[ShareTompkins] Fwd: Draft - Community Building Works! Sept Newsletter

[Shira Golding]

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> From: "Community Building Works!" <communitybuildingworks at gmail.com>
> Date: September 20, 2010 8:22:22 AM EDT
> To: shiragolding at gmail.com
> Subject: Draft - Community Building Works! Sept Newsletter
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> Community Building Works!
> providing green, affordable housing locally and internationally  
> using volunteer labor
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> Please send all future correspondence to our new email address
> communitybuildingworks at gmail.com (add us to your address book to  
> ensure that you get our emails)
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> What's New!
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> Dear Volunteers,
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> Thanks so much for your efforts on the Madison Street house.  We  
> finished it strong and it is now happily occupied—costing next to  
> nothing to heat and cool due to its superinsulation and other energy- 
> saving green building methods.  We had a wonderful open-house, have  
> built up our capital chest over the summer with some small projects,  
> and are planning some tree-planting and house-building in Lansing  
> for the fall.
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> Jack was able to get final approval from the Army Corps of  
> Engineers, the Department of Environmental Conservation, the  
> Tompkins County Health Department, and the Town of Lansing’s  
> Planning Board and Town Council, and bulldozers are starting on the  
> road and infrastructure right now.  There will be plenty to do!    
> Even with the addition of Sandy Haaf as our office assistant and  
> Nate Litwin as our project coordinator, there’s plenty of work for  
> you to do to help create green affordable housing locally and  
> internationally.  Our business depends on the efforts of our  
> volunteers, and I am proud to say you all were integral to the  
> amazing accomplishment of finishing our first “new construction”  
> house!
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> I want to thank all of you that have taken some time to work on our  
> projects over the past few years.  We are immensely grateful for all  
> of the effort that you have collectively put forth, which has  
> enabled us to reach this point.
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> I hope to see you all on the jobsite again soon!
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> Cheers,
> Gideon Stone, On-Site Supervisor
> Meet our new Staff
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> Nate Litwin - Project Coordinator
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> Nate began his work in construction as a laborer for a small custom  
> homebuilding crew in Connecticut.  During this time he prepared for  
> law school and eventually became a real estate attorney after  
> completing three years of education at the University of Connecticut  
> and passing the Connecticut Bar.  He practiced primarily as a real  
> estate attorney for three years in his home town before deciding he  
> needed something more active, outdoors, and tactile.  He worked for  
> six months in Manhattan as a bicycle messenger before moving to  
> Ithaca, New York in 2008.  Since his move to Ithaca, Nate has worked  
> in the residential green building trade as a local builder.  He has  
> gained experience in multiple areas of housing construction  
> including super insulated and double stud homes.   On the side Nate  
> has worked as a facilitator for Cornell’s Team and Leadership  
> Center.  He is passionate about working for the public interest.   
> This passion shows in his previous experience teaching outdoor  
> education to youth at risk and interning as a child advocate in law  
> school.  He recently married this summer to Emily Hamilton who holds  
> a position as a farm worker housing developer with the nonprofit  
> ‘Pathstone’.  Nate is extremely excited to come to Community  
> Building Works! as a Project Coordinator.  This position blends his  
> experience working in the building trades, education, and public  
> interest.
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> Sandy Haaf - Office Assistant
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> Our new office assistant Sandy Haaf, has spent the past 8 years in  
> Ithaca raising her 2 daughters (Morgan & Samantha) with her husband  
> Mike.  Prior to being a Mom, she worked for 5 years doing computer  
> support and software/database development for an architecture firm  
> in Madison, WI.  Then she was a Information Analyst/Programmer for   
> a construction company in Lancaster, PA.  Recently she has been  
> working with Fortis Wind Energy, a local wind turbine company doing  
> database customization and bookkeeping.  She got her Computer  
> Information Science bachelors degree at Ithaca College.  She is  
> excited to be working at Community Building Works! and is looking  
> forward to this experience.
> Other Local Opportunities:
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> The Green Building and Renewable Energy Program of Cornell  
> Cooperative Extension-Tompkins County is coordinating a group of  
> volunteers to assist business / homeowners during the Green  
> Buildings Open House, October 1-3, 2010. This annual event is one of  
> the premier tours of its kind in the country, showcasing a huge  
> variety of green building methods, materials and technologies. This  
> year’s Open House features more than 30 sites (homes and  
> businesses). For more information on the tour, visit http://ccetompkins.org/gb-open-house
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> One or two volunteers are needed per site to help business /  
> homeowners give tours of their sites, sign people in and collect  
> donations, answer visitors’ questions, and assist as needed. Each  
> volunteer will meet at least once before the Open House with the  
> homeowner and/or the building’s contractor/builder and be trained on  
> the “green” features of the site.
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> If you are interested or have any questions, please contact  
> Guillermo Metz, Green Building and Renewable Energy Program  
> Coordinator, at gm52 at cornell.edu or 272-2292, x185.
> September 2010
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> Current Volunteer Opportunities
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> Volunteers needed
> October 2 & 3 from 1-5pm to transplant trees.  50% of each lot at  
> Farm Pond Circle will be reforested.  That is a lot of trees!  If  
> you are interested please email CommunityBuildingWorks at gmail.com
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> CBW! is looking to gather a group of people to take a
> shift (2 1/2 hours) to help at the Friends of the Library BookSale  
> this Oct 10, 11, 17, 18, 23, 24, or 25.  This is a great way to help  
> our community and to promote CBW!  If you are interested please  
> email CommunityBuildingWorks at gmail.com for more information.
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> Farm Pond Update
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> In a month we’ll start the first new home at Farm Pond—“Lot 18”  It  
> will be a green superinsulated  3-bedroom, 2-bath home with a study,  
> on a prime one-acre lot, to be sold to first-time homebuyers earning  
> less than 80% of the Median Family Income.
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> More Volunteer Opportunities Coming Soon!
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