Gateways to the Green Economy: Community College Leaders Meet in Pasadena

PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- From October 11-13, 2010, leaders from community college campuses around the state will gather at the Pasadena Convention Center for the 2010 Green California Community Colleges Summit to share innovations in policy, practice and technology that can accelerate programs to green their facilities and curricula.

The front line for training – and re-training – for workers hoping to find a place in the "green economy," these colleges are critical to the state's future. Despite funding challenges, the system is growing; demands for green job-related curricula, and more seats in new and renovated high performance buildings, are increasing exponentially.

The keynote speaker on October 12 will be Doug Henton, chairman and chief executive officer of Collaborative Economics, a group which has conducted widely-cited and influential studies on the growth of green jobs in California. On October 13, the keynote will be high school student Alec Loorz, who founded the international advocacy group "Kids vs Global Warming" at age 12, when he was told he was too young to deliver Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" lecture.

Education sessions at the Summit will address financing and funding, green building, developing effective green jobs curriculum, grid neutral campuses, apprenticeships, future trends, green purchasing, and much more. Presenters include administrators, architects, facility managers and others involved in some of the community college system's most innovative projects.

Pre-summit, full-day workshops on October 11 will each be their own "mini-summits," covering curriculum, green building, renewable energy and financing. A special pre-summit workshop on the new CalGreen building codes, which become mandatory as of January 1, 2011, will be open to all. Presenters will include: Steven Weissman, director, Energy and Cleantech Program, UC Berkeley Center for Law, Energy & the Environment; Neal E. Skiver, senior vice president, Energy and Power Finance, Bank of America; Larry Eisenberg, executive director, facilities planning and development, Los Angeles Community College District; Barbara Halsey, executive director, California Workforce Investment Boards and many more.

Developed under an Advisory Board composed of leaders from the community college sector, the Summit is the largest conference devoted to the greening of community colleges. Principal sponsors include American Modular Systems, Siemens, SolFocus, DRI Energy and Castle Press.

To register, or for more information, go to www.green-technology.org/ccsummit.  

Contact: Racquel Palmese, 626.577.5700, ext. 242, [email protected]

SOURCE Green Technology

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