Green Task Force                          
 

Serving Alliance, Ohio
 
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WELCOME

Green Alliance is a non-profit 501 (c)(3) made up of  a coalition of people in the Greater Alliance Area who have come together to help Alliance plan a sustainable environment for all of us now and for our children in the decades ahead.

Our mission is to develop recommendations and strategies to fulfill the U. S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement with the City of Alliance, and to establish partnerships with various entities of government, education, business, industry and among citizens to educate and empower the greater Alliance community with the goal of developing as an environmentally, socially and economically sustainable community.

According to this statement, our mission takes on not only the consequences of global warming but also the wider challenge of building a “sustainable community.” A widely used and helpful definition of “sustainability” is the one developed by the Brundtland Commission: sustainable development is development that “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.

We welcome anyone in the Greater Alliance Community to join with us in our work. To the right is basic information about our organization and a list of easily accessible web sites for further information on building a sustainable future.

Check out the related information below
Rodman Public Library's list of sustainability resources
Greening Your City 
Transportation by the Numbers
Plastic Bags
Alliance Farmer's Market Newsletter
Green Jobs Facts
Handbook used by GREEN ALLIANCE committee
Complete Streets Act of 2008
Podcast of Daniel Goleman Author of "Ecological Intelligence" 

 


 


 

Next Meeting:

Unless otherwise indicated, meetings are typically held on the second Tuesday of the month, at 7:00 pm, at one of the Hoover Price Campus Center conference rooms.

Thursday evening, January 19th, at the East Room in the Hoover Price Campus Center at the Univ. of Mount Union:
"Aquaponics"
  Lance Schmidt
is the director of the NeoHaus institute (www.TheNeoHaus.com)  and is currently designing and building Aquaponic systems in the Akron Canton area to grow plants all year round with aquaponics. Aquaponics is like hydroponics except that fish is grown and then the fish water is pumped into gravel "grow beds" to supply nutrients and water for the plants. The plants grow faster and bigger in this type of system. The great part is it is totally organic and is totally sustainable. 

February  Panel discussion of "Fracking"

March Historic Preservation in Alliance - Martha McClaugherty

April PACE programs and  community alternative energy possibilities in Alliance

May Food preservation

June TBA

July TBA

August TBA

September TBA

October TBA

November TBA

December TBA

2011 Sustainable Alliance Fest information

To volunteer, get on our email list, or support Green Alliance with a donation, please click here:

Volunteer / Email list / Donations


Officers
Co-Chairs
   John Bienz and Tiffany Gravlee
Secretary
   Ginny Daniel
Treasurer
   Steve Kramer


Subcommittees
Greening Land
Greening Structure/Infrastructure
Transportation Planning
Education and Outreach

ICLEI Small Communities Toolkit:
This Toolkit provides climate protection guidance tailored to communities with 25,000 people or less, addressing their unique limitations and opportunities. The toolkit is packed with resources, case studies, and insight to help you succeed.

Additional Information:
U.S. Mayors’ Climate Protection Agreement
   http://www.usmayors.org/climateprotection/

Alliance Review articles
on developing a sustainable Alliance by
Tiffany Gravlee: "Green Scene"