Managing Lean and Green - Engage Tenants and Staff in Greening the Building

Maintaining energy efficiencies and sustainable practices in buildings is a multi-tiered effort – a building is only as green as the people who manage and live in it. Tenants and staff are key players in reducing energy use, and building owners and agency management can encourage and impact activities that reduce consumption and waste. Hear from building staff about their on-site sustainable activities, from an environmental psychologist on strategies for long-term effectiveness, and from tenant education experts about effective communication. A panel discussion will focus on how to train and engage tenants and staff to make sustainable choices through understanding and changing their behaviors.

The panel will be moderated by Sally Larsen, Sustainability Outreach Coordinator, the Supportive Housing Network of New York.

Speakers:

• Cathie Brady, Director of Property Management, Fordham Bedford Housing Corporation 
  Catherine oversees maintenance and services for over 100 buildings with nearly 3,000 units at FBHC, a not-for-profit housing organization that manages, owns, and develops sound and safe affordable housing.
• Mirele Goldsmith, Ph.D., Environmental Psychologist, Green Strides Consulting
  Mirele is an SSC Certified Green Auditor with a Ph.D. in environmental psychology. She helps organizations move toward sustainability through behavior change.
• Yianice Hernandez, Senior Program Director, Enterprise Green Communities
  Yianice oversees all aspects of Enterprise’s comprehensive evaluation efforts of the economic, environmental and health benefits of green affordable housing.
• Mary Tchamkina, Tenant Education Program Coordinator, Solar One
  Mary manages Solar One’s Tenant Education Program, which provides individualized green living education to low-income housing residents across New York City.

Mary manages Solar One’s Tenant Education Program providing individualized green living education to low-income housing residents across New York City.  In addition, she works with Solar One's NYSERDA Energy $mart Communities team to develop special projects.

For a complete list of the workshops, please click here.

The “Managing Lean and Green” training series is sponsored by the Supportive Housing Network of New York, Pratt Center for Community Development, the Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, and the Urban Homesteading Assistance Board.