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Prioritizing climate and equity: Can Bibb’s new sustainability director get it done?
Cleveland is losing trees; health and environmental advocates call for planting
City pushes electric mowers to improve air quality
Cleveland nonprofit upcycles computers to bridge the digital divide
PCs for People isn’t just a warehouse full of your dad’s old junk. This company is upcycling old computers and other technology to help bridge the digital divide. They bring power to the people or, at least, their computers, monitors and wifi routers.
The road to fixing climate change runs through Northeast Ohio
The biggest culprit of climate change in Northeast Ohio may be our roads, which have expanded despite population declines. After contributing to the problem for decades by funding highway expansions, NOACA, the region’s transportation agency, is now trying to do something about it.
Clevelanders keep items out of the landfill through fix-it clinic, repair programs
Whether its composting, sewing or collecting cans, Clevelanders are finding creative ways to keep items out of landfills.
How Cleveland is salvaging old buildings to create a new circular economy
When two Cleveland-area nonprofits, MetroHealth and MAGNET, embarked on major building projects, they also set the lofty goal of going green. They used deconstruction, or the practice of carefully dismantling old buildings for reuse, to reduce the amount of waste going to a landfill.
Q&A: Jessica Davis of Rebuilders Xchange, a hub for salvaged building materials
Being in the salvage business for a while, Jessica Davis has learned first-hand that “there are people who understand that there are materials that have a higher purpose.”
Vision Zero Cleveland looking for action (and input) to reduce traffic deaths
Going on five years, bike and pedestrian advocates and City of Cleveland officials who are concerned with the yearly death toll on city streets from motor vehicles have studied the causes and locations and discussed what to do about it. This month, the Vision Zero Task Force, as it’s known, is finally ready to present its action plan in a series of public meetings.
