UM a partner in Miami’s EcoZone program

ith its environmentally friendly features, the University of Miami’s Clinical Research Building is a model for a series of eco-initiatives the City of Miami hopes to accomplish in the near future. Under Miami Mayor Manny Diaz’s “Green Initiative,” a special Miami Green Commission will develop strategies to restore and expand the city’s tree canopy, promote green construction, retrofit existing city buildings with green features, and incorporate 1,000 hybrid vehicles into the city’s fleet.

The City of Miami also is launching an EcoZone program as part of a public/private partnership designed to forge solutions to the city’s most critical environmental challenges. The program, in which the University of Miami is partnering, will fund important technologies and solutions to improve the local environment in the areas of air, water, energy, and green space—at no additional cost to taxpayers.