Ecological Footprint
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Ecological Footprint is the measurement of our communities demand on nature. Currently, people use more of the earth’s resources annually that the earth can regenerate. If everyone on Earth lived like the average American, we would need at least three planets to live sustainably.
Greening the (918) Ecological Footprint goal
The City of Tulsa and Tulsa city residents work together to reduce their ecological footprint.
Green Tips
Greening your Footprint:
- Calculate your footprint. Go to: www.footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/page/footprint_basics_overview/
- Pick an activity to reduce your footprint that is easy for you to do and fun!
- Weatherize your home
- Reduce the number of trips you take in a car or airplane
Panelist
Brett Fiddler
Brett Joined the City of Tulsa Mayor's Office in December of 2008 as the Mayor's Special Advisor for Sustainability. This position was created to develop a plan and action strategies for an Office of Sustainability within the City of Tulsa to focus on energy use reduction, resource conservation and lessening the ecological impacts of City process while maintaining or improving services. The goal is to open the Office of Sustainability this summer to help Tulsa become the greenest city in the region. Brett is a native Tulsan and received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Oklahoma State University. Prior to his appointment in the Mayor's office, Brett served as Director of Conservation for the Tulsa Zoo.
Mary Coley
Mary Coley is a lifelong nature lover. She has worked as a water education specialist, an outreach director for the Oklahoma chapter of a conservation organization, an environmental education specialist at Oklahoma State University, a writer, a naturalist and a park planner, all in her home state of Oklahoma. Coley has taught environmental education workshops and environmental studies classes for many years throughout Oklahoma. Currently, she is a Communications Officer for the City of Tulsa, and specializes in environmental topics. In addition to several non-fiction educational publications, Coley is a published fiction writer. Her most recent book, Environmentalism: How You Can Make a Difference was published in January by Capstone Press and will soon be available through the City-County Library system.
Haden Snow
Environmental, Safety, Health and Facilities
AEP - Regional Manager - Workplace Services
AEP - PSO – East; AEP – SWEPCO; AEP - Dallas
Terrell Hoagland
Terrell Hoagland is a graduate of OSU and works in construction management for Flintco, Inc. He is a LEED AP, member of the Oklahoma Chapter of the USGBC and is Green Advantage Certified. He has worked on many local educational projects for OU-Tulsa and the Tulsa Technology Center. He is currently working on the Tulsa Technology Center's new Broken Arrow Expansion and heading up Flintco's new internal sustainability program.
Martha or Theron
Robert Schaefer
Robert Schaefer AIA, LEED® AP Principal, Selser Schaefer Architects As a principal of Selser Schaefer Architects, Robert Schaefer directs the firm’s programming, masterplanning, and design efforts. Selser Schaefer Architects has been involved in projects that range
from simply incorporating sustainable elements to projects that will have LEED® Gold certification. We currently have three projects being evaluated by the USGBC for LEED® Certification. Selser Schaefer
Architects has a sixteen‐year history of design projects that have a positive impact on the communities they serve.
Theron Warlick
Theron Warlick is a city planner with the City of Tulsa Planning Department. A planner for 16 years, Warlick has assisted communities of all sorts with short and long-term growth issues. Since joining the Tulsa team in 2000, Warlick has concentrated on community-driven, infill development plans in older urban neighborhoods including the Pearl District (this neighborhood), Southwest Tulsa, and Crutchfield and Planning District 25 in North Tulsa. Theron is a lead planner for PLANITULSA, the first major update of the City's Comprehensive Growth Plan in 30 years. Theron is a member of Mayor Taylor's Green Team, and a graduate of Nathan Hale High School, the University of Cincinnati School of Planning, and the OU-Tulsa
Greening the (918) Ecological Footprint Booth Participation
Pohlenz Cucine Moderne
Home Builders Association of Greater Tulsa
Ihloff Salon and Day Spa
Oklahoma Green Fest
Oklahoma Timber Frames LLC
PlaniTulsa
Eco-Baby
PSO (Public Service Company of Oklahoma)
Tulsa University
ONG (Oklahoma Natural Gas)
The M.e.t (The Metropolitan Environmental Trust)
Sierra Club
Up with Trees
Tulsa Partners and the Millennium Center Project
Strategy Session Graphically Facilitated Notes
Greening the (918) Ecological Footprint Strategy Session Linear Notes
Action
Each Greening the (918) seminar will have action steps that the community will collectively develop each evening. Additionally each seminar will have a Strategy Team that will assist in putting the actions into motion for the Tulsa Area. Please Ecological Foot Print Strategy Session Graphically Facilitated Notes and Ecological Footprint Strategy Session Linear Notes for more information on the results of the Ecological Footprint seminar.
Action due to the Greening the (918) Ecological Footprint Seminar:
- Ecological Footprint Strategy Team