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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
• Ron Ruggiero - Apollo Alliance, www.apolloalliance.org
• Ruben Lizardo – PolicyLink, www.policylink.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
• Ron Ruggiero of Apollo Alliance, www.apolloalliance.org
• Ruben Lizardo of PolicyLink, www.policylink.org

11am-12pm

Morning workshops (simultaneously):

(Room 202) Green Collar Jobs – Nashville
• Host: Dr. Sekou Franklin, Green-Collar Jobs Task Force of Nashville/Davidson
• Robert Grant, 2nd Chances, Inc.
• Tony Adams, Central Labor Council

(Room 206) Sustainability Innovations

• Host: Mark Burnett, Tennessee Alliance for Progress
• Shavaun Evans, Food Security Partners
• Sizwe Herring, EarthMatters Tennessee
• Susan Shann, Earth Revolution

(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
• Youth Speaks Nashville performance

1:30-2:15 pm

Auditorium: Green Jobs in Action

• Julian McQueen of Green for All, www.greenforall.org
• Green Opportunities, www.greenopportunities.org

2:30-3:30 pm

Afternoon workshops (simutaneously):

(Room 202) Green Collar Jobs - Statewide

• Host: Evonne Tisdale, Center for Community Change
• Martha Wettemann, TN Department of Labor and Workforce Development
• Rick Held and Stan Johnson, Socially Equal Energy Efficient Development SEEED, Knoxville
• Amy Anderson, David Beaty, SOCM

(Room 205) Cap and Trade and the Economy

• Host: David Lyle, Tennessee Alliance for Progress
• Don Scharf, Sierra Club of Middle Tennessee
• John McFadden, Tennessee Environmental Council
• Eric Jones, Repower America


(Room 206) Green Business

• Host: Gene TeSelle, Tennessee Alliance for Progress
• Erik Daughtrey, e3innovate
• Tony Okhiria, Lab Four
• Scott Davis, Pride Publications

 

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
• Des Alexander, Fisk University, Youth Organizer

9-10:30 am

What can I do? Energy Efficiency
• Jennifer Barrie, Kilowatt Ours

10:30-10:45 am

Break

10:45-11:15 am

Helping Mother Earth
• Ama McIntosh, EarthMatters
• Charles Omari Brown, Earth Matters

11:15 to Noon

Youth and the Green for All movement
• Julian McQueen, Green for All, www.greenforall.org
• Youth from Green Opportunities, Asheville, NC
www.greenopportunities.org

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
• Teaching Artist Benjamin Smith, executive director of Youth Speaks Nashville.

2:30 to 3:00

Writing Workshop Performance

3:00 pm

Adjourn

6:00 to 8:00pm

Post-Conference Youth Party!
Stillwaters Cafe, 1207 Jefferson Street, Nashville 37208.
Food, videos, poetry. Cost at door: Only 5 bucks!