Environment & Sustainability

District-wide sustainable schools effort wraps its first year

An initiative to reduce energy use in Memphis’ schools and to foster the next generation of change-makers has just wrapped its pilot year.

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Memphis could be next city to roll out a bike sharing program

A Memphis advertising firm is heading up an initiative to garner public input and support about a bike sharing program.

Office of Sustainability seeks volunteers to plant rain gardens
Princeton Review lists UofM among most environmentally responsible colleges
Dana Dorsey is the Job Training Manager at Memphis Bioworks Foundation
Building a green jobs workforce

Last month the first graduation of Memphis Clean and Green Job Training celebrated more than 20 unemployed or under-employed Memphians who received training and certification through an EPA-funded program at Memphis Bioworks Foundation. The free program is creatively filling a workforce gap, converting the unemployed into a skilled green labor force.  

Architecture firm Hnedak Bobo plans a sustainable blueprint for a green footprint
At the press conference, held at United Housing, Inc. in Memphis,  remarks were made by Mayor Wharton, Mayor Luttrell, Congressman Steve Cohen, and Tim Bolding, Executive Director of United Housing.      “I’m especially proud of the innovation displa
Memphis gets four stars for sustainability

Memphis-Shelby County was recognized for national excellence as one of the nation’s most sustainable communities

Local moving company goes GREEN
Free job training for unemployed Memphis residents

EPA grant administered by Memphis Bioworks provides job training and placement assistance.  

Cryer (left) and STS assist with a local community clean-up effort
Challenge: A blight fight duel

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