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Welcome
Posted by admin on 28 Oct 2011 | Tagged as: Green, hybrid, organic, solar
Green Tallahassee is following news, information and views from around Tallahassee, the State and the nation. News, reviews and interviews on our blog at Green Tallahassee.
Upcoming events? At our Green Tallahassee Calendar. Send your upcoming events!
Green Food Tallahassee highlights slow food, organics and community supported agriculture, including a list of farmer’s markets, farms within 100 mile radius and information we can all use in eating better and enjoying life.
Contact: greentallahassee AT gmail DOT com
Details about Tallahassee events at the Green Tallahassee blog.
2009 GREEN TOP TEN
A LOOK AT THE BIOMASS PLANT MEETING
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 process for siting a small energy producing plant in Florida appears to be inadequate to address the necessary health, environmental and community concerns.
- The implementation of the Campus Master Plan as an effective tool to allow universities, large land-holding institutions, to plan for growth and development outside the local planning process was not intended to adequately plan for something like a power plant siting in a residential neighborhood. It was intended to plan for future land use including classrooms, housing, research facilities, infrastructure (including roads and the traffic it creates), conservation, recreation and open space, parking facilities and all other things normally associated with a university’s growth. The 6C-21, Florida Administrative Code governs Campus Master Plans. https://www.flrules.org/gateway/ChapterHome.asp?Chapter=6C-21
- Some of the Guest Panelists added no substantive information
- Many residents and other interested audience participants did their homework before coming
- The City of Tallahassee has studied alternative sources of energy, including solar, geothermal, wind, tidal and biomass, with emphasis on demand management and conservation. Solar PVE was determined not cost effective in today’s market, while solar thermal is considered cost effective.
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.
PARTICIPATE IN TALLAHASSEE’S GREEN RESOLUTIONS
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!
2008 Green Top Ten
Which Candidate is Green?
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?
RECYLING ELECTRONICS
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.
- Leon County Electronics Recycling Center, 7550 Apalachee Parkway which is also the Hazardous Waste Center and right before you actually get to the land fill.
- Marpan Recycling on 6020 Woodville Highway takes construction and demolition debris, scrap metals, furniture, appliances, yard and landscape trimmings, and cardboard. Their tipping fee is $34 per ton, currently two dollars less than the County with a minimum fee of $5.00. They take some types of hazardous waste, as well televisions and monitors, charging $20 for monitors smaller than 19 inches and an additoinal fee for monitors larger than 19 inches and devices that contain Freon.
