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Posted by admin on 28 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: Green, hybrid, organic, solar


Details about Tallahassee events at the Green Tallahassee blog.
Posted by admin on 06 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: Biomass, Green
The Council of Neighborhood Associations (CONA) held their public, town-hall style meeting last night, which was well attended. The Tallahassee Democrat reported over 100 people in the audience.
Some very well informed people from the audience asked questions which supported their skepticism about the biomass project proposed by BG & E, and approved in FSU’s Campus Master Plan.
Some of the people at the front table had done their homework and many of us in the audience shook our collective heads when some others spoke, wondering why they had been invited in the first place.
The moderator, Marjorie Turnbull, did a commendable job in letting individuals have the floor without interruptions from either side.
Lesson Learned:
The meeting started with a lengthy, overview of what is biomass by Ben Cowart, Department of Energy Services for the City of Tallahassee. Here’s a clearer, shorter biomass 101 from Wikipedia.
At the end of the meeting, it was confirmed by BG & E official, Glenn Farris, that the sources of the biomass to gasify in the proposed plant has not been secured as of yet. [BiomassGasElectric, Inc.
Posted by admin on 02 Jan 2009 | Tagged as: Green
sure, you resolve to reduce your carbon footprint in 2009, but what are you going to do?
Click here to publish your commitment and add some extra resolutions in the comments!
Posted by admin on 17 Oct 2008 | Tagged as: Green
BIG BEND ENVIRONMENTAL CANDIDATE FORUM
Thursday night’s candidates forum at Tallahassee City Hall was a mix of candidate opinions, rehearsed quotes with a few good ideas mixed in. Few candidates were well versed in the issues and fewer still had any good suggestions to address global warming, transportation alternatives, reducing the local governments’ carbon footprint, supporting alternative energy and smart growth policies. The event was sponsored by the Big Bend Environmental Forum, the League of Women Voters, the Council of Neighborhood Associations and Sustainable Tallahassee. For the most part, questions came from the audience and were read from cards by the moderator, sometimes with his own additions, interpretations or commentary. Each candidate was not asked to answer each question. Sometimes candidates were asked new questions instead of being provided a chance to answer the same question as his/her preceding opponent. This meant that either the second responding candidate had to take time allotted to answer the new question to address the preceding question or he/she had to skip the preceding question altogether. This format made it difficult to track each candidate’s response to each issue.
Here’s a summary of candidates as they appeared.
City of Tallahassee Commission, Seat 1
How Would You Address the Issue of Urban Sprawl?
Posted by admin on 04 May 2008 | Tagged as: Green
Where to get rid of those used electronics? They can’t go in the land fill.