Shades of Green

During the 2009 YouthBuild AmeriCorps Green Homebuilding Service Day on the National Mall, D.C., subject matter experts including Ted Roan and Paul Jeffrey Fowler explain Box Beam Headers, solar electric panels, and more as part of the day’s Green Academy demonstrations.

Students of YouthBuild Manistee, MI recycle scrap building materials and also handle the recyclingThe reprocessing of an item into a new raw material. Recycling preserves natural resources. at the building where their classroom and workshop are located in October, 2009.

Congressman Brian Higgins (NY-27) joined Western New York AmeriCorps in announcing a $100,000 federal grant in November 2009 to help build green capacity for YouthBuild by providing professional development for staff and weatherization training for 32 members through Erie Community College to become accredited BPI Building Analysts.

YouthBuild New Bedford, MA performs an energy audit as part of Green for All’s Green Jobs Now day of action on September 27, 2009.