2023 Worker Education & Job training Program (WEJTP)
The Harambee House / Citizens for Environmental Justice continues its twenty years of providing environmental and green technology training and the resources necessary to ensure that eligible members of the greater Savannah community can acquire skills relevant for the 21st and 22nd Centuries. This training provides information and awareness…
Worker Education and Job Training Program 2023
The Worker Education and Job Training Program (WEJTP), provides training under the HAZWOPER standard. “The HAZWOPER standard provides employers, emergency response workers, and other workers potentially exposed to hazardous substances information and training criteria to improve workplace safety and health and reduce workplace injuries and illnesses that could…
CORE MPO Metropolitan Transportation Plan
The CORE MPO is the transportation planning organization for the Savannah region. One of CORE’s functions is to create planning documents that facilitate local transportation. One important document CORE produces is The Metropolitan Transportation Plan. This plan details the future of transportation in the region over the next…
How Cities Can Take Advantage of IRA Grants, New IRS Provisions, and Direct Pay Models
“Join experts from RMI and World Resources Institute for part five of our federal funding learning series highlighting how cities can position themselves to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act* grant programs, new IRS provisions, and direct pay models to advance community-wide clean energy adoption. This webinar…
Children & Families Community Gardening
“Schoolyards, underutilized community gardens, and rooftops become organic laboratories where children and youth (ages 3-18) are introduced to the pleasures of growing, harvesting, and tasting fresh fruits and vegetables. Young children simultaneously learn about natural biological processes like cover pollination, plant morphology, and photosynthesis.” https://www.childrensaidnyc.org/programs/gogardens Links to Education…
What is Aquaponics?
“Aquaponics is a combination of aquaculture, which is growing fish and other aquatic animals, and hydroponics which is growing plants without soil. Aquaponics uses these two in a symbiotic combination in which plants are fed the aquatic animals’ discharge or waste. In return, the vegetables clean the water…
Savannah State University & Aquaponics
The purpose of this project is to lay groundwork to meet three critical urban needs using urban aquaponics: vacant land, nutrient enrichment, and urban food deserts. Links: Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education (SARE) SSU Urban Agriculture Grant Overview Go Green Tigers: Grow Green Tigers…
COVID-19: More Contagious, Less Deadly!
One thing I learned in grade school about bacteria and viruses is that all germs (all living things) evolve and mutate, but that viruses are quite dynamic mutators in the microcosmic world. From the beginning of our pandemic, medical specialists and agencies have constantly reminded us that viruses…