Category: Environment

Finding Sustainability: Cleveland (part 1)—from a Forest to a Fire to a Flight – by Richey Piiparinen (2012)

Finding Sustainability: Cleveland (part 1)—from a Forest to a Fire to a Flight
By Richey Piiparinen for Teaching Cleveland (2012)
A pdf version is here

Richey Piiparinen passed away in early 2025. This bio is from his obit:
Richey was an accomplished Author, writer and urban affairs researcher. He worked at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University as the Director of Center of Population Dynamics., part of the Levine College of Urban Affairs. Richey recently published a book titles “Octopus Hunting” a book of essays linking the author’s fight for life and a city’s fight for life.

Richey appeared in “The Daily Beast, The Plain Dealer and Huffington Post. His research has been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, NPR’s Morning Edition to name a few.

Sustainability in Northeast Ohio (part 2) – by Richey Piiparinen (2016)

 


Sustainability in Northeast Ohio (part 2)
Better  than  it  was, not  where  it  needs  to be
by Richey Piiparinen (2016)
for Teaching Cleveland
The link is here

Richey Piiparinen passed away in early 2025. This bio is from his obit:
Richey was an accomplished Author, writer and urban affairs researcher. He worked at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland State University as the Director of Center of Population Dynamics., part of the Levine College of Urban Affairs. Richey recently published a book titles “Octopus Hunting” a book of essays linking the author’s fight for life and a city’s fight for life.

Richey appeared in “The Daily Beast, The Plain Dealer and Huffington Post. His research has been highlighted by the Wall Street Journal, CBS Evening News, NPR’s Morning Edition to name a few.

The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it’s making a comeback, NPR Oct 12, 2024

Firefighters stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, engulfs docks in Cleveland on Nov. 1, 1952.
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The Cuyahoga River was so polluted, it used to catch fire. Now it’s making a comeback

by Scott Neuman, NPR October 12, 2024
https://www.ideastream.org/2024-10-12/the-cuyahoga-river-was-so-polluted-it-used-to-catch-fire-now-its-making-a-comeback

See the Cuyahoga River, Clean Water Act Video that won a St. Ignatius senior 2nd prize in C-SPAN competition

by Peter Krouse
The 1972 Clean Water Act was created to stop river fires, but can it help today? In 1969 the Cuyahoga River in Cleveland, Ohio burst into flames after being filled with toxic oil and waste for decades. Since, the EPA has led a charge to try to change that. Follow me as I dive into the Nixon-era law that changed how we view water quality and try to answer the ultimate question, did it work? And if it did, what can we learn from it for the problems we face today like climate change?

Mayor Kessler (Bexley OH), Alan R. Rosenfeld LWV-Ohio, Sunny Simon/Mike Foley Testimony, Senate Bill 222, 12/3/19

Mayor Kessler (Bexley OH) Testimony, Senate Bill 222, 12/3/19
Mayor Ben Kessler, City of Bexley
testimony on 12/3/19 S.B. 222 (3rd Hearing)
Ohio Senate version of “banning the ban” re: single use bags
“Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs” Committee

The link is here
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League of Women Voters-Ohio Testimony
SB222 – Prohibit Tax Plastic Bag
Alan R. Rosenfield – Energy Specialist
Peggy Ann Berry – Environment Specialist
Senate Local Government, Public Safety and Veterans Affairs Committee December 3, 2019
The link is here

Testimony from Cuyahoga County Councilwoman Sunny Simon and Cuyahoga County Sustainability Director Mike Foley
The link is here

All of the testimony is here under December 3, 2019

“Plastics and Ohio” forum August 29, 2019 Rocky River Library

“Plastics and Ohio” forum
Plastic pollution, is it the next burning river?
What can residents do?
August 29, 2019 at 7pm

the flyer is here
the summary is here
the video is here

Moderator: Jocelyn Travis, Sierra Club Ohio

w/panelists:
•Cheryl Johncox, Sierra Club Ohio,

•Sunny Simon, District 11 Cuyahoga County Council,

•Sarah Damron, Surfrider Foundation,

•Sarah Mathews, Rumpke Waste,

•Cristie Snyder, Cuyahoga County Solid Waste District

Rocky River Public Library, 1600 Hampton Rd. Rocky River OH 44116

Cosponsored by LWV Greater Cleveland, the Sierra Club, Surfrider Foundation, the Bay Green Team, Rocky River Green Team and Rocky River Public Library

Re-visiting Mayor Stokes’ Cuyahoga River Pollution Tour, 50 Years Later WCPN 6/18/19

Re-visiting Mayor Stokes’ Cuyahoga River Pollution Tour, 50 Years Later
WCPN 6/18/19 by Elizabeth Miller
On June 23, 1969, a day after the fire on the Cuyahoga River, Mayor Carl Stokes took reporters on a four-stop pollution tour. It would turn out to be the last fire on the river. We retraced the tour 50 years later.
by Elizabeth Miller 90.3 WCPN ideastream
The link is here
 
https://www.ideastream.org/news/re-visiting-mayor-stokes-cuyahoga-river-pollution-tour-50-years-later

Waste Water and the West Side…what are the issues? a forum on June 5, 2019

The flyer is here

Wednesday, June 5, 2019 6:30 – 8:00pm
Waste Water and the West Side…what are the issues?
Lakewood Public Library-Main
15425 Detroit Avenue Lakewood 44107

Panelists
Frank Greenland, Dir. Of Watershed Prog., NE Ohio Reg. Sewer District

Janine Rybka, Director, Cuyahoga Soil and Water Conservation District

Mike Summers, Mayor, City of Lakewood

Moderated by Prof. Howard E. Katz, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law

Cosponsored by CWRU Siegal Lifelong Learning and the LWV Lakewood, Bay Village, Fairview Park, North Olmsted,
Rocky River & Westlake Chapters. Corporate Sponsor: First Interstate

A Cuyahoga River timeline, from Moses Cleaveland to Blazing Paddles By Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com June 19, 2019

CLEVELAND, Ohio – The history of the Cuyahoga River is much more than a fire.
The 100 miles of curves has always mixed city and nature, recreation and industry.
In honor of the 50th anniversary of the fire that caught the nation’s attention, learn more about what shaped the Cuyahoga River and how the river shapes us.
By Emily Bamforth, cleveland.com June 19, 2019
 
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