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Environment
Five Questions Turning a county ‘green’
The Miami Herald, July 15, 2007
He had help, but there’s no disputing that Miami-Dade Clerk of Courts Harvey Ruvin
was the driving force behind the county’s efforts to reduce greenhouse gases. He
participated in Gov. Crist’s summit on global climate change last week in Miami.
Q. When did the county begin to reduce greenhouse gases?
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Miami-Dade’s motto: Think globally, act locally County a world leader in cutting
greenhouse gas production
Sun-Sentinel, December 9, 1997
Even before Harvey Ruvin left South Florida for the climate treaty talks in Kyoto,
Japan, he realized that divisions among the more than150 countries represented there
might prove intractable.
But Ruvin, the clerk of the courts in Miami-Dade County, has a backup plan.
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Miami-Dade a leader in cleaning
up air
The Miami Herald, November 24, 1997
Don’t blame Miami-Dade County if your children’s grandchildren are up to their knees
in sea water here in the late 21st Century. Miami-Dade ranks ninth in the
world and second in the nation among local governments trying to reduce pollution
responsible for heating up the world’s climate and raising sea levels, according
to the United Nations’ International Council for Local Environment Initiatives.
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CLEAN WORLD STARTS WITH CITIES, COMMISSIONER
SAYS AT THE U.N.
The Miami Herald, March 26, 1992
Dade County Commissioner Harvey Ruvin told a United Nations conference Wednesday
that solving the world’s environmental problems begins at home – in cities and towns.
Ruvin was in New York to address a conference planning the first-ever environmental
sumit in Rio de Janeiro this June. The U.N. sponsored summit, expected to draw heads
of state from around the world, is supposed to produce a global plan to attack environmental
problems. [Read More]
RUVIN REPRESENTS COUNTIES AT U.N.
County News, September 10, 1990
Former NACo president Harvey Ruvin, commissioner, Dade County, Fla., represented
America’s 3,000 counties at the United Nations during the first World Congress of
Local Governments for a Sustainable Future Sept. 5-8. Local governments leaders
from more than 30 nations ... [Read More]
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