In June, ELP's Webinar Series will focus on our Innovation Grants Program. Throughout the month our 7 Innovation Grant Teams will be speaking about their projects, what they have learned from them, and how they can be replicated and/or scaled up.
Sea Level Rise And Smart Historic Coastal Communities: Lessons From Savannah, GA and St. Augustine, FL
June 3rd at 12:00pm Eastern
It is of great interest to stakeholders at all levels to understand the potential threats sea level rise has imposed on buildings, the severity, and the efforts needed to mitigate such hazards. Unfortunately, there is very little literature in place addressing this issue, or there is no consistent records showing that a systematic and validated approach has been taken to assess the impacts of sea level rise on historical buildings in coastal communities.
This webinar will feature ELP Senior Fellows Esther Obonyo and Wei Wu.
ZomBeads: Mardi Gras Made in New Orleans
June 5, 2013 at 12:00pm Eastern
Mardi Gras is an important cultural expression here in New Orleans, and yet it comes at a terrible cost to our environment. The success of Mardi Gras is actually measured in pounds of waste. Much of that waste is the plastic beads and trinkets thrown in the parades.
ZomBeads: Mardi Gras Made in New Orleans is a new green company incubated at the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, a nonprofit organization directed by ELP Senior Fellow Anne Rolfes. On this page are prototypes (a bracelet and key chain - the high heeled shoe is the trademark of one of the Mardi Gras clubs) of our throws. These were made locally from recycled material instead of harmful plastic.
This webinar will feature ELP Senior Fellows Anne Rolfes and Sabrina McCormick.
Ouroborus
June 13, 2013 at 12:00pm Eastern
The goal of Ouroborus is to cultivate strategic methods of implementing industrial ecology in New York City by engaging its policymakers and community leaders. The Oubroborus research team found that NYC has a largely untapped potential for industrial symbiosis opportunities - wherein byproduct materials from one industry are utilized as a feedstock for another industry - and the accompanying economic and environmental benefits that these opportunities could accrue.
Our interim report highlights the findings of the project thus far, which has focused on New York City's urban agriculture, food production, and organic waste management systems. Urban breweries and urban farms provide a simple value proposition: Breweries generate a consistent, valuable byproduct material (spent grain) that they typically must pay to dispose of, while urban farms demand organic material for soil and compost that they typically must pay to acquire. In addition, the urban agriculture sector provides a number of environmental justice benefits to the community, and the organic waste management (composting) sector provides important opportunities for job creation - both of which are key elements of the Ouroborus vision.
This webinar features ELP Senior Fellows Chris Garvin, Neil Chambers and Ana Baptista.
Training Future Leaders with Tomorrow's Technology
June 13, 2013 at 12:15pm Eastern
Training Future Leaders with Tomorrow's Technology shall train approximately 72 high school students in the fundamentals of leadership; coordinate approximately 600 hours of volunteering at social and environmental organizations; and develop a new tool to help them promote and monitor behavior changes through their social networks-thereby, starting the students on a path to emerge as community leaders.
Inspire Tomorrow's Leaders is the mantra of the High School Leadership Academy (HSL Academy), which trains high school students in the essential skills of leadership-the psychology of achievement, the sensitivity of communication and the synergy of contribution- and mentors them through volunteer experiences in their communities.
This webinar features ELP Senior Fellows Tyke Crowley, Courtney Rudd and Ted Wong.
Thriving, Leading and Innovating: The Creation of Environmental Professionals of Color Networks
June 14, 2013 at 12:00pm Eastern
The Center for Diversity & the Environment (CDE) racially and ethnically diversifies the U.S. environmental movement by developing leaders, diversifying institutions, and building community. In partnership with ELP Fellows, Marcelo Bonta, Emily Enderle, and Ava-Gay Blagrove, they request funding for the development of Environmental Professionals of Color chapters in New York and Washington, DC. The Environmental Professionals of Color (EPOC) is currently a network of over 500 leaders, many of who are the only person or one of the few people of color working at their environmental institutions. EPOC is currently a volunteer driven network with paid CDE staff coordinating and overseeing the growth, development, and functions.
EPOC has grown organically over the years with no clear strategic direction. EPOC is also the only unfunded program of CDE. An injection of seed funding will allow for the development of an intentional strategy that will create both positive short and long-term change. This project will the not only be the first funding received for EPOC but also will establish and east coast presence for the first time in the U.S.
This webinar features ELP Senior Fellows Marcelo Bonta, Emily Enderle and Ava-Gay Blagrove
Bringing a 'Sustainable Jersey' Program to the State of Pennsylvania
June 17, 2013 at 1:00pm Eastern
Sustainable communities require informed government, citizens, businesses and institutions. All of them play a continued role in ensuring a high quality of life. Often though, the barriers to achieving high quality of life are written into the policies and ordinances, corporate rules and institutional by-laws. In order to change them a strong partnership between all parties is required. Nationwide, all types of organizations are implementing measures to further their own independent sustainability, and yet without strong local government leadership with an eye to sustainability, the organizations will be limited in their success. With the help of this grant, we are proposing to expand the Sustainable Pittsburgh and 'Sustainable Jersey' models to encompass all 2,562 municipalities in Pennsylvania.
This webinar features ELP Senior Fellows Heather Cowley, Jessica Sprajcar and Lori Braunstein.
Kilowatt Ours Neighborhoods Energy Stewardship Workshops
June 18, 2013 at 12:00pm Eastern
This proposal supports the expansion of the successful Kilowatt Ours workshops. Created by ELP SERN Senior Fellow Jeff Barrie, the Kilowatt Ours organization has delivered more than 24 one-off workshops with average energy savings approaching 10% sustained for months following the workshops. This ELP grant will allow Kilowatt Ours to focus on repeated workshops in a single neighborhood, anchored with a strong community partner, over a four-month period this Fall/Winter, as a way of testing the effectiveness of repetition.
Nashville is a model sustainable community whose residents live with a high degree of awareness, lifestyles, practices and behaviors that reflect good stewardship of natural resources. A county-wide series of recurring, self-sustaining workshops and study groups perpetually reinforce and expand levels of knowledge and beliefs regarding good stewardship as a way of life. Our city and its residents thrive.
This webinar features ELP Senior Fellows Jeff Barrie, Heather Langford and Tyke Crowley.
Now in the ELP Archive
- Personal Branding in a Digital Age
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| Originally Aired March 27, 2013 |
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