By Mike Pramik, The Columbus Dispatch – Mar. 30, 2009 Ohio State University’s Cunz Hall reflects a mid-’60s building style known among architects as Brutalist. Many passers-by simply call the building’s design “brutal.” But a $24 million renovation plan will thrust the squat, wafflelike structure into the 21st century within two years, when Cunz Hall [...]
By John Funk, The Plain Dealer – Mar. 29, 2009 CLEVELAND — Talk about green energy and energy efficiency in Ohio heated up last week. And the reason has a lot to do with money. Government, business and the environmental movement have concluded there is plenty of “green” in green thinking — green jobs, green [...]
The Nourished Kitchen – Mar. 30, 2009 HR 875, also known as the Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, was introduced by Rosa Delauro – a democratic party member of the United States House of Representatives from Connecticut – in February of 2009. The title of HR 875, The Food Safety Modernization Act of 2009, [...]
By Richard Wilson & Jessica Heffner, The Oxford Press – Mar. 27, 2009 More than $4 million in federal block grant money has been allocated to local counties and cities to be used for energy efficiency projects. The funds are part of the more than $84 million set aside for Ohio as part of the [...]
By Kristina Smith Horn, Port Clinton News Herald – Mar. 27, 2009 PORT CLINTON – President Obama and the country’s leaders are looking to green jobs as a way to jump-start the economy while making homes and businesses more energy efficient. But what exactly are green jobs, and where can you get one? “Green jobs [...]
By Mike Pramik, The Columbus Dispatch – Mar. 23, 2009 Inside the new building that’s been added to Cardinal Health’s headquarters campus, there are red rooms, orange rooms, dark-aqua rooms, light-aqua rooms, and large, yellow floating credenzas… Cardinal’s also going for the green: The addition will be the first LEED-certified building in Dublin, said Dana [...]
The Suburbanite – Mar. 25, 2009 Cleveland, Ohio – Columbus, Cleveland, Newark, Ohio – Over twenty green energy businesses, elected leaders, and energy experts stood with Environment Ohio as they released a new report “Growing Ohio’s Green Energy Economy.” The report shows that Ohio is home to more than 440 businesses and research institutions in [...]
WHIOTV.com – Mar. 24, 2009 DAYTON, Ohio – A new study that has been released is showing a growing number of new jobs in Ohio are coming from green energy. Those are the companies that deal in wind, solar and other renewable energy sources. News Center 7’s Jim Otte said that the Miami Valley could [...]
By Marian Burros, The New York Times – Mar. 19, 2009 WASHINGTON — Michelle Obama will begin digging up a patch of the South Lawn on Friday to plant a vegetable garden, the first at the White House since Eleanor Roosevelt’s victory garden in World War II. There will be no beets — the president [...]