The Toledo-Lucas County Sustainability Commission activities:
- Worked with Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful and Lucas County Facilities to start a recycling program at Prosecutor's Office (May 2010)
- Completed draft baseline recycling assessment of all County managed facilities (May 2010)
- Completed a map of all LEED certified buildings in the Toledo area with assistance from the NWO USGBC and local architecture firms (April 2010)
- Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful, Lucas County Solid Waste District, and Facilities started recycling program at the Office of Aging (March 2010)
- Worked with Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful, Lucas County Solid Waste District, and Facilities to start recycling program at the Juvenile Justice Center (January 2010)
- Coordinated Summer Edition of Living Green, Saving Green - working with local businesses and organizations(August 2009)
- Submitted a grant proposal to the Ohio Environmental Education Fund focusing on energy efficiency and green building education (July 2009)
- Worked with the Earth Avengers and Keep Toledo/Lucas County Beautiful to start a building wide recycling program at Job and Family Services (May/June 2009)
- Submitted three pre-application proposals to the Energy Efficiency Community Block Program (May 2009)
- Assisted in coordinating the Winter Edition of Living Green, Saving Green (February 2009)
- Built the Lucas County Green website (November 2008 - March 2009)
Here are some activites that we have ongoing:
- Working with the University of Toledo Engineering Department to perform energy/waste audits of County buildings
- Developing baseline assessments of "where we are now"
- Living Green, Saving Green presentations to interested area groups
- Answering questions through the GreenLine and website
