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 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.
Whether its composting, sewing or collecting cans, Clevelanders are finding creative ways to keep items out of landfills.
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.
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.”
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.
Two Cleveland non-profit organizations have launched Circular Cleveland, a small grant program that is funding individuals who are reusing and repairing old cars, clothes, furniture that would ordinarily end up going into a landfill.
Five nonprofit groups whose work focuses on improving parks have formed the Cleveland Parks and Greenspace Coalition to push for equitable access to green space, transparency in how investments are made, and residents taking “ownership” over parks in the city. Cleveland has fallen behind its peer cities in providing equitable parks for all, they say, and the time is right to dismantle structures that perpetuate racism.
Predatory lending contributed to more than Cleveland’s foreclosure crisis — it also produced a glut of demolished homes that have nowhere to go. The current proposal is to send it to a large landfill but its owner says it is filling up fast — a situation that is causing concern for a small village in the Cuyahoga River Valley.
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