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Green Works Orlando Green Updates

February 2009

February 20

In 2007, Mayor Buddy Dyer launched Green Works Orlando, the City's first comprehensive plan to protect our natural resources, encourage environmentally-friendly lifestyles and business practices and engage everyone who lives, works and visits Central Florida in the effort to "go green."

Under the Green Works Orlando plan, the City established five "pillars" that serve as the operational foundation. Below are highlights and updates of the progress under the "Energy Efficiencies and Green Buildings" pillar:

Initiative: Design all new City buildings to comply with LEED standards, with the goal of achieving LEED certification or appropriate green building standards for all municipal buildings.

Status: To date, we have five new fire stations built to LEED standards with the most recently completed (Station 7) reaching LEED-Silver certification. Currently, Fire Station 1 and the Events Center are under construction and have been designed to meet LEED standards.

Initiative: Create standards for green homes.

Status: The City of Orlando's Housing and Community Development Department constructed the City's first affordable home built to LEED standards. The home, located at 1025 West Anderson Street, was designed to meet LEED-Platinum certification.

Check back in the next few editions of City News for updates from the remaining Green Works pillars. More information about Green Works Orlando is available online: cityoforlando.net/greenworks.

Orlando Fire Station 7 First LEED-Silver Certified Station in Florida

Mayor Buddy Dyer, District 6 City Commissioner Samuel B. Ings and Fire Chief Jim Reynolds officially opened the State's first LEED-Silver Fire Station. Orlando's Fire Station 7, serving the Washington Shores and Lake Mann neighborhoods, is the City's fifth LEED certified fire station, the national standard for green buildings.

The 10,500 sq. ft state-of-the-art facility houses engine, tower, rescue and air trucks with Advance Life Support capabilities. Under the Green Works Orlando initiative, Fire Station 7 was constructed with an emphasis on added functionality, energy efficiency and water conservation.

For more information on the Orlando Fire Department, visit cityoforlando.net/fire.

February 13

“This Trash Travels” is Keep Orlando Beautiful’s (KOB) educational display used to teach citizens and volunteers how littering harms lakes, rivers and the ocean. “This Trash Travels” was displayed for volunteers at the Florida Coastal Cleanup event last October in Orlando. The event had record participation and KOB was awarded “The Most Creative Cleanup” by the Ocean Conservancy for the interactive education pieces.