USGBC-Green Schools Meeting

Details 

Title:
USGBC-Green Schools Meeting
When:
Wednesday, June 24

Description

Location: Kent ISD, 2930 Knapp St. NE, Grand Rapids, MI 49525

Time: 8:30 am

Topic:

  • House Approves Legislation to Modernize and Green America’s Schools:  http://edlabor.house.gov/ newsroom/2009/05/house- approves-legislation-to.shtml

  • Michigan Renewable Schools Program – USGBC WM and Detroit Regional Chapter have been invited to sit at the stakeholder’s table and attended our first meeting last week

  • We have been accepted to present at the fall conferences for MASB and MASA.

  • Planning and discussions are underway to organize a Michigan Green School Summit in the fall

  • We exhibited at the Michigan Governor’s Education Summit in April and made some good connections.  We also exhibited at the Michigan Green Jobs Conference on May 11th with good results.  

  • Outreach – how to we engage our schools and how do we capture the data from our schools in west Michigan that have implemented green/LEED standards.

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