Asheville Citizen Times: Sensible City
Asheville-based Sensible City, Inc. is a business development firm with a twist. Founder Ian Bryan, 35, eschews traditional PR models in favor of what he calls community-oriented marketing.
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Citizen-Times: What values doe we have in common?
Asheville sure can be a “versus” town sometimes. City slickers vs. county folks. Developers vs. neighborhood groups. Hippie activists vs. bellicose bureaucrats. You know the drill. There’s too much focus on our differences. So I’m always intrigued when there’s an effort to search for what Asheville residents have in common. Enter Asheville-based Barrett Values Centre. [...]
NBC: Digital classrooms for a digital world in Grand Rapids, MI
District officials in Kentwood Michigan hosted the community for a peek inside its high tech classrooms at Meadowlawn Elementary. In this clip, Wood TV 8 explores how the district uses PolyVision’s eno to engage in class with a “more collective and collaborative” style of learning. Superintendent Scott Palczewski explains how technology in the classroom helps [...]
Green Festival adds spring event in San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO – Green Festival®, the nation’s largest and longest running sustainability event, will return to the San Francisco Concourse Exhibition Center this April 10-11, just in time to rev up the Golden Gate city for Earth Day’s 40th anniversary. More than 225 speakers, 350 eco-friendly businesses and a broad range of hands-on workshops will complement this [...]
Greening Live Earth: Rio de Janeiro
Seven-Star, a Sensible City Partner and the world’s largest green event production company, provides a behind the scenes story of greening Live Earth Rio. Live Earth Rio achieved a total waste diversion of over 85% – 15 metric tons of recycling and organics were diverted from landfill.
CF: Urban Re:Vision’s Stacey Frost on Treehugger
Courtesy Treehugger writer Jesse Fox, we bring this interview with Stacey Frost of Urban Re:Vision. “A block is to the city as a cell is to the human body.” Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, [...]
UN Climate Center will be built on San Francisco’s most toxic site
The Hunter’s Point Shipyard in San Francisco is so dangerous that the U.S. Environmental Agency has designated it as one of the most polluted sites in the nation. But instead of letting the site fester, San Francisco has just announced plans to rid the shipyard of its toxins and build the U.N. Global Compact Center, [...]
WIRED joins the social media push for Urban Re:Vision
Dallas: the green frontier The 6th competition in a series, Re:Vision DALLAS is an opportunity to transform an existing city block in Dallas into a model of cutting-edge sustainable practices. We invite you to be part of this ground-breaking effort and help lay the foundation for sustainable urban design, as well as the opportunity to [...]
CF: Green Building Law interviews Ecobuild speaker Malecha
Chris of Green Building Law Update posted this interview with Ecobuild keynote speaker and current AIA President Marvin Malecha. Back in December, Kimberly Miller of Sensible City provided me with a press pass to EcoBuild, which is a fantastic event for those interested in discussing green building policy. At EcoBuild, I was able to interview [...]
Promethean Launches ActivInspire
You can now download a completely new software from Promethean called ActivInspire. The new software represents the culmination of almost three years of effort by a dedicated team within Promethean – and it would not have happened without an immense amount of help from you. As well as a major functionality update, it is also [...]
Green By Design gets it
Any outfit that adheres to their mission to do good stands out in today’s world, and that’s what makes Green By Design outstanding. From the clean, friendly visual presentation to the Green By Design Shop of handpicked toys, gadgets, furniture and other products made sustainably, Green By Design gets it, does it and makes it [...]
