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On July 15, 2010 Green Mountain Coffee® and Ashoka’s Changemakers announced the winners of their Revelation to Actionsm Your Place. Your Idea. Your Change.sm competition, naming the Yestermorrow Design/Build School as one of the three overall competition winners.
The Revelation to Action winners were announced at a Celebration Event held at the Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts in Boston. Yestermorrow’s Executive Director, Kate Stephenson, of Montpelier, Vermont was on hand to accept the award. Each winner was awarded $5,000 and will be featured on www.Changemakers.com/Revelation as one of the best ideas for mobilizing citizens to build a better community.
A panel of five distinguished judges from the Northeastern business and academic community narrowed the diverse pool of applicants to 15 finalists based on the innovation, social impact and sustainability of each entry. The Changemakers online community then voted for the best entries, and the three finalists with the most votes were selected as overall competition winners.
Yestermorrow’s prize winning project will establish a groundbreaking Semester in Sustainable Design/Build providing college students with the opportunity for a semester of study and hands-on experience in sustainable design principles and processes.
The semester will be the first program of its kind in the country, giving undergraduate students a chance to immerse themselves in the hands-on process of collaboratively designing and building an innovative, high performance “green” building for a deserving community client. Yestermorrow will design and administer the program in close consultation with faculty from a credit-granting partner institution of higher education.
Students from a variety of disciplines and majors will work closely with Yestermorrow's renowned design/build faculty and Vermont community partners, and engage with an academically rigorous, practical and inspiring curriculum. In the process they will receive a full semester's worth of credits at their home institution. After completing the program, students will return to their home universities armed with an in-depth understanding of the principles of sustainable design, and the hands-on building skills necessary to both inform and realize their design process. The program is currently in the planning stages, and slated for its inaugural session in fall 2011.
Click here to watch our 3 minute video and learn more about the Semester in Sustainable Design/Build: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGtO1Nq-wMM
Click here to view a video of all the finalists in the Revelation to Action competition: http://pixability.wistia.com/activate/08e93e1b23
Click here to view a video of why Ashoka’s Changemakers and Green Mountain Coffee launched Revelation to Action: http://www.youtube.com/changemakersvideo#p/c/EEB719E893336ECF/1/XY1dWyQDURs
