Nester
Joined: 15 Mar 2005
Posts: 732
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I'm an old hippy tree-snugger but I don't trust these knaves any further than I can toss a Cyprus tree.
Blow up your TV,
move to the country...
well not there...nor there...
a green corridor, you see.
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Global Green in New Orleans
Note US President:
http://www.globalgreen.org/about/staff_board.html
Petersen is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Pacific Council on International Policy. He serves on the advisory board of the Environmental Media Association, the board of the Institute for Market Transformation to Sustainability, and the City of Santa Monica Environmental Task Force. He holds his Master's degree in Public Administration from the University of Southern California and BA in Political Science from California State University at Chico.
Agenda
http://www.globalgreen.org/programs/katrina.htm
January, 2006 – Global Green to open its Green Building Resource Center modeled on the successful center that Global Green operates in Santa Monica (www.globalgreen.org/gbrc)
December 12th – Global Green is working with USGBC to create a one-stop green building resource webtool for New Orleans residents.
December 1st – Global Green’s Senior Program Associate Ted Walker attends Habitat for Humanity’s Construction Symposium in Atlanta as part of its Operation Home Delivery efforts.
November 14th – Global Green featured its New Orleans efforts at its annual Designing a Sustainable and Secure World Awards where acclaimed musician Dr. John also performed. Global Green raised more than $15,000 towards its Katrina Relief efforts that evening.
November 14th – Global Green invited a contingent of New Orleans environmentalists, architects, builders and entrepreneurs to discuss its green building Katrina Relief efforts in NYC.
November 1 th – Global Green receives USGBC Advoc acy Award for more than 10 years of work to significantly advance green building in affordable housing and public buildings that has leveraged well over $20 billion dollars in green construction.
November 9th–11th – Global Green helps to organize design charettes at Green Build Conference in Atl anta to explore ways to rebuild homes, schools and buildings with green design principles.
October 31st – Global Green scouts potential locations for Green Building Resource Center.
October 30th – Global Green continues touring and filming New Orleans and visits 50,000 sq. ft. Art Egg building that may become a sustain able hub for New Orleans.
October 29th – Global Green returns to New Orleans to participate in the second Alliance for Energy Meeting and oversees filming of interviews for video on its Katrina Relief efforts.
October 25th & 26th – Global Green President Matt Petersen invited to present its Katrina Relief Initiative at the Green Funders annual meeting in Cleveland, Ohio.
October 24th – Matt Petersen tours New Orleans and visits two schools ( Priestly High School and Wooden Elementary) that could be model green building projects. Without operating schools, few families can return to New Orleans.
October 17th – Global Green hires Jane #####, a New Orleans based attorney and former Planning Commissioner, to be its on-the-ground coordinator.
October 9th – Global Green's Monica Gilchrist tours New Orleans with locally renowned architect John Willi ams and meets with local activist groups interested in rebuilding green. While in the 9 th Ward, Gilchrist also observed one of the first Jazz Funerals held after the hurricane.
October 8th – Matt Petersen and Monica Gilchrist attend Alliance for Energy meeting in Baton Rouge with more than 100 attendees. Petersen presents Global Green’s vision for rebuilding healthy homes and neighborhoods and begins creating substantial relationships with Louisiana based organizations. (For more information visit www.all4energy.org)
October 7th - Global Green USA goes to Shreveport for first American Pl anning Association meeting of the Louisiana Chapter to build alliances with local groups and individuals and learn from international representatives who have rebuilt cities after natural di asters. (For more information visit www.louisiana-apa.org)
September 26 th –Global Green invited to particip ate in weekly U.S. Dep artment of Energy call to coordinate activities and share inform ation with USGBC, HUD, FEMA, NAHB, Habitat for Humanity, Federation of American Scientists, Alliance for Affordable Energy, Enterprise Foundation, LSU and Tex as A&M.
September 17 th – Global Green President Matt Petersen recruits honorary steering committee for “Healthy Homes, Smart Neighborhoods Response Team” including Leonardo DiCaprio, General Wesley Clark, Julian Bond and Lee Hamilton.
September 6th – Glob al Green USA begins weekly dialogues with Healthy Building Network, Enterprise Foundation, Habitat for Humanity and National Council of Churches to explore ways to rebuild New Orleans and the Gulf region with green building principles that Global Green has pioneered for afford able housing and schools for more than a decade
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