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We work by thinking and doing. We research the best solutions, bring people together and participate in community initiatives, conduct demonstration projects, communicate the best ideas, and advocate publicly for change. Below, you'll find a summary of some of the impactful projects that GCBL is involved with. Each individual project page has more details, including opportunities to get involved.
Access for All: Innerbelt bike and pedestrian access
In 2010, the Access for All campaign started a dialogue across the region about the practicality of cycling and walking safely on public rights of way.
Bike share is a sustainable transportation idea that is coming of age in America. Unlike some more hard-core issues, like expanding bike lanes, bike share is exciting a wider audience to consider riding a bike in their city.
Complete Streets are designed and operated to enable safe access for all users. Pedestrians, bicyclists, motorists and transit riders of all ages and abilities must be able to safely move along and across a complete street. Complete Streets change the traditional transportation paradigm from "moving cars quickly" to "providing safe...
In our automobile culture, transit gets little respect, but it's a vital part of a healthy, sustainable city. In Northeast Ohio, cities haven't come close to realizing the promise of transit - especially at a time of rising gasoline costs when people need affordable transportation choices.
The benefits of the West Shoreway project include calming traffic, re-creating the street grid* for more access to Lake Erie, a lakefront path as regional attraction, and to open up more land for parks and for development as a new lakefront west neighborhood.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History building project
In December 2012, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History announced ambitious plans to renovate and expand its facilities in University Circle. The $125-million-dollar project will create a new museum where exhibits, research laboratories, and collections are integrated in exciting ways to bring science alive. This page will track the design...
"Sustainable Cleveland 2019 is about using our best assets, natural resources, and human capital to benefit the City of Cleveland, area businesses and the 1.6 million people in this region. The benefits we seek are economic prosperity for businesses and individuals and an improved quality of life in the region,...
Founded in 2009 the Cleveland Carbon Fund is the first community-based carbon reduction fund in the United States. The Cleveland Carbon Fund invests in local community projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and spark economic development in Cleveland.
Climate change transitions for Northeast Ohio
The GreenCityBlueLake Institute completed an emissions inventory of greenhouse gases in Northeast Ohio using 2005 as a baseline year. We also developed 3 detailed transition plans for our largest sources of emissions - buildings, energy production, and transportation.
CMNH Greenhouse gas emissions inventory
GreenCityBlueLake completed a comprehensive greenhouse gas emissions inventory for the Museum in 2008. Below are the results.
During summer and early fall of 2011, visitors to The Cleveland Museum of Natural History were invited to tour a home that could represent the future of energy-efficient housing.
Pop up Rockwell was a weeklong makeover of a downtown Cleveland street in 2012 with the goal of raising awareness for more transportation choice and healthier social interactions. Thousands of people, from families with small children to workers commuting in from the suburbs, experienced the transformation of a pass-thru street...
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