This Month at Green Drinks
Geeen Business Development Committee - This committee has been established to promote and support green businesses in the Tallahassee area. The committee has joined with the FAMU Small Business Development Center to offer training and other support services to small green businesses. Plans are underway to have these services available not later than October 1st.
Deepwater Horizon Oilspill Information
Dr. Jeff Chanton will be speaking and answering questions about the Gulf oilspill. Dr. Chanton is a Chemical Oceanographer with FSU's Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science.
Reusable Resource Center
Bill Berlow, Brooke Lochore, Norm Thomas, and Steve Urse will be talking about this new teachers resource center.
Find out at Green Drinks on Wednesday how you can continue to recycle lots of stuff you don't want and at the same time help teachers and students in Leon County public schools. The boards of four organizations - two of Tallahassee's local governments and two nonprofits - recently approved an agreement to open a Reusable Resource Center to provide teachers with donated and gently used reusable items. Learn more from partner representatives Bill Berlow, Leon County Schools; Brooke Lochore, Goodwill Big Bend, Inc.; Steve Urse, Sustainable Tallahasee; and Norm Thomas, Leon County. We'll keep it short so you can ask lots of questions.
Spotlight on Green Education
Carlos Boueres and Mike Brezin from ST's Education Committee will be speaking.
Local Recycling Efforts
Come out to Waterworks to hear Carole Gentry, from Leon County and Paul Hurst, from the City of Tallahassee discuss local recycling efforts and answer your questions.
Projects Update
Join us at Waterworks to hear Stewart Parsons, chairman of the Projects Committee, Steve Urse, Recycling Project chairman, and James Young, chairman of the Solar Advocacy Group, discuss their projects and answer your sustainability questions.
Come learn how Sustainable Tallahassee is making a difference.
Sustainable Sites Initiative: Guidelines for Sustainable Land Design, Construction and Maintenance Practices.
Our speakers will be J. David Malcolm, ASLA, a Principal and Shawn C. Kalbi, ASLA, an Associate from Wood + Partners, Inc. a Tallahassee land planning and landscape architecture firm designing such projects as Evening Rose, the City of Tallahasse-owned Welaunee Tract, and the FAMU Master Plan. For the first time in Tallahassee they will present an overview of the Sustainable Sites Initiative developed by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. The Sustainable Sites Initiative was created to promote sustainable land development and management practices that can apply to sites with and without buildings. Elements of the Sustainable Sites initiative have been adopted by the SUGBC and integrated into the pending LEED Neighborhood Design rating system.
J. David Malcolm, ALSA currently serves on the City of Tallahassee Urban Design Commission and Keep Tallahassee-Leon County Beautiful. Shawn C. Kallbli, ASLA, currently serves as an Adjunct Professor in the Landscape Architecture Program in the School of Architecture at FAMU and is the Chair of the Government Affairs Committee for the Florida Chapter of ALSA.
Join us to hear David Malcolm and Shawn Kalbli Wednesday, September 30th from 5:45-7:15pm at Waterworks.