BeGreen Tulsa

Green Team

On April 9, 2008, members of Mayor Kathy Taylor's newly appointed Green Team met for the first time to begin discussion of how the City of Tulsa and Tulsa residents can work together to help Tulsa become a Sustainable City.

Team discussion included brainstorming the top "green" tips that Tulsans can use to make small changes in lifestyle. These small changes can be very significant over the long term, providing energy cost savings as well as conserving energy and water. These tips will be regularly featured on the front page of the website.

In the coming year, the Team will focus their efforts on both Internal (within the City of Tulsa) and External (city, county and state) initiatives that will help to make not only Tulsa but all Oklahoma communities sustainable.  

Green Team Members:

 

Mayor Kathy Taylor
  Michael Patton, co-chair    Sean Griffin, co-chair  
  Mary Coley Cheryl Cohenour  
  Ken Hill Kendall Martin Barrow  
  Theron Warlick Shelby Navarro  
  Laureen Gilroy Ted Cundiff  
  Tom Wallace Jim East  
  Stacy Bayles Dru Meadows  
  Matt Albright Chuck Bell  
  Molly Jones Brett Fidler  

Initiatives

Greening the (918) Series

The Mayor's Green Team is helping to coordinate a series of 2009 seminars with Sustainable Tulsa. To learn more, click on the following link.

Greening the (918) Seminar Series

Go!Green Conference

Put September 12 on your calendar as a "green letter day!" The Go!Green Conference, hosted by the Mayor's Green Team and the Northern Oklahoma Chapter of the AIA, Committee on the Environment, is set for Sept. 12 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the University of Tulsa's Allen Chapman Activity Center, 440 South Gary, Tulsa.

The Forum will feature a full day of information-filled hour-long seminars led by regional experts. Each seminar is designed to help you learn how to take action to reduce your energy and water costs while benefitting Oklahoma's environment and the Earth. The forum will feature three information tracks, Green Building, Green City and Green Living, and address three focus topics, Energy, Recycling and Water. The concurrent exhibition will feature products and services that promote sustainability.

The Expo is free and open to the public.  Pre-registration is encouraged. For additional information and registration please visit the AIA Eastern Oklahoma's website www.aiaeok.org.