Green News
Syracuse Center of Excellence receives GreeningUSA Award
Earlier this year, on May 26, it was announced at the GreeningUSA Annual Meeting that the Syracuse Center of Excellence had been given a GreeningUSA "Greening Our Community" Award in the category of “Research and Development” for convening parties around issues such as green infrastructure, EPA grant opportunities, LEED building and brownfield remediation.
Because of conflicting schedules, GreeningUSA was finally able to present the award in person on July 28 at their Board meeting in the Center of Excellence. Accepting on behalf of the Syracuse Center of Excellence were Edward A. Bogucz and Mark Lichtenstein.
About GreeningUSA: Greening USA, Inc. is a membership based, not-for-profit, 501(c)3 corporation founded in 2004 in Syracuse, New York and governed by a 12 person all volunteer Board of Directors. Through education, research, partnering, and advocacy, it is advancing the vision of American communities that are much more environmentally, economically, and socially sustainable.
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How Green Is Your Building?
CNY Business Exchange asks Joel Delmonico, vice president / market manager for Clear Channel, about its green project The Amos Project:
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NYSTAR/Cornell JumpStart Program Accepting Applications
The JumpStart program of the Cornell Center for Materials Research (CCMR) is designed to help small NYS businesses solve concrete problems related to materials through collaborations with university research centers.
The program provides:
• A one-semester project utilizing university expertise
• An opportunity to build a relationship with university faculty and facilities
• Up to $5000 in matching NYSTAR funding
Applications for the fall semester are due June 25, 2010.
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Baltimore Woods Nature Center – Nature in the City
Together with The AMOS Project, Baltimore Woods Nature Center presented their award-winning Nature in the City program on Wednesday, June 2, 2010 at The AMOS Project headquarters to its corporate sponsors and board members. The program aligns corporate sponsors with a high impact program for some of neediest school children in Central New York. The presentation by Dave Eichorn was followed with a performance by Bill B. Brennan, the Natural Science Song and Dance Man.
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The AMOS Project Hosts Russian Environmentalist Delegation
On May 27, The AMOS Project hosted a delegation of Russian environmentalists, guests of the International Center of Syracuse. The group heard from Vice President/Market Manager Joel Delmonico from Clear Channel Communications about The AMOS Project and New York’s Central Upstate Region being home to a diverse collection of educational institutions, research centers, and businesses independently recognized for their successes in the development of green technology and methods of sustainability.
The headquarters itself is an example of environmentally-friendly urban renewal; a commercial space built to LEED Gold Certified standards, inside a 130-year old Erie Canal-era building.
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The delegation included Aleksandr Sergeyevich Kaynov, General Director, Biotop LLC; Mikhail Ponomarev, Deputy Head, Kursk City Administration; Dmitriy Ryzhikov, Research Associate, Severodvinsk City Museum of Local History; Denis Stark, Project Manager, Openway Service LLC and Chief, "Musora.Bolshe.Net" ("No More Garbage"); and Aleksey Volkonitskiy, Founder, Geo-Invest, LLC.
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Mary Walshok Founder of the CONNECT Program in San Diego
Joel Delmonico invited a small group of local leaders who understand the need to find a way to keep ideas that are sprouting up here (CNY) from going elsewhere to create economic development, attended a meeting and conference call with Mary Walshok of CONNECT on Thursday May 20th at The AMOS Project. Back in 1986, Mary Walshok co-founded the CONNECT organization "to accelerate the nascent innovation economy in San Diego"... 29 years later, San Diego is the wireless innovation capital of the world and one of the most important biotech clusters in the country. Mary helped form the culture of collaboration that is a vital component of creating an innovation economy, attracting investors that were eager to support early stage companies. She and her colleagues executed the strategy that resulted in the mobilization of regional assets to create economic prosperity around knowledge based companies that sprang from a productive university/industry interaction (a transformational potential that exists here).
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She sees many of the same dynamics at work here in our region that were in place in southern California before the establishment of CONNECT – exceptional regional assets that were not being effectively mobilized to create economic growth.
Attending the meeting were: Linda Clark and Brian Anderson of National Grid, William Taylor of William Taylor Architect, Linda Dickerson Hartsock and Emily Whedon of Clean Tech, Bill Fisher of Onondaga County, Bob Clary of USAGraduate.com, Carissa Mattews and Martin Walls of CoE, Elle Stasz of Center State CEO, Kay Inglin of Sound Reading, Lee McKnight of Wireless Grid, Matt Williams, Jake O’Connell and Sanjeev Kumar of ITC, Anastasia Urtz and Rachna Vas of Cornell Cooperative, Dave McClear of CNY Vision, Chuck Spuches of SUNY ESF, Kevin Quinn of Syracuse University, Lenore Sealy, Paula Chapman and Hana Ehrenreich of CNY Works, Theresa Auricchio of Nectar Partners, and Kenneth Roberts
