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Welcome to the July 2008 Edition of the City of Fort Wayne’s Green City email newsletter.
Upcoming events:
“Green” Meet & Mingle Planned for July 31st at Club Soda
The Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition is hosting a networking event for those interested in ‘green’ and sustainable personal and commercial practices. The open-house style event is open to the public and will be held at Club Soda on July 31st beginning at 5:00 pm.
Tom Henry, Mayor of the City of Fort Wayne will speak beginning at 6:00 pm regarding the City’s green initiatives. Following the Mayor’s address, IPFW’s Chancellor Michael Wartell will be introducing a collaborative opportunity for construction-related competencies and green building at IPFW.
The event is $5.00 cash at the door with proceeds going toward the Northeast Indiana Green Build Coalition.
For more information, visit:
http://www.neigbc.org
Local Farmers Markets are open for the season. South Side, Barr Street, and Salomon Farm are the most popular in Fort Wayne.
For hours and days these markets are open, visit:
http://www.localharvest.org and search for Fort Wayne, IN.
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This edition of the Green City email newsletter contains:
*Green Tip of the Month
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*Green Tip of the Month
This month’s Green Tip is a survey to find out how green you are. National Geographic recently completed a study on how our personal choices add up and affect us on a global perspective. You can adopt certain behaviors that will help the environment a more sustainable place. Take the quiz, and let me know what you get. The higher the score the better, 60 is the top score.
http://event.nationalgeographic.com/greendex/calculator.html
p.s. I got a 57.
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*Energy Efficient Buildings Executive Order for Indiana
Governor Mitch Daniels issued Executive Order 08-14 in late June to establish energy efficiency in state buildings. It states that all new state buildings, including all state agencies, departments, offices, boards, commissions, and public universities, have to be designed, constructed, operated, and maintained to achieve maximum energy efficiency including consideration for life cycle costing of the building. The term “efficiency” can be demonstrated by building either silver rating for LEED, two globes rating for Green Globes, or Energy Star rated by the EPA. This Executive Order also states that repair or renovation of all existing state buildings must be designed to achieve maximum energy efficiency. This is a great advancement by the state.
For more information, or to view the Executive Order in its entirety, please visit:
http://www.cityoffortwayne.org/energy/
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*New Location for CFL Recycling
The Home Depot on Lima Road has now begun accepting burned-out Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (CFLs) for recycling. Customers can simply bring in any expired, unbroken CFLs, and give them to the store associate behind the returns desk. Connolly’s Do It Best Corp. in Fort Wayne also recycles CFLs at their three locations on Dupont, Maplecrest, and S. Calhoun.
Switching from traditional incandescent light bulbs to CFLs is an easy change consumers can make to reduce energy use at home. According to the EPA, if every American switched out one incandescent bulb to a CFL, it would prevent more than $600 million in annual energy costs and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions from 800,000 cars.
For more information on CFLs, please visit our Tips & Tools section of:
http://www.cityoffortwayne.org/energy
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Thank you very much for being a subscriber to our Green City email newsletter. We hope this has been helpful and informative to you.
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Sincerely,
Nicholas Harter
Program Manager
Energy & Environmental Services
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