Project I: National Public and Media Outreach Campaign

Project II: National Education Initiative for a Solar Future

Project III: Business Education/Real Estate Developers

Business Education/Real Estate Developers

Rethinking Business: Integrating Solar Energy For a Sustainable Future

Similar to "Rethinking Design Curriculum," GP organized real estate brokers, developers, business leaders, business schools, and like-minded non-profits to address the economic and environmental benefits of solar energy as it relates to business, property and land-use/management, promotion, and education. The objective of Project II is to educate business on their essential role of utilizing solar energy and renewables to create a competitive energy market and a sustainable business environment.

Our first Building Technologies Conference "Increasing Profits Using Sustainable Technologies" was held in West Palm Beach on October 7, 1999 for real estate brokers. Our Keynote Speaker, Donald W. Aitken, Ph.D, Senior Scientist, Union of Concerned Scientists, presented a slide show and talk on the importance of the built environment and ways we can use modern sustainable design technologies to use resources more efficiently and mitigate climate change.

Other speakers included Casey Coates Danson, Dr. David Benjamin, University of Florida, who discussed the elements necessary to create communities that nurture their inhabitants on a long-term basis and work in harmony with the environment. "Design for Climate" was the subject of Kaizer Talib, A.I.A, President, Urbanform Design, and Dr. Pierce Jones, University of Florida, discussed cutting edge building construction methods and materials which mitigate climate change, from energy use, windstorm damage, helping to decrease maintenance, insurance and financing costs.

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