Hyatt Key West Resort and Spa has launched Meet and Be Green, a new program that encourages guests and planners to make green choices for their meetings.
Posted: Friday, August 27, 2010 05:28 PM EDT
Green Solutions
Fausto's employee David Ciuffetelli didn't have any issue when his boss made the call to eliminate plastic grocery bags from the store's inventory.
Fausto’s Food Palace owner Jimmy Weekley has instituted two dynamic changes that he hopes help keep him in the green.
Posted: Wednesday, July 14, 2010 06:00 PM EDT
Creating the ideal compost for your Keys yard or garden isn’t that much different than cooking.
Posted: Wednesday, May 05, 2010 03:14 PM EDT
- Keys company packages solar and wind power
Benson Electric Technologies hopes the Green Energy Pod catches on with commercial customers, who can put it on their roofs, as Benson has done with its shared office space on Big Coppitt, or a clear spot on their property.
It's hard to miss the white and blue wind turbine spinning its way through the day atop a low-slung office on the bayside of Big Coppitt.
Posted - Wednesday, May 05, 2010 01:19 PM EDT
Donna Spencer, owner of Angelic Moon Holistic Day Spa, displays her green business certificate.
IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Angelic Moon Holistic Day Spa, Cudjoe KeyAngelic Moon Holistic Day Spa on Cudjoe Key is the 10th business in the Keys to be certified by nonprofit Green Living & Energy Education's Green Business Program.
Posted - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 01:17 PM EDT
LODGING
More hotels now eligible for Water CHAMPThe South Florida Water Management District is expanding its fledgling Water Conservation Hotel and Motel Program.
Posted - Wednesday, April 28, 2010 01:16 PM EDT
- Green living is second nature
Carol Ellis shows off the organic cherry tomatoes she grew in her yard.
Photo by Cammy Clark/Miami HeraldCarol Ellis climbed onto her biodiesel-powered backhoe and began churning up a compost pile of food scraps and yard clippings that will become soil for the organic garden in the yard of her home in a luxury gated community.
Posted - Monday, April 12, 2010 10:40 AM EDT
- FKEC launches Simple Solar
The Florida Keys Electric Cooperative's chief executive officer, Scott Newberry, at the utility's Marathon solar array. The cooperative's launched a program that it hopes will help raise money to explore other renewable energy options.
Posted - Wednesday, March 24, 2010 10:06 AM EDT
- Two more hotels join pilot water conservation program
The Days Inn Oceanfront Resort in Islamorada and Big Pine Fishing Lodge on Big Pine Key are the latest hotels to participate in the South Florida Water Management District's Water CHAMP program.
Posted - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:18 AM EDT
- Keys GLEE to help ‘green’ firms
Carole Stevens, executive director of the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce, Nicole Medina, Green Living & Energy Education board member, and Erica Garrick-Rodriguez, president of the chamber, pose Monday with the chamber's new green business certification.
With a few changes — different light bulbs, an extra degree on the thermostat and fewer ceiling fans running — the Lower Keys Chamber of Commerce is saving nearly $25 on its monthly electric bill.
Posted - Wednesday, October 28, 2009 11:18 AM EDT
