More than 50 professionals, including business entrepreneurs, land-use planners, engineers, architects, hoteliers, civil engineers, solid-waste staff and public health & government officials, attended the “Professionals Turning Green Symposium” on June 11-12 at Lakeside Inn in Mount Dora.

The two days of presentations featured more than 20 presenters covering a variety of topics including green energy, green enterprise, green government, green construction, green lodging, conserving water resources and greening solid waste.

Several keynote speakers highlighted the presentations. During Thursday’s luncheon, Daniel Parker, Assistant Division Director of Environmental Health, in the Florida Department of Health, spoke about how the decisions land-use planners make affect the health and well being of the community. During a banquet Thursday evening, Linda Chapin, Director of the Metropolitan Center for Regional Studies at the University of Central Florida, made her final public appearance before retiring from her post at the university. The former Orange County mayor talked about the pitfalls and successes during her tenure.

The symposium was concluded on Friday afternoon with a special author’s luncheon featuring Cynthia Barnett, a reporter and editor at newspapers and magazines for 20 years. Her first book, Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S., published in 2007, won the Gold medal for best nonfiction in the Florida Book Awards.

Professionals Turning Green Symposium

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Jerry Ross explains to the symposium audience that many free business services are available at the Disney Entrepreneurial Center.

 

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Many of the presenters featured PowerPoint presentations, including

Green Energy

• Alternative Fuel Systems (1.15 MB)
  Dr. Dwayne Dundore, Raptor Fabrication and Equipment
  
  
• Renewable Power – Energy from Waste (1.37 MB)
  Teri Staniec, Covanta Lake Energy from Waste facility

Green Enterprise

• First Green Bank (364 KB)
  Ken LaRoe, First Green Bank
  
  
• Modern Energy-from-Waste Facilities: Part of Our Sustainable Future (1.46 MB)
  Joe Treshler, Covanta Energy

Luncheon Keynote speaker

• Supporting a Healthy, Sustainable Florida (14.9 MB)
  Daniel Parker, Florida Department of Health

Green Government

• Greening Government (1.11 MB)
  Lake County Commissioner Elaine Renick
  
  
• Green Works Orlando : Mayor Dyer's Green Initiative (.99 MB)
  Christian Oleck, City of Orlando

Green Design & Construction

• Umatilla Health Clinic LEED Project Case Study (4.00 MB)
  (Federal Stimulus Green Building Incentives Overview)
  Darren Frost, R.D. Michaels
  Joanna Switzer, Green Building Services
  Jordanna Rubin, Shaw Group

Greening Municipal Solid Waste

• The "Original" Green (6.00 MB)
  Daryl Smith, Lake County Department of Environmental Utilities
  
  
• Green Technologies for Managing MSW (66 KB)
  Emilio Bruna, Lake County Department of Environmental Utilities
  
  
• Greening Garbage (198 KB)
  Susie Metcalfe, Citrus County Solid Waste Management Division