brown bag luncheon series on green entrepreneurship
Ways , Howard
Brown Bag Luncheon Series
Creating wealth building through
green entrepreneurship
Come learn about Cleveland’s ground breaking Evergreen Business Initiative: a partnership between the residents of six of Cleveland’s underserved neighborhoods and some of Cleveland’s most important “anchor institutions” – the Cleveland Foundation, the City of Cleveland, Case Western Reserve University, the Cleveland Clinic, University Hospitals, and many others.
Steve Dubb, Research Director of The Democracy Collaborative, will discuss the lessons learned from Cleveland and how they can be applied to DC’s higher education sector.
Through cooperative, resident ownership, three distinct business models emerged in Cleveland: solar energy, commercial laundry and urban agriculture.
Learn how the collective purchasing power of anchor institutions became the economic driver of new locally owned business coops.
May 25, 2012
11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Windows Lounge
2nd Floor Building 38
Bring Your Own Lunch!
Space is limited so please RSVP no later than May 23 to: hw...@udc.edu.
After the presentation, please attend the campus sustainability tour to see all of the recent green investments at UDC!
Steve Dubb is the principal author of Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development (2007) and Building Wealth: The New Asset-Based Approach to Solving Social and Economic Problems, which was published by The Aspen Institute in 2005.
Howard Ways, AICP
Director of Sustainable Development
College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability and Environmental Sciences
Center for Sustainable Development
Member, Council of Government’s Climate, Energy and Environment Policy Committee
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