Compass VI Detailed Schedule
Friday, December 4th, will be Strategy Day. A networking session will be held for people who are working to bring green jobs to their communities. All activities, except where noted, will be in Room 113 of the Cohn Adult Learning Center.
8:30 am to 9:45 am |
Breakfast meeting with Apollo Alliance. (Suggested donation: $10.) |
10 am to 5 pm |
Strategy Session for Green Jobs Activists • Julian McQueen - Green for All, www.greenforall.org |
5:30 to 7:30 pm |
Green Jobs Reception at LeQuire Gallery, 4304 Charlotte Avenue. Wine and food (suggested donation: $15; free with sponsorship or Friday/full conference registration). |
Saturday, December 5th will be People’s Day, with speakers, workshops, films, music, poetry and other activities centered around the movement for green jobs in Tennessee. All activities will be in the Cohn Adult Learning Center.
8:30-9 am |
Registration, coffee |
9-9:30 am |
Auditorium: Welcome, overview of the day, poetry, music by Susan Shann |
9:30-10:45 am |
Auditorium: The Future of Green Jobs
• Video on Green Jobs Movement |
11am-12pm |
Morning workshops (simultaneously): (Room 202) Green Collar Jobs – Nashville (Room 206) Sustainability Innovations • Host: Mark Burnett, Tennessee Alliance for Progress (Room 205) Adult Writing Workshop • Teaching Artist Benjamin Smith, executive director of Youth Speaks Nashville. |
12-1:15 pm |
Lunch in Cafeteria; • Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development (SEEED) of Knoxville video |
1:30-2:15 pm |
Auditorium: Green Jobs in Action • Julian McQueen of Green for All, www.greenforall.org |
2:30-3:30 pm |
Afternoon workshops (simutaneously): (Room 202) Green Collar Jobs - Statewide • Host: Evonne Tisdale, Center for Community Change (Room 205) Cap and Trade and the Economy • Host: David Lyle, Tennessee Alliance for Progress
(Room 206) Green Business • Host: Gene TeSelle, Tennessee Alliance for Progress |
On Saturday we will also have a Youth Agenda (free for ages 16-24); the registration is on another page. It will run concurrently with the schedule above. All activities on the Youth Agenda, except where otherwise noted, will be in the Library of the Cohn Adult Learning Center.
9-9:30 am |
Introductions and overview |
9-10:30 am |
What can I do? Energy Efficiency |
10:30-10:45 am |
Break |
10:45-11:15 am |
Helping Mother Earth |
11:15 to Noon |
Youth and the Green for All movement |
Noon |
Cafeteria (downstairs): Lunch (vegetarian available if requested beforehand) SEEED Listening Project video (Knoxville) Youth Speaks Nashville Performance |
1:30 to 2:30 pm |
Youth Writing Workshop |
2:30 to 3:00 |
Writing Workshop Performance |
3:00 pm |
Adjourn |
6:00 to 8:00pm |
Post-Conference Youth Party! |
