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 Lori De La Cruz, ABC, Principal
The only environmental consultant in the U.S. who is also an Accredited Business Communicator.
Blue Marble Media's “Compost-ology” program earned the City of Euless the City Livability Award (for small cities) from the U.S. Conference of Mayors in 2006. Selected from a pool of 250 applicants, three former mayors chose the Compost-ology program based on leadership, creativity, innovation and its broad impact on the quality of life for residents.
The Ecological Compass™: A Guide to Sustainability is a workbook to guide families through environmental lifestyle practices that are not just good for the environment, but also beneficial for their families and their budgets.
Most recently Blue Marble Media developed the Green Teens sustainability education project. Each week throughout the 2008/2009 school year, students at Birdville High School learned about sustainability issues through hands-on experiments such as building a solar oven, a miniature watershed, a vermicomposting bin and making toxic-free cleaners. They also launched and maintained the school’s commingled recycling program and participated in a peer-to-peer education process through online tools, electronic media and campus-wide programs.
Blue Marble is also working with the City of Irving on the Interfaith Stewards project. Designed to enlighten, educate and change the habits of the faith-based community in 12 local churches, the year-long project focuses on energy and water conservation, landscaping, green housekeeping and other issues of environmental stewardship.
Qualifications:
Lori began developing award-winning environmental education programs as a Public Education and Recycling Coordinator for the City of Fort Worth and in Euless as the city's Communications/Marketing Manager.
She launched Blue Marble Media in 2004 as a consulting firm that develops and implements environmental and educational programs for local governments, non-profit organizations and businesses.
Her honors include awards for environmental education programs, photography and magazine, newsletter and web site design. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications/Public Relations from the University of Texas at Arlington’s Honors Program.
Lori is very involved in the professional community and is currently serving on the board of directors of the North Texas Corporate Recycling Association and accreditation chair for the International Association of Business Communicators Fort Worth Chapter. She is currently a member of the U.S. Green Building Council's North Texas Chapter. She has also served on the boards of the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers, the Urban Management Assistants of North Texas and the Tarrant County Corporate Recycling Council.
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Lori De La Cruz is the first professional in Texas to receive the Leadership in Sustainability certificate from The Natural Step.