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The US is a water hog - scientists say conservation is a must listen
05/24/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Friday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: water, sustainability, USF, Patel Center, Patel College of Global Sustainability
People in the United States use about twice as much water as other countries. That’s one of the many problems mulled over today by a team of researchers at an annual water conference at the USF Patel College of Global Sustainability.
“About 40% of the water that we use in the region is for outdoor water use.”
That’s Christine Owen, the senior manager for regulatory compliance for Tampa Bay Water.
Be the first to comment“And each government calculates what their per capita is. But if you look at our reg...
St. Pete groups ready to lobby officials for improved curbside recycling program listen
04/16/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling, St. Pete, League of Women Voters, environment, sustainability, Sierra Club, St. Pete Chamber of Commerce
The city of St. Petersburg doesn’t offer free curbside recycling to residents; some community-based groups are pulling together to change that. The League of Women Voters of St. Petersburg has hired a consultant to look into the feasibility of universal curbside recycling in the city. The group’s president, Karen Coale, announced the results during a press conference in front of City Hall Tuesday morning.
Be the first to comment“Curbside recycling is the norm throughout all of the other 49 populated cities i...
Cleaning up dirty water can create energy listen
03/27/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: waste water, water, clean water, USF, sustainability, numeric nutrient standards, EPA
Researchers at the University of South Florida showed off their work with waste water and other testing technologies to officials from the Environmental Protection Agency. During lab tours today, Professor Daniel Yeh demonstrated how the water that gets dumped, flushed or otherwise thrown out can be put to better use.
Be the first to comment“If you can just re-route the electrodes that’s built into the waste organic matter, we can actually turn the waste organic matter into methane which is basically natural g...
St. Pete group wants city to offer free curbside recycling listen
03/25/13 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: recycling, St. Pete, League of Women Voters, environment, sustainability, Studio@620
St. Petersburg residents have to pay $45 a year if they want their recyclables picked up curbside. The League of Women Voters of St. Petersburg wants to change that. Karen Coale, the chapter’s president, will kick off an effort called the People’s Trash Monday night at Studio@620 in downtown.
Be the first to comment"It is a new campaign for this year that's kicking off tonight. The League of Women Voter's is probably most known for our voter registration and voter education but we also look at issues; natio...
Beyond Sustainability conference creates links between communities in Tampa Bay listen
02/28/13 Lenka DavisWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: sustainability, education, green business, community dialogue, aquaponics
One of the greatest myths of today´s economy is that sustainability cannot be profitable. In fact , sustainable strategies are getting more necessary to remain competitive. Today and tomorrow, the Institute of Florida Studies at Hillsborough Community College is hosting a conference called Beyond Sustainability. It focuses on the three Es: education, ecosystems and economics.
Sudeep Vyapari, the host of the conference and the director of the Institute of Florida Studies decided to enrich ...
1 commentsEco-Smart architectural salvage
11/12/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: insulation, sustainability, restoration, LED
On today’s Sustainable Living program our guests were Mike Evans with Eco-Smart, a company that markets healthy, efficient products for sustainable living; and Jesse White, the owner of Sarasota Architectural Salvage; they’re all about historic preservation, restoration, and adaptive reuses. Jesse talked about his path to creating a green business and its challenges. He usually just buys the salvage rights before a house is demol...
Be the first to commentGroup wants a switch to compressed natural gas to help clean up Tampa Bay air listen
08/14/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: compressed natural gas, Clean Cities Coalition, Clean City, USF, Patel Center, sustainability, transportation
A trio of public and private groups in the Tampa Bay area is joining forces to reduce dependence on petroleum. The University of South Florida, the Environmental Protection Commission of Hillsborough County and TECO Energy committed funding to the Clean Cities Coalition this morning at USF’s Patel Center for Global Sustainability. USF president Judy Genshaft said transportation accounts for more than 71% of the nation’s petroleum consumption.
Be the first to comment“Vehicles are major sources of greenhouse g...
Local groups promoting sustainability
08/06/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: sustainability, The Bridge Tampa, Sustany, Earth Charter, Going Green Tampa
On today’s program we talked with three groups about their efforts to promote sustainability here in the Tampa Bay area. We had the founder of The Bridge Tampa, a non-profit organization that promotes ecocentric living, social justice and personal development, Rebecca Blanco. With her was one of their board members John Arnaldi. He’s a Life Coach with a PhD in counselor education and recently co-authored “Ethic Efficacy of the Global War on Terrorism."
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Be the first to commentLocal farmers featured at 2012 Small Farm Conference
07/09/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: gardening, sustainability, farming
We started today’s Sustainable Living Program with Susan Kelly, the publicity chair for this year’s Florida Small Farms & Alternative Enterprises Conference July 27 to July 29th in Kissimmee. Also joining us was one of the Innovative Farms Award winners for this year, Pam Sindlinger. She and her husband Hank are owners of Gateway Organic Farm a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) in Pinellas County. Gateway is one of the two organic farms in our area w...
Be the first to commentHome solar electric systems
06/25/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar, energy, sustainability, efficiency, solar power
On today’s Sustainable Living program we spent the hour talking about home solar electric systems. Our first guest, Paul Spencer, is the founder of The Clean Energy Collective located in Colorado. Paul’s business is setting up community solar power and other forms of renewable energy systems (wind, hydro, etc) that you can buy into for the long term, off-setting part or all of your power consumption to renewable. You can visit his website to find out more ...
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