Kent Portney's "Our Green Cities" Blog

Update on Sustainable Greensboro

I posted a note a few weeks ago about the recent sustainability efforts in Greensboro NC.  The organization Sustainable Greensboro has joined forces with the local Chamber of Commerce to engage the business community in starting the process of designing a sustainability plan, a draft of which was presented at a public meeting on July 22.  Apparently about 100 people attended this meeting, which is pretty impressive by most standards.  To read more, see the story in the Greensboro News-Record. 

Sustainable Greensboro Gets Off to a Fast Start

I see that Sustainable Greensboro (NC), a relatively new nonprofit in that city, has gotten off to a fast start.  Thanks to the efforts of Brian Higgins and others, the organization seems to be generating lots of local interest.  To read more about this, check the Greensboro News and Record article.

I haven't been able to get much information about what the city's leaders think about this initiative.  Does it seem like the city government is poised to embrace this effort, or does it all sound foreign to the city's leaders?  If you have some insight on this, please post your comments here.  We'd like to know how things are progressing there.

And if you are in Greensboro, the next meeting of this organization is July 22.  Go to the Sustainable Greensboro web site and look under "calendar" for more details.