E4S in the News
PNC SmartHome Cleveland Presented by The Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Being Smart About Home-Energy Conservation: Cleveland Museum of Natural History's "PNC SmartHome Cleveland"
Wednesday, June 15, 2011 - noon
Panel Discussion: Dr. Evalyn Gates, Mark Hoberecht, and Chuck Miller
Moderator: Holly Harlan
Introducer: James Harris, H/L Communications
2011 Biomimicry Education Summit Comes to Cleveland June 27
The Biomimicry Institute is excited to host their 5th Annual Biomimicry Education Summit in Cleveland. The Summit brings together practicing biomimicry college and university professors, and formal and informal youth educators, from around the world to engage, collaborate, and network. Today's students want skills that will help them succeed and allow them to work according to their ethics in a rapidly evolving world. Biomimicry is an excellent tool to gives the next generation a roadmap for systems thinking, cross-discipline collaboration, and sustainable innovation.
E4S Announces the Re-launch of the E4S Akron Network
The Akron network events will take place on the second Wednesday of every month, beginning June 8, from 5:30 – 8:30pm at Musica, located in downtown Akron at 51 E. Market Street on Maiden Lane.
Michael Dungan, Executive Director (interim) for E4S states that the Akron community
has been a long time supporter of the work of E4S. “We felt it was important to remain
embedded in the Akron market as we advance the implementation of sustainability principles
ZeroLandfill™ Cleveland Partners with Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District
ZeroLandfill™, a project of BeeDance, LLC, is launching its sixth year of reuse programming in Cleveland. Long time partner, the Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District welcomes the ZeroLandfill™ Cleveland project to their facility at 4750 East 131 Street, Garfield Heights for 2011 programming.
trash compactor: E4S's zero waste initiative is far from zero-sum proposition
In the fast-emerging era of reduce, reuse and recycle, Cleveland businesses are learning that tracking their trash and finding ways to remove more of it from the waste stream isn't a waste of time. In fact, waste reduction efforts can be quite profitable.
Cleveland downtown businesses avoid landfill, send food waste to be composted into soil additives
CLEVELAND, Ohio -- There`s something rotten in downtown Cleveland.
But this might be urban decay Northeast Ohio can brag about -- and the next big green thing, some local sustainability experts say.
This is food composting -- in a big way.
Large-scale downtown food-waste makers like The Q, Tower City and the Browns, along with restaurants like the Great Lakes Brewing Co. and the Greenhouse Tavern, are heading a new effort to keep tons of biodegradable food scraps out of the landfill.
Local Food Cleveland pushes for local-food `superstars`
By Debbi Snook
The Plain Dealer
March 03, 2010, 8:12AM
As the Olympic theme trumpeted in the background, medals on shiny ribbons were draped over the necks of winners: the cattleman, the cheese maker, the chicken farmer, the beekeeper, the vegetable growers.
The purpose of the ceremony, performed at Monday night`s meeting of Local Food Cleveland, a network of Entrepreneurs for Sustainability, or E4S, was clear. Network manager Peter McDermott wanted the audience at the Great Lakes Brewing Co. to imagine the people who raise local food as superstars.
Cleveland`s "Green-Thinking Entrepreneurs" Highlighted In Business Week Magazine
By Emily Schmitt
SPECIAL REPORT
Business Week
August 7, 2009