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On Thursday, May 30, 2019, Dream in Green hosted its 13th Annual Awards Ceremony. The evening brought together students, teachers, administrators, environmental activists and green businesses to celebrate another successful year of the Green Schools Challenge.   Throughout the evening Dream in Green honored individuals and schools that excelled in the 2018-19 school year by implementing green practices and adopting the steps to become environmental stewards. Thank you to everyone who attended and showed their support. A special thank you to our sponsors and congratulations [...]

Building Efficiency 305: Buildings play an important role in Miami-Dade County’s resilience efforts. For this reason, the County has joined a national initiative to cut waste in large buildings and make American cities healthier and more prosperous through energy and water efficiency. The Miami-Dade County Office of Resilience has teamed up with Miami-Dade County’s Water and Sewer Department to launch Building Efficiency 305 (BE305), a locally tailored plan to significantly increase the energy and water efficiency of our existing large private and public buildings. The [...]

Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) is committed to reducing energy consumption in our buildings as both responsibility to tax payers and sustainability. Our approach to sustainability is constantly improving working closely with our consultants and industry available products to shape and implement energy and resource efficiency in our buildings. One of our foci is lighting energy efficiency which is the second largest energy consumption in schools, approximately 15% of the total energy use. As one of our initiatives started during our current General Obligation [...]

Right now, recycling is often presented in a confusing and inconsistent way. The millions of different looking recycling bins and labels throughout society make recycling seem disheveled and inefficient and this leaves the public feeling apathetic and skeptical about the effectiveness of recycling programs. Seven years ago, founder Mitch Hedlund started the 501(c)3 non-profit, Recycle Across America and introduced the society-wide standardized labels for recycling bins and celebrity led Let’s recycle right!® PSA campaign to combat the issue of confusion at the bin and help [...]

Watch on YouTube. Does this year's devastating hurricane season make you wonder what is behind all these powerful storms? At Dream in Green, we believe in the power of science and education. In our new 'Ask a Scientist' series, we sat down with atmospheric scientist at University of Miami's Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, Dr. Amy Clement, to learn about what the scientific community does and doesn't know about the links between hurricanes and climate change. The links between climate change and hurricanes [...]

Susan Windmiller - President, League of Women Voters Miami-Dade Florida is ranked 3rd in the country for rooftop solar potential, but all the way down at 12th for cumulative solar capacity installed. In Unincorporated Miami-Dade County, where over 1.3 million people reside, only 122 residential permits were issued for solar installations since 2014. We can debate the reasons for lack of solar in the sunshine state for days, if not weeks. But one reason that’s not debatable is the cost of solar. For [...]

U.S. journalists continue to struggle to tell stories of rising seas, leaving the public and policymakers either in the dark about environmental change or uninformed about the challenges and potential solutions. While local newspapers, for instance, have increased their coverage – according to a 2016 report from George Mason University on media coverage of sea level rise and climate change – coverage from national news outlets, particularly broadcast and cable, has been more uneven, with climate news largely ignored[1]. We also know that tenets of [...]