Sustainability

The green movement is alive and well in the Tampa Bay region with builders scrambling to obtain LEED certifications and cities passing ordinances requiring construction meet new environmentally friendly specs. Among those leading local efforts: Earth Charter and the Urban Charrette. Recognition for Best Practices by Sustainable Florida include Hillsborough Community College for its South Shore Center and the City of St. Petersburg for its Green City Initiative.

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Green Beings Feed A Hunger In Tampa Bay

By B.C. Manion Tuesday, March 09, 2010

Residents of the Tampa Bay region don't have to travel far to find Earth-friendly green businesses that cater to every whim. Shops run by dedicated environmentalists and entrepreneurs remain true to Mother Nature and Father Time by engaging in sales and trades designed to ensure our sustainability.read on…

Urban Charrette Helps Nurture Life In Downtown Tampa

By Brad Stager Tuesday, March 02, 2010

The Urban Charrette, a nonprofit organization created by a small but highly energized group of visionary people, aims to help transform Downtown Tampa into a place to call home for transplants as well as natives while attracting talented new residents. The founders bring a mix of architectural, design, artistic, political and progressive thinking credentials to the task.read on…

Redesigning Tampa's Urban Core Sparks Creativity

By B.C. Manion Tuesday, February 23, 2010

USF graduate students captured two international design awards for proposals to reclaim and revitalize neighborhoods bordering downtown Tampa that have long thirsted for the creativity, new energy and strategic investments that will be required to make such dynamic dreams become reality. read on…

Bradenton Private School LEEDs Manatee County In Going Green

By Jeff Berlinicke Tuesday, February 16, 2010

The new Saint Stephen's Episcopal School is among the first publicly registered schools in the Tampa Bay region to seek a LEED Gold certification for environmental awareness. Officials aim to win the prestigious Gold certification by the end of the school year. read on…

Tell Us What You Think About High-Speed Rail Connecting Tampa, Orlando

By Diane Egner Tuesday, February 02, 2010

83 Degrees spent the day -- before, during and after the President's Jan. 28 Town Hall meeting in Tampa at the University of Tampa -- listening to what people had to say about high-speed rail and recorded interviews with several participants and observers.read on…

Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo Goes Solar

By B.C. Manion Tuesday, January 12, 2010

An $800,000 project at Lowry Park Zoo, funded by TECO and a grant from the Florida High Tech Corridor, gives USF researchers and Tampa Electric a chance to learn more about the technical, economic and environmental impacts of using smart grid technologies to connect consumer solar array systems to the regional electrical grid.read on…

The Heights Aims To Transform Tampa's Riverfront

By Janan Talafer Tuesday, January 12, 2010

The Heights project is transforming a 48-acre industrial site on the southern most tip of Tampa Heights into a pedestrian-friendly downtown neighborhood with some 2,000 mixed-income residential lofts and condos, and several hundred thousand square feet of shops, restaurants, hotels and offices along the Hillsborough River. Plans also call for a marina with 100 boat slips. read on…

Beck Group Moves Into The Heights

By Julia Silva Rettig Monday, January 11, 2010

The Beck Group joins a growing list of businesses relocating into the Tampa Heights neighborhood just north of downtown along the Hillsborough River. The area is already home to the Tampa campus of Stetson University College of Law, the Hillsborough County Bar Association's headquarters and nonprofit foundation, and the Bush Ross law firm. read on…

USF Scientist Tracks Dirt Path To Sustainable Future

By Kurt Loft Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Archaeologist Christian Wells takes the helm of USF's new Office of Sustainability and hopes to plant lots of green ideas locally and globally.read on…

Saturday Morning Market Thrives In St. Petersburg

By Paul Wilborn Tuesday, December 08, 2009

Like many other urban markets around the country, the Saturday Morning Market in downtown St. Petersburg is about more than better food. It's about a better life. Healthy living, recycling, renewal are the underpinnings of most of the products and services.read on…

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