Welcome to DC Greenworks! 
 
DC Greenworks, a 501 c3 non-profit, is the national capital region's preeminent green roof advocate and educator, as well as a one stop shop for green roof consultation, design, and installation. We serve the Washington, D.C. community by providing training, tools, and techniques that utilize, protect and advance the environment.    DC Greenworks sees a vital connection between economy and ecology, employment potential and environmental sustainability.  We actively seek to discover, promote, and deliver cutting edge solutions that are cost effective, eco-friendly, and socially beneficial.
 
 
Our mission is to promote urban social revitalization through environmental restoration.
 
To learn more about us, please have a look around our website and check out our latest newsletter here!
 
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 WASHINGTOND.C. GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE WORKSHOP
 

 Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 9:00 AM- 12:30 PM 

Location: 1341 H Street NE

Suite 203 Washington, D.C. 20002 

 Cost: $75 / $50 Students (Tuition includes course manual.)

This half day seminar will provide attendees with a review of various vegetative technologies in urban areas (i.e. green walls, roofs, urban forests, rain gardens), present the latest research on their many performance benefits, and showcase a variety of leading edge policy and program developments that support the greening of our cities. Ideal for policy makers and other advocates of urban greenery.  
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What if every day were Earth Day?
 
 
 Check out a new video featuring Van Jones, Green Collar Jobs Advisor to the White House Council on Environmental Quality, and Sara Loveland, DC Greenworks Interim Executive Director, talking about our part of the green collar jobs movement.  We are so honored to have been selected by the White House for this Earth Day feature!
 

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Our Latest Initiatives: 
 

H Street Grows Green  
 
DC Greenworks, whose mission is to promote urbansocial revitalization through environmental restoration, and GreenLiving Consulting, a Capitol Hill-based company that helps businessesand households adopt eco-practices, have teamed up with H Street MainStreet to help the H Street NE Corridor explore opportunities forgreening local businesses and the surrounding community. As ahistorically and culturally unique corridor with many opportunities forredevelopment, H Street NE has an opportunity to create the greenestMain Street in the District of Columbia and possibly the country.
Themain goal of the H Street Grows Green initiative is to help the H Street NE businesscommunity achieve the increased benefits of being both anenvironmentally sustainable as well as a vibrant and economicallysuccessful main street commercial district. DC Greenworks andGreen Living Consulting will provide resources and education to the HStreet Business community that can help strengthen their economicpotential while reducing their impact on the environment and business operating expenses.
 
H Street Business Owners:
Please help us kick off thisinitiative by signing up today to take the H Street Grows GreenBusiness Survey!
Contact Adrienne Spahr at rsvp@greenlivingconsulting.com
202.518.6195
 
 
greeNEr
 
DC Greenworks is proud to announce that we have been awarded $150,000 by the Deputy Mayor's Office for Planning and Economic Development's Neighborhood Investment Fund Target Area Grant Program.  Our new program, 'greeNEr' (Green Roofs for Environmental and Economic Revitalization), will provide funding for the subsidized installation of 11 green roofs in the H Street NE business corridor.  The program will leverage community volunteers and train several green collar apprentices, while providing business owners with comprehensive project management and installation services, as well as up to $9,000 in subsidy towards applicable green roof expenses. 
 
This exciting new program is the first step towards DC Greenworks vision to help make the H Street NE Corridor one of the greenest main streets in the country, topped off with green roofs, of course!  Using the greeNEr model, a $3 million program could provide enough funding to green roof the entire 220,000 sq ft footprint of the commercial corridor, generate $1.5 million in private investment, train 40 green collar apprentices, engage 1,500 volunteers!
 
H Street Business Owners: Please email Sara Loveland today for more information!  sara@dcgreenworks.org
 
 Volunteers: If you'd like to sign up to learn about green roofing, hands on, in a day of volunteerism, please email us! volunteer@dcgreenworks.org