by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing As the month of May wraps up, our hats are off to new college graduates. Congratulations and welcome to the “real world”! If finding a job is your next step, why not explore the possibility of a “green” job? You don’t have to be a scientist or environmental engineer […]
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Thanks to everyone who showed up for our Great American Cleanup event at the Seaplane basin on April 27.
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing We’ve made it to the tenth post in our series about local companies that have achieved the City of Tampa’s Green Business Designation. That honor goes to HOK Architecture, a global design, architecture and engineering firm founded in 1955. HOK’s Tampa office opened in 1984 and they received their designation
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Here’s the ninth post in our series about local companies that have achieved the City of Tampa’s Green Business Designation. This week we highlight eBridge, which provides document management solutions to businesses of all sizes. Their hosted document management system helps businesses eliminate the waste, risk and inefficiencies of
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing This week our story comes full circle. We started with the Sustany® grant to Dana Pounds and Nature’s Academy some years ago. Then the Lightning Foundation grant to Nature’s Academy this past March. And then Dana Pounds’ donation of $20,000 back to the Sustany® Foundation shortly after that. What
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Sustany®, along with Davis Islands Civic Association, is participating in the Great American Clean Up this Saturday, April 27, 8:30-12:00. The Davis Island Seaplane Basin is Sustany®’s adopted area. Join student groups from the University of Tampa in helping Sustany® keep the Seaplane Basin beautiful! Everything we need to do clean up is provided by Keep
by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing Last week I learned that lightning really can strike twice! Dana Pounds, Executive Director of Nature’s Academy, has not only won a $50,000 grant from the Lightning Foundation. But Manatee County has officially proclaimed that April 20, 2013 is Dana Pounds Day, in recognition of her contributions to the
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by Alison Lueders, Great Green Editing There’s a neat story behind the recent grant of $20,000 to the Sustany® Foundation. It’s a great example of “what goes around comes around” in the best sense of that phrase. It starts with the Tampa Bay Lightning. At the beginning of the 2011-2012 season, Lightning owner Jeff Vinik
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By Thomas L. Friedman New York Times One of my favorite quotes about the state of U.S. politics was offered a couple of years ago by Gerald Seib, a Wall Street Journal columnist, when he observed, “America and its political leaders, after two decades of failing to come together to solve big problems, seem to
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Times Editorial: No time to waste in springs’ restoration The legislative session is nearly half-finished and still there is no serious movement toward repairing Florida’s springs. With $4 billion in new revenue from a rebounding economy, there is enough money for lawmakers to make a serious down payment on restoration that is critical to the
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