Sustainability

Northeast Ohio companies like Eaton, Cleveland Cliffs, J.M. Smucker and Lubrizol integrate sustainability into core business strategies and operations with established environmental impact goals and reduced waste, water and energy usage. Some other local sustainable businesses and organizations include:

• Rid-All Green Partnership transformed a former illegal dumping site in Cleveland's Kinsman neighborhood into a 15-acre agriculture campus to grow nutritious food for local residents and train others on environmental sustainability, urban farming, and wellness.

• Rust Belt Riders is a small, worker-owned cooperative that works with other local organizations to compost all kinds of food waste, redirecting loads of rubbish from landfills to farms.

• Great Lakes Brewery for decades has recycled promotional materials for heating and repurposing vegetable oil to create biodiesel fuel for delivery trucks, composted its restaurant leftovers to support local farming, and sent excess barley to local farmers and bakers.

Cleveland champions many sustainability efforts, but one of the most impactful has been its investment in its parks and miles upon miles of trails for biking and hiking.

The city installed more than 70 miles of bike infrastructure with further initiatives to grow bike and scooter share programs and expanded parking locations in Cleveland, East Cleveland, Cleveland Hts., South Euclid and University Heights.

Traveling north to south, The Ohio & Erie Canalway Towpath Trail (or simply "The Towpath") takes visitors on an 101-mile journey from Downtown Cleveland through park systems in the counties of Cuyahoga, Summit, Stark and Tuscarawas.

Add to that the excellent stewardship of the Cleveland Metroparks – an "emerald necklace" encompassing 23,000 acres and 300 miles of hiking trails – and Cuyahoga Valley National Park, it's clear The Land knows a thing or two about protecting its natural resources.