September 2010

Block Energy Design, a green building and energy consultancy based in Santa Cruz, CA, has changed its name to Bright Green Strategies . The founder and president, Sharon Block, has been working in the building energy efficiency field for over twenty years, and established Block Energy Design in 1992. Ms. Block explains, To me Bright Green Strategies…

Imagine a building in which sunlight could be captured and utilized in the most unexpected and never-before-seen places. Imagine the “World’s First Green Olympics.” Imagine employees who are happier, more productive, healthier and less prone to accidents. All are reality, thanks to Solatube International’s tubular Daylighting Devices, which use state-of-the-art design to provide superior …

GREEN — Budgetary matters were discussed during the Sept. 14 Green City Council meeting, with members of Council approving their own budget for 2011, as well as accepting the report of the fact-finder appointed by the State Employee Relations Board regarding the collective bargaining agreement between the city and the dispatchers union.

GREEN — The new busing schedule for Green Local Schools students is causing “a bit of discomfort,” and adjustments are being made, said Superintendent Michael Nutter at the Green Local School District Board of Education meeting Sept. 9.

CANAL WINCHESTER — Diley Ridge Medical Center, central Ohio’s first 24 hour, full-service emergency center, has earned LEED Gold certification from the United States Green Building Council, making it Ohio’s first Gold LEED-certified health care facility.

The William Randolph Hearst Building received a gold certification Thursday for green efforts made in its renovation. The U.S. Green Building Council awarded it the highest level of certification after the yearlong $2.35 million project. “I’m thrilled. It’s a very big deal,” said architect Bethany Trombley, senior project manager for the Classrooms, Offices and Auxiliary team at UT’s Project …

Its name would warm only a bureaucrat’s heart.

New York City’s Tavern on the Green, once America’s top grossing restaurant, will soon be back in business, but not with the same meat-and-potatoes fare.

DOWNEY — With the work of the spunky volunteer Green Task Force and its subcommittees essentially done, the City Council Tuesday approved the introduction of an ordinance, which is actually the ad hoc task force’s recommendation No. 1, setting up a permanent Green Task Force to continue its work and help the city forever think green.