Former Ohio Audubon chief to lead MORPC green center - Business First of Columbus:

Former Ohio Audubon chief to lead MORPC green center - Business First of Columbus:

The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission named a new director for its Center for Energy and the Environment .
Jerry Tinianow was chosen to head the center, a cross-disciplinary agency that seeks to address the region’s energy and environmental challenges and to adopt environmentally friendly policies.
Tinianow, a one-time executive director of the National Audubon Society’s Ohio chapter, will run the commission’s sustainable growth, local food, greenways, energy efficiency and air quality programs. Tinianow also was a member of Mayor Michael Coleman’s Green Team and chaired the Sierra Club’s national Clean Air Campaign Steering Committee. With the Audubon Society, he oversaw development of the Grange Insurance Audubon Center in the Scioto Audubon Metro Park on Whittier Peninsula.
Tinianow has been a Columbus resident for nearly 20 years and lives in Clintonville.
MORPC is a voluntary association of 47 local governments and provides comprehensive planning and programming in the areas of transportation, economic development, land use, energy conservation, environment, and housing.