Wednesday, November 22, 2006
Happy Thanksgiving
Happy Thanksgiving to all our Heifer volunteer family!!! Dave, Rowena and Margaret, your Midwest office staff in Goshen
Heifer Wins Phoenix Award
Heifer International Wins EPA’s Phoenix Award For Its New ‘Green’ World Headquarters
World Hunger Organization Builds Environmentally Innovative Office Building
BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2006 – Heifer International, the world hunger organization that provides livestock to impoverished people in more than 50 countries around the world, today received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6 Phoenix Award for cleaning up a contaminated industrial site and building a new “green” building on it.
The Heifer International Center at 1World Avenue in Little Rock is adjacent to the Clinton Presidential Library in the River Market area. The Phoenix Awards honor organizations that redevelop contaminated industrial brownfields.
Heifer’s $17.5 million headquarters, built on the site of abandoned rail and trucking facilities, features many “green” elements – recycled and recyclable materials, insulation made from soybeans and cotton, solar lighting and heating for energy efficiency, an innovative parking lot that collects water for a constructed wetlands surrounding the building that cleans and purifies rainwater falling on the site, and a 25,000-gallon municipal water tower that collects water from the roof for flushing toilets and in the building’s supplemental radiant heating system.
The four-story, 94,000-square-foot building is a narrow 62 feet wide at its widest point, so the large windows bring indirect sunlight to every workstation in the building. The building materials include recycled steel and brick, bamboo flooring, recyclable tile carpeting, and raised floors.
Heifer partnered with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality in reclaiming the property where it built the center.
The building was honored at an awards ceremony during a national environmental conference, Brownfields 2006, in Boston, Mass. Phoenix Award winners will showcase their projects with case study presentations and exhibits for the more than 7,500 participants.
Erik Swindle, Heifer’s facilities manager, and Eileen Oldag, a development officer, spoke Monday at the conference, describing how Heifer had transformed the polluted site into a clean, healthy environment or its work force in line with its environmental work around the world. Donna Jared, vice president of development, accepted the award for Heifer
World Hunger Organization Builds Environmentally Innovative Office Building
BOSTON, Nov. 14, 2006 – Heifer International, the world hunger organization that provides livestock to impoverished people in more than 50 countries around the world, today received the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Region 6 Phoenix Award for cleaning up a contaminated industrial site and building a new “green” building on it.
The Heifer International Center at 1World Avenue in Little Rock is adjacent to the Clinton Presidential Library in the River Market area. The Phoenix Awards honor organizations that redevelop contaminated industrial brownfields.
Heifer’s $17.5 million headquarters, built on the site of abandoned rail and trucking facilities, features many “green” elements – recycled and recyclable materials, insulation made from soybeans and cotton, solar lighting and heating for energy efficiency, an innovative parking lot that collects water for a constructed wetlands surrounding the building that cleans and purifies rainwater falling on the site, and a 25,000-gallon municipal water tower that collects water from the roof for flushing toilets and in the building’s supplemental radiant heating system.
The four-story, 94,000-square-foot building is a narrow 62 feet wide at its widest point, so the large windows bring indirect sunlight to every workstation in the building. The building materials include recycled steel and brick, bamboo flooring, recyclable tile carpeting, and raised floors.
Heifer partnered with the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality in reclaiming the property where it built the center.
The building was honored at an awards ceremony during a national environmental conference, Brownfields 2006, in Boston, Mass. Phoenix Award winners will showcase their projects with case study presentations and exhibits for the more than 7,500 participants.
Erik Swindle, Heifer’s facilities manager, and Eileen Oldag, a development officer, spoke Monday at the conference, describing how Heifer had transformed the polluted site into a clean, healthy environment or its work force in line with its environmental work around the world. Donna Jared, vice president of development, accepted the award for Heifer
Wednesday, November 01, 2006
COWS AND CASH DONATED AT MISSOURI FESTIVAL OF SHARING
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The 25th annual Missouri Festival of Sharing culminated in its statewaide ingathering at the Missouri state fairgrounds in Sedelia, Missouri on Saturday, October 21st. Hundreds of people, representing Church congregations from around the state gathered to provide funds and commodities for relief and development programs both locally and world wide. Heifer has been one of the recipients of donations since the Festival's beginning and each year one overseas project and one domestic project are chosen for support, This year funds were raised for the OKI Fish and Water Buffalo project in Indonesia and beef cattle were donated for the Washington Parish Small-Scale Farmer project in Franklington, Louisiana . Jesse Strassburg, Heifer's Field coordinator for the South Central Region of the US attended the event and expressed his thanks on behalf of Heifer for the years of support the Festival has provided to our program. Donated Heifers (seen in the above picture) have been transported by volunteers to the project site. Income to support Heifer's projects is still being tabulated and will come to us in the near future. Thanks to all our Missouri Volunteers for their efforts!
The 25th annual Missouri Festival of Sharing culminated in its statewaide ingathering at the Missouri state fairgrounds in Sedelia, Missouri on Saturday, October 21st. Hundreds of people, representing Church congregations from around the state gathered to provide funds and commodities for relief and development programs both locally and world wide. Heifer has been one of the recipients of donations since the Festival's beginning and each year one overseas project and one domestic project are chosen for support, This year funds were raised for the OKI Fish and Water Buffalo project in Indonesia and beef cattle were donated for the Washington Parish Small-Scale Farmer project in Franklington, Louisiana . Jesse Strassburg, Heifer's Field coordinator for the South Central Region of the US attended the event and expressed his thanks on behalf of Heifer for the years of support the Festival has provided to our program. Donated Heifers (seen in the above picture) have been transported by volunteers to the project site. Income to support Heifer's projects is still being tabulated and will come to us in the near future. Thanks to all our Missouri Volunteers for their efforts!
GREAT VOLUNTEER WORKSHOP IN BRIGHTON, MI
A very successful volunteer workshop was held in Brighton, MI last Saturday ((oct 28). Phil and Jeanne Smith hosted the event at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Brighton and 21 people attended. Six new volunteers "signed on" and Phil and Jeanne accepted the role of Area Volunteer Coordinators for Southeast Michigan. Dave Boothby led the session assisted by Alyson Sowers our new Chicago Community Relations Coordinator. Lots of good ideas were shared and Phil's Chili really hit the spot at lunchtime!
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