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Green Works Orlando Green Updates

August 2008

August 8
Wyland Learning Center Visits Orlando

On July 29th and 30th, the City of Orlando Streets and Stormwater Division and Keep Orlando Beautiful hosted the Wyland Clean Water Mobile Learning Center (MLC). The first of its kind, the MLC is a 1,000 square foot exhibit on wheels which features a movie theater, running river and rain demonstration with the mission of teaching children about water conservation and pollution prevention.

More than 300 City of Orlando summer campers and staff at the Engelwood Community Center and the Dr. James R. Smith Neighborhood Center visited the Wyland Foundation’s educational outreach vehicle, which has made stops throughout the United States. Participants also enjoyed a hands-on interaction with alligators and turtles, a Q&A session with Turtle Tim from the Orlando Science Center Natureworks exhibit and environmental stories performed by the Orange County Library system’s professional storyteller Bill Cordell. For more information about the Wyland Clean Water Challenge, please visit www.wylandoceanchallenge.org/.
 

August 1
Technology Management Recognized Nationally

Congratulations to the City Of Orlando Technology Management team for receiving well deserved national recognition. As part of Green Works Orlando, Technology Management has been purchasing energy-efficient computers and monitors as it has replaced older computers. American City and County recognized this progressive effort to reduce the City's energy consumption in their recent edition. http://americancityandcounty.com/technology/
hardware_software/saving_computing_power_cdwg

This is an example of how each City employee is enhancing the quality of life in the City by providing public services in a knowledgeable, responsive and financially responsible manner.

Keep Orlando Beautiful Gives Teenagers Opportunity to Serve Community

Recently, 13 teens and four supervisors from Orange and Osceola counties picked up litter from the streets and right-of-ways throughout the Parramore District. Keep Orlando Beautiful provided all the necessary supplies.

Not only are they giving back to the community through beautification efforts, but they are also learning about the local environment and how important it is to take care of it. When people litter our streets, they also pollute our lakes and streams.

Future projects will include installing No Dumping, Drains to Lake signs on storm drains, painting over graffiti, sprucing up downtown and beautifying our City parks. The projects are a partnership of Keep Orlando Beautiful with the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice, the Orlando Police Department and several other City departments. These organizations are working together to coordinate projects for juvenile teens in need of community service hours.