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Eye on Equity: Embracing Social Agendas at the Local Level |
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Tuesday, May 8 from 8:00 to 9:30 a.m. AIA Kansas City 1801 McGee Suite 100 Kansas City, MO 64108
Calling all USGBC members and enthusiasts: Don't miss out on this opportunity to collect 1 hour of GBCI credit in the rare Subcategory VII: Project Surrounding & Public Outreach.
Henderson Engineers is inviting members of the USGBC community to their final spring installment of HEI University – a program of presentations designed for the architecture community. This particular presentation highlights how a group of Kansas City-based USGBC members reached out to help New Orleans in its strife during the post-disaster period brought on by powerful hurricanes. Recently, their efforts have brought them closer to home with several program-based service learning events complete or in process, and dozens more slated for this year. Come and see what is happening in New Orleans, Kansas City and elsewhere around the country.
The program is free to all who register. Click here to register. Continental breakfast and coffee will be provided.
Program details: Since late 2007, former members of USGBC’s Emerging Professionals Committee endeavored to create a program-based service-learning event to help one historic neighborhood in New Orleans in the wake of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. Thousands of volunteers have pitched in to help. The positive results spawned national non-profit, Historic Green, whose mission is to assist and lead in the transformation and restoration of under-resourced communities through education and service with a focus on heritage conservation and sustainable design. Though committed to the Holy Cross Neighborhood of New Orleans Lower Ninth Ward until 2020, Historic Green now also operates in Kansas City and Minneapolis, with plans for Manhattan, N.Y., and Washington, D.C., this year. Born from USGBC, Historic Green partners with local chapters to offer service-learning opportunities and share resources that bring equitable and meaningful impacts at the neighborhood level for many distressed communities.
Presenters: Ryan Evans, PE, LEED® AP BD+C, MBA Jeremy Knoll, LEED® AP BD+C
Approved for: 1 AIA LU/HSW/SD and 1 GBCI CMP, Subcategory: VII. Project Surrounding & Public Outreach |
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Central Plains Chapter Receives National Chapter Impact Grant |
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The Chapter Board is pleased to announce that a second competitive grant from USGBC National has been awarded, just six months after receiving the first. The Chapter Impact Grant will build on the success of the developing partnership with Historic Green to provide our membership valuable service learning opportunities in which they can both help rebuild an existing home, and learn new and replicable sustainability/preservation techniques. This is a great way to meet new people, receive hands-on DIY education and help others.
While the Chapter Innovation Grant (received in September 2011) disperses the funds across several projects in the Kansas City and Wichita Branches, the Chapter Impact Grant will focus on a series of workshops on a single property, aiming to make the greatest difference possible in the building's performance, and providing a clear and measurable case study for green home renovation techniques. The Chapter is also supporting Historic Green's partnership in an awarded MARC grant to rehab several homes in the Roeland Park area in late summer 2012. |
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U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau releases guide to help women prepare for, find and succeed in ‘green’ jobs Clean energy economy offers women untapped employment opportunities |
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The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the availability of “Why Green is Your Color: A Woman’s Guide to a Sustainable Career,” which is designed to help women find and keep higher paying jobs in the clean energy economy.
The online publication, available at http://www.dol.gov/wb/Green_Jobs_Guide/GreenJobs%20Final_11.2011.pdf will help workers learn about a range of in-demand and emerging jobs, as well as job training opportunities and career development tools, in the clean energy economy. The guide also serves as a resource for workforce development professionals, training providers, educators, career counselors and women’s advocacy organizations.
“Many occupations in the clean energy economy remain virtually untapped by women,” said Sara Manzano-Díaz, director of the Women’s Bureau. “This guide is an invaluable resource that workforce professionals can use to help women transition into higher paying jobs that serve as a pathway into the middle class. It is also a tool to help fight job segregation.”
The guide is an outcome of nationwide roundtables at which leaders from the public and private sectors discussed opportunities for women in the clean energy economy. These conversations revealed that an overall lack of awareness and information about nontraditional jobs was a significant challenge to women hoping to succeed in this marketplace. Information about the roundtables is available at http://www.dol.gov/wb/media/green.htm.
Additional resources to help women succeed in nontraditional and emerging job sectors are available by contacting the Women’s Bureau at 202-693-6710 or visiting its Web pages at http://www.dol.gov/wb.
The Women’s Bureau, established by Congress in 1920, is the only federal agency designated to represent the needs of working women. Today, the bureau’s goal is to empower all working women to achieve economic security by preparing them for higher paying jobs, ensuring fair compensation, promoting workplace flexibility and helping homeless women veterans reintegrate into the workforce. |
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