From Roots Up Green Jobs Curriculum
Roots Up Green Job Training is a 21 week program to prepare participants to work as entry level assistants to a solar hot water installation crew or weatherization crew. It can also be used as an sustainable energy introduction for students who are interested in other related careers.
It is written for out-of-school youth in high school equivalency, literacy, and ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) programs.
The lessons center around participatory hands-on activities and encourage students to integrate technical training in renewable energy and energy efficiency with a broad understanding of climate change, peak oil, environmental justice, green jobs, and economic challenges in the US today.
We recommend the book "Cut Your Energy Bills Now" (Bruce Harley, 2008, Taunton Press, Newtown CT) as an accompaniment to this program for trainees reading at a secondary school level or beyond.
This curriculum is being developed by Scott Reed and Lynn Benander from Co-op Power in collaboration with the Nuestras Raices Roots Up program in Holyoke MA and the Brick House Green Jobs Training Program in Turners Falls MA. We welcome collaborators! This curriculum is offered as a free resource so that we all don't have to reinvent the wheel. Please send your feedback and any lesson materials you'd like to contribute to lynn@cooppower.coop. Thanks!
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In cooperation,
Scott Reed and Lynn Benander, Co-op Power
877-266-7543 www.cooppower.coop lynn@cooppower.coop
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