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| The LEED Platinum Certification Seal awarded toward Green Cincinnati Education Advocacy in 2007 |
Green Cincinnati
Education Advocacy
Green
Cincinnati Education Advocacy (herein referred to as GCEA) is Cincinnati’s
leading group to help teach the public about becoming green. Through Seminars,
tours, hands on projects, green thinkers ect… they teach the public about how
to make a green life and keep it that way. Starting in 2007 the LEED program
began in the office of Lohre and Associates, Inc. Passing the AP LEED exam and through their
work with Fernald Preserve Visitors Center (A Nuclear Facility used in the 80’s
that closed and needed expansive cleanup efforts), in which they worked with chemists and scientists to decide the best way to go about cleaning up the site in the most clean and green way possible.
Through all of this work they slowly, but surely, established themselves as the leading group in Cincinnati for Green Initiatives and Green Technologies.
The
GCEA produces literature about Green Initiatives as well as offering programs
to teach and inform the public about being Green. One program they offered
(actually on Wednesday) was a symposium on Green Landscapes. Having speakers
from all over Ohio who study Civic Garden, Green technology, Biology and Botany
they lectured on how to better approach landscapes for engineers, landscapers
and gardeners.
Not
only do they offer education for business, they also over education or home
owners. In the below video they offer an explanation and guide on how to
install Smart Foam into the Boulter House.
One interesting program offered to the public are Tours. The
tour that was just offered is a show
case of proposed green building at City Hall. A short list of the buildings
were: NKU College of InfoMatics, Steger Student Life Center here at UC.
I think
this program is very good. I mean, how many other Cincinnati Green Organizations
make such an effort to inform the public. You can even sign up for a news
letter where they send out information about events, about current Green Technologies
being developed and much more. Over all I would give the GCEA an A on
effectiveness.
Hi, Jon:
ReplyDeleteThis journal entry contained a lot of good and interesting information; I learned a lot. I was a bit confused at the beginning, though, because I wasn't sure how Lohre and Associates getting LEED certification connected with the environmental education effort, or who precisely was involved with the site cleanup you mentioned and how it was connected to the green education effort.
Two things on which I would have liked you to focus a bit more are who precisely is involved with this collaborative effort (I get that it is collaborative and involves the public, but who steers the ship?) and what challenges has the GCEA encountered? Remembe that the prompt asked you about challenges as well as accomplishments.
My other critiques are that the writing is a bit rough, so it would be a good idea for you to write in Word first, so that you can use grammar check and spell check, and then cut-and-paste here. Also, please correctly cite and caption images/videos and use in-text citation and a reference list.
Journal content: 1.45/1.6
Journal writing quality: 0.15/0.3 (citation)