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Showcasing Sustainability |
Sometimes it's easier to highlight examples of sustainable practices then it is trying to explain what it means to be sustainable. Hopefully the resources provided on this page will encourage you to formally adopt and implement similar practices.
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"The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased and not impaired in value." President Theodore Roosevelt |
- Showcase Highlight
- How to Become Sustainable
- Reading Library
- Links
- Regionalism/Visioning
- Green Building
- Florida Government
- Florida Associations
- National (coming soon)
Sustainable Florida is pleased to host Darcy Hitchcock, with Portland-based Axis Performance Advisors, in offering an exclusive two-day training program that will provide a practical step-by-step process for creating sustainability plans, conducting sustainability assessments and facilitating your sustainability journey. Register today! Pay online with a credit card. Here is the draft Workshop Agenda.
This workshop is for chief executive officers, environmental managers, chief financial officers, consultants, and your "Green Team" leader. Students will learn how to move their organization along the path to sustainability. Participants should have a strong working knowledge of sustainability practices, frameworks and methods.
The two-day course costs $750 per person* which includes a copy of the award-winning practical book, The Business Guide to Sustainability; SPaRK - the Sustainability Planning and Reporting Kit – a set of electronic files to help you develop your own sustainability plan, metrics and report; and the training necessary to be certified to administer the SCORE sustainability assessment. If you want to use SCORE in your own organization, you can save the cost of an external assessor. If you're a consultant, you will have a new tool to add to your bag of tricks. Lunch and breaks are also included.
The training will take place at the Florida DEP Green Lodging-Certified Downtown Orlando Marriott Courtyard. A room rate of $109 per night plus taxes is available. The rate includes a free breakfast buffet. Please make reservations by May 21, 2008. Call direct at 407/996.1000 - group name: Sustainable Florida.
* Discounts are available for current Sustainable Florida Partners at Manatee Donor levels and above.
Future availability of natural resources and a clean and healthy environment are essential to many businesses. Our ability to address environmental and social issues depends on having a strong and vibrant economy.
We can each make a meaningful contribution toward creating a sustainable Florida. Starting at home, when you travel, go to work, grocery shop and eat out, you can help. Even when you invest and volunteer you are making a difference.
Additionally, many businesses are demonstrating that environmentally-sound business practices makes good economic sense. They are improving product quality and production efficiency, reducing energy needs, and minimizing the costs associated with pollution.
Click here to find out how you can be more sustainable.
Read a good book lately? These help explain the economics of sustainability.
- Green to Gold - Esty and Winston
- The Triple Bottom Line - Savitz and Weber
Several regional and local initiatives committed to helping create a sustainable Florida.
- Florida's Great Northwest
- Heartland Visioning
- Jacksonville Community Council
- Lakeland Vision (Polk County)
- City of Miami - Green Commission
- My Region.org (Orange, Osceola, Polk, Seminole, Lake, Volusia & Brevard Counties)
- My Green Tallahassee
- Polk Vision
- Sarasota Green Connection
- South Florida Regional Resource Center (Palm Beach, Broward, Miami-Dade & Monroe Counties)
- Southeast Florida Regional Equitable Connection
- Southwest Florida Regional Stewardship Alliance
- St. Johns Vision (St. Johns County)
- Sustainable Alachua
- Sustainable Big Bend
- Ourregiontomorrow.org (9-county area around the Capital)
- Sustainable Emerald Coast
- Sustainable Pinellas County (Pinellas County Extension Office)
- Sustainable Sarasota
- Sustainable Treasure Coast (Indian River, Martin & Port St. Lucie Counties)
- Tampa Bay Partnership
- Taylor County - Vision2060
- Tallahassee - Knight Creative Communities Initiative
- Pinellas County - Living Green Expo
- Southern Growth Policies Board (Southeastern US)
- Florida Green Building Coalition
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U.S. Green Building Council
Central Florida Chapter
Gulf Coast Chapter
Check out the new site - Sustainable Tampa Bay
Heart of Florida Chapter (web site up soon)
North Florida Chapter
Northern Gulf Coast Chapter (organizing)
South Florida Chapter
State of Florida - Government Resources
- Century Commission for a Sustainable Florida
- Florida Energy Commission
- Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission
- Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Department of Community Affairs
- Department of Environmental Protection
- Clean Marina Program
- Green Lodging Program
- Green Yards Program (auto dismantlers and recycling)
- Learning in Florida's Environment (LIFE)
- Department of Transportation
Florida - Regional Planning Councils
- Apalachee Regional Planning Council
- Central Florida Regional Planning Council
- East Central Florida Regional Planning Council
- Northeast Florida Regional Planning Council
- South Florida Regional Planning Council
- Southwest Florida Regional Planning Council
- Tampa Bay Regional Planning Council
- Treasure Coast Regional Planning Council
- West Florida Regional Planning Council
- Withlacoochee Regional Planning Council
Florida - Water Management Districts (WMDs)