| ENVIRONMENTAL EXCELLANCE DAY |
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| Written by Marjorie Holt | |
| Saturday, August 18 2012 | |
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You are invited to attend this low cost workshop presented by the Metropolitan Environmental Training Alliance (METRA).
THIS YEAR’S TOPICS WILL INCLUDE: Ted Howard is a social entrepreneur and author. He is the founder and Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland and serves as the Minter Senior Fellow for Social Justice with the Cleveland Foundation. For more than 30 years, Howard has worked for non-profit organizations including UN agencies and The Hunger Project. Howard is the architect of the green jobs and wealth building strategy launched in Cleveland, OH known as the Evergreen Cooperatives. Characterized in many press accounts as "The Cleveland Model," Evergreen is an effort to create green jobs in low-income neighborhoods using the purchasing power of the City's anchor institutions (hospitals, universities, etc.) to create local worker cooperative businesses. The program has received international attention from media outlets including The Economist, Al Jazeera, BusinessWeek, and Time. In 2010, Utne Reader magazine named Howard as one of the “25 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World” for his foundation of the Democracy Collaborative. REGISTER & PAY @WWW.METRA.ORG Chair Jane Gregory Orange County Vice-Chair Steve Howe City of Orlando Secretary Denise Andreu Seminole State College Treasurer Danielle Mohan Reedy Creek Improvement District Director Maryann Civil Brevard County Director Vanessa Cruz Orange County Director Jose Garrido Walt Disney World Resort Director Debby Valin FDEP Director Jorean Washington Orange County FLORIDA PROFESSIONAL ENGINEER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT HOURS (PDH) WILL BE AVAILABLE THROUGH LG ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING. |
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