GREEN CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGE SUMMIT
ARTICLE REPUBLISHED FROM CA EDD WEBSITE
SEPTEMBER, 2008

Community colleges are increasingly a focal point for statewide efforts to create a green economy and workforce in California. The energy and interest surrounding the emerging green economy provides community colleges with a unique opportunity to increase their perceived and actual value to the communities where they exist.

The Summit has been designed to respond to these trends by:

• Highlighting the savings available from building and running green campuses.
• Emphasizing and demonstrating how a green training curricula could and should be comprehensive, coordinated campus to campus, and tied into the new energy economy emerging in California.
• Motivating attendees and showing how community colleges can be a living laboratory where students use their training to green their campuses (e.g., on site apprenticeships).
• Emphasizing and presenting how community colleges can be a model of sustainable practices to the community where the campus is located.
• Helping to highlight and reinforce the community college commitment to meet the green workforce demands and opportunities through its educational commitments and programs.

For more information about LA Works, contact

Sandy Meza, Public Relations and Marketing Specialist
LA Works
(626) 960-3964 ext. 2321
sandy.meza@laworks.org

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