torgalkar, CUDC)
- National success story
Seattle Mariners
(Joe Myhra, director engineering & maintenance)
- May 11, 2010 agenda - Waste focus
- WasteWise - Cleveland Venues presentation (Jacob Hassan, USEPA)
- Stadium Recycling Guidebook (USEPA)
- Cleveland Indians (Brad Mohr)
- Cincinnati Reds (Declan Mullin, VP Operations)
- Rocky Mountian Green Venues
- Partnership agreement
- University of Colorado public space and event recycling presentation (Jack DeBell)
Get involved
- Contact Beau Daane, Business Recycling Specialist Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District, 216-443-3732, bdaane@cuyahogacounty.us
- Next meeting, October 2010, location TBD
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