From Green Right Now Reports
Columbus, Ohio, is celebrating the opening of the Grange Insurance Audubon Center at Scioto Audubon Metro Park, a brownfield redevelopment site that is a major bird migration stopover point. The $14.5 million center is the first of its kind to be built so close to surrounding urban spaces, according to Ohio officials.
“This new park and nature center are a treasure for our community and are a vital component in making Columbus’ urban spaces a great place to live, work or visit,” John O’Meara, executive director of Metro Parks, said in a statement.
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Out of excuses: You — yes, you — can ride your bike to work
By Melissa Segrest
Green Right Now
Paul Dorn knows that getting Americans to ride a bike to work instead of driving a car is quite the uphill battle. Even on a good day, he says, only a tiny percentage of the nation’s commuters use pedal power to get to their jobs.
He remains undeterred.
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Tags: · bicycle commuting, Bike-to-Work Week, Boulder, Columbus, Davis, League of American Bicyclists, National Bicycle Month, Paul Dorn, Paul Dorn and bike-to-work, Philadelphia, Portland, top cities for cyclists, top states for cyclists
Mid-size cities go green
By Kelly Rondeau
Move over Seattle, Portland, and Austin and other green heavyweights — make room for some like-minded, newcomers.
Columbus, Ohio; New Orleans, La., Syracuse, N.Y., and Louisville, Kty., residents might not be wearing Birkenstocks and basking under solar tubes. But they are living in some of the growing number of mid-sized, Middle American cities that are making impressive green strides, changing their attitudes and getting smarter about eco-choices.
Syracuse, led by Mayor Matthew Driscoll, is becoming a greener “Emerald City” of New York with its sustainability website, partnerships with area universities and a solid number 17 placement for 2008 on Popular Science’s list of the 50 Greenest Cities in the U
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Tags: · bike paths, Columbus, green growth, Greenest Cities, Greenlight New Orleans, ICLEI, Local Governments for Sustainability, Louisville, Make It Right, New Orleans, sustainable cities, Syracuse
