Green Schools Workshop

School districts across the nation and throughout Louisana are making historic infrastructure investments, resulting in a unique opportunity to incorporate green building standards into both existing schools and new construction, creating healthy, high performance classrooms that students and teachers will use for the next thirty years or more.
 
Global Green USA is pleased to invite you to our third workshop in support of green schools in Louisiana. This workshop will highlight success stories in Louisiana and other states, with a focus on lessons learned, and frank discussion of how to find the funding, the will and the expertise necessary to make green schools happen.
 
Join school administrators and educators; architects and builders; engineers, solar installers and  facility maintenance personnel; elected officials and other interested individuals for this day long discussion and exploration of current green building practices, solar opportunities, policy matters and emerging trends.
 
We welcome your participation!

LOCATION: Baton Rouge, LA

WHEN: Saturday, February 28, 2009, 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

WHERE: College of Art + Design, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge

If you'd like to attend this event you can RSVP here.

For more information please contact Linda Stone in the New Orleans office at 504-525-2121 ext. 186 or lstone@globalgreen.org.

AGENDA

8:30-9am        Registration/Continental Breakfast

                        Plenary Sessions         

9:00-9:15        Welcoming Remarks: Marsha Cuddeback, LSU; Linda Stone, Global Green;
                        & Lisa Nice, AIA

9:15-10:00      Greening Existing Schools: Rachel Gutter, U. S. Green Building Council

10-10:45         Wilson Elementary: Louisiana’s First LEED School: Charles Montgomery,
                        HMS Architects & Linda Morgano, Global Green

10:45-11:30     Saving Energy at Four New Orleans’ Schools: Linda Morgano, Global Green

11:30-12:30     Lunch  (Box lunches provided)

                        Breakout Sessions                   

12:30-1:30      LEED Programs Overview: Angela Randall, USGBC

                        Finding the Will & the Money for Texas’ 1st LEED School: Jody Henry,
                        SHW Group

 1:30-2:30       SBSE & AIA Carbon Neutral Design Project: Chris Theis, LSU School
                       of Architecture

                       Green Building Policy: Mary Luevano & Linda Stone, Global Green,
                       and Invited legislators

 2:30-3:15       Final Presentation

                       Setting Up a Solar for Schools Program and…                                   

3:15-3:45       Making it Work in Louisiana (open discussion): Kevin Lynn, Sentech, Inc.
                       & Dept. of Energy

3:45- 4pm      Where Do We Go From Here: Linda Stone, Global Green

4:00-5:30       Wine & Cheese Reception                    

                      Chat with speakers and legislators