GreenCityBlueLake is the magical phrase that captured people's imaginations about the possibilities of creating green cities on a blue lake in Northeast Ohio. It is a Bryght Light site that has become an online community workspace where people tell their sustainability stories and learn from each other.
The site uses Drupal out of the box community features like blogs, forums, quotes, comments, book pages, events calendar, user profiles, and photo galleries to create, and nurture this discourse (in conjunction with a human website editor of course!).
EcoCity Cleveland, the non profit behind the site has been working on these issues since 1992.
David Beach, executive director of EcoCity, states that the best thing about the site is: "The way we are providing an open and interactive, yet structured and well organized, place for thinking strategically about the sustainability of Northeast Ohio -- all with a clean design."
EcoCity Cleveland recently announced its merger with the world renowned Cleveland Museum of Natural History, where it will create a new Center for Regional Sustainability and continue to develop the GreenCityBlueLake site. Fantastic news! We look forward to the continued evolution of the online community, the site and the dialogue as part of the museum!