Our Focus Areas
Renewable Energy
In the face of climate change, we strive to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions by transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources.
Waste Reduction
We see the world filling up with trash and are working towards a solution. Sustainable Tallahassee helps you reduce your waste with tips & tricks that you can incorporate in your everyday life.
Transportation
Congested highways are bad for the environment, our health, and our mental wellbeing. We seek to educate & empower community members to utilize alternative forms of transportation.
Food
Ensuring equitable access to healthy, affordable, and nutritious food is a cornerstone of sustainable practices. We seek to collaborate with community partners to facilitate a strong local food system.
Initiatives & Events
Greening Our Community
Greening Our Community is a bi-weekly article published in the Tallahassee Democrat facilitated by Sustainable Tallahassee. These articles are authored by members of the community about sustainability issues impacting us locally and regionally. Greening Our Community is apart of Sustainable Tallahassee’s mission to educate and serve as a catalyst for conversation.
Greening our Community: 2 Degrees Centigrade Explained
Author Patrick Love Some 12,000 years ago, at the start of the current geologic epoch called the…
Greening Our Community: SEED Ambassadors – Expanding Access to Solar
Author Cara Fleischer In February of 2019 the Tallahassee City Commission unanimously passed the Clean Energy Resolution,…
Greening Our Community: Carbon Neutral Campaigns
Shawn Youngblood shares about the Carbon Neutral Campaign initiative.
2023 Board of Directors Applications
Information about the 2023 Board of Directors applications.
Greening Our Community: Recycling? To Toss or Not to Toss
Cyndel Brunell shares about Leon County's recycling efforts.
Greening Our Community: The Coastal Plains Institute – A Conservation Legacy
Ryan Means shares about the history and mission of Coastal Plains Institute.
Greening Our Community: Methane – The New Frontline in the Battle Against Climate Change
Will Hill shares about major initiatives targeting a manmade threat, the Methane Emissions Reduction Initiative (MERI).
Greening Our Community: Seed Time Harvest Farms
Cetta Barnhart shares about her CSA, Seed Time Harvest Farms.
Greening Our Community: Farming the Future
Michele Madison shares about her company, Farming for the Future, and experience in education.