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Issue 6 | November 2019

Good and Green News & Updates

Our monthly newsletter is the source for Good and Green updates, activities, events, and opportunities in the City of Sunrise, Florida. We also want to recognize outstanding community leaders and organizations. We would love to highlight your sustainability efforts and accomplishments (e.g. neighborhood cleanup, water conservation tip, butterfly garden, etc.) - please contact us at [email protected] to share your stories!

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Frank Verardi, Utility Field Supervisor, fills up his reusable bottle at one of the new water refill stations installed at the

Utilities Administrative Center. #PASSUPPLASTICS

Join us at the Grand Opening of Sunrise Sportsplex on December 11 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. to learn about the butterfly garden, owl burrows, and wetlands onsite!

Employees from the Timberland store at Sawgrass Mills volunteered their Saturday morning to help weed the

butterfly garden at the Sunrise Dan Pearl Library.

Resilience Roundtable

The City of Sunrise participated in the Broward Leaders Resilience Roundtable in October. There was broad community representation and engagement, including representation of 24 municipalities, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, and Broward business leadership.

The Roundtable serves as an annual forum for information sharing and coordinated advancement of our collective resilience efforts, with local leaders. Broward Resilience Story Map

Mayor Ryan speaking at the Broward Leaders Roundtable

Sustainability Advisory Board and Sunrise Girl Scouts group photo

PLEDGE TO PASS UP PLASTICS!

Pass Up Plastics City of Sunrise Florida

Join the City of Sunrise, Sunrise Sustainability Advisory Board, and the Girl Scouts - and you too can be an Ocean Guardian!

Sunrise Events are about to get Greener, support the effort by taking the pledge to Pass Up Plastics.

In recognition of #NoStrawNovember the Sunrise Sustainability Advisory Board invited local Girl Scouts to earn their Jr Ocean Guardians badge by learning about the problems with single-use plastics, what the City is doing to reduce plastics at events, and helping to launch the Pass Up Plastics Sunrise Pledge Campaign.

Take the Pledge!

We know the climate crisis is not going away. And it will take many small and big decisions to deal with the impacts of climate change. The Sunrise Good and Green Events Policy ( passed on October 22 ) is one of the “smaller” decisions that moves us in the right direction, and is supported by the Sunrise Sustainability Action Plan.

Many communities, mainly coastal, are regulating plastics in some capacity. Sunrise does not have a beach but we cannot deny the interconnection of our region’s resources, infrastructure, and community health and well-being.

Development of the Good and Green Events Policy was a collaborative effort with the Sustainability Advisory Board, and City Departments from Leisure Services to Police, Fire, and Utilities. The Sunrise Sustainability Intern Bridget Huston, a graduate student at Florida Atlantic University, was also key to the development of the policy and the pledge campaign.

Today, we are launching the Pass Up Plastics Sunrise Pledge Campaign to engage and educate residents, visitors, and businesses to accompany the roll out of the Good and Green Events Policy which goes into effect January 1, 2020. We hope you will join us in the effort to reduce plastic pollution!