I'm working on a number of efforts ot create new kinds of jobs.

Jobs which require basic tech skills, the kind of skills which ALL jobs will require in the future.

The trick is - "how can we get the new kind sof jobs CREATED so that workers can get hired by bosses.  eg workforce development."

The challenge is that traditional workforce development is geared towards traditional jobs - and BILLIONS of dollars is poured into workforce development every year - more or less as a complete waste.

A new way of thinking about jobs is required.

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Annual meeting of University Circle Inc. with keynote speaker James H. Gilmore, co-founder, Strategic Horizons LLP and author of Authenticity: What Consumers Really Want.

 $50 per person. Register here.

Collaboration was hailed by University Circle leadership at the Urban Land Institute panel, “Emerging University Circle community: A collaborative initiative" last week. Panelists see their work as a full-fledged refashioning of Cleveland and Case’s ivied town-gown relationship.

“It’s very new, but the collaborative has the ability to impact not only the big institutions like Case, University Hospital and the Clinic, but also the poorest and underserved populations in the city,” said panelist Lillian Kuri, a program coordinator focusing on urban design and sustainability at the Cleveland Foundation.

With $4 billion in bricks and mortar projects underway in the Circle, the rise of the Evergreen Cooperative, a green business incubator funded in part by the foundation and Shorebank with big University Circle institutions buying into businesses owned and operated by Clevelanders is getting a mite overshadowed. The first operation, a green laundry facility, launches this fall and will offer a toxic-free linen service for the 1,100-bed Clinic main campus among others. The goal is to leverage the $3 billion in procurement from the big fish in University Circle to create $65,000 in wealth for each employee/owner. A solar PV cooperative that will lease the panels and a commercial greenhouse are also in the pipeline. Kuri envisions at least one hundred start ups creating thousands of green collar jobs right in the backyard of the region’s second largest employment center.

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The Urban Land Institute hosts a panel discussion, featuring Ari Maron (Partner, MRN Ltd.), Russell Berusch (Vice President, Commercial Development, Case Western Reserve University), Maribeth Feke (Director of Programming & Planning, RTA), Chris Ronayne (President, University Circle Inc.), and a representative of the Cleveland Clinic. The moderator is Ken McGovern of Planning & Development Services. Registration begins at 3:30 pm, and the panel runs from 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm, followed by a reception.

The deadline to register is Tuesday, June 23, 2009. Registration is $40 for ULI Members, $30 for YLG & Students Members, and $30 for Public Sector Members. Non-members should add an additional $20 to the appropriate registration category. Registration includes “pre-paid” parking at Ford Road Garage between Euclid and Hessler Ct. and two beer/wine tickets.
Visit cleveland.uli.org for more information or to register.

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This fabulous, fun, FREE celebration features the Parade, presented by The Cleveland Museum of Art, and Circle Village, presented by University Circle Inc. The Parade, which begins at noon, incorporates the drama and artistry of colorful floats, puppets, costumes, dancers, and musicians. Circle Village invites visitors onto Wade Oval for an afternoon of activities, live music, and delectable food.

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The Hessler Street Fair is an annual community arts and music festival celebrating its 40th year on historic Hessler Street in Cleveland's University Circle. A family-friendly event, the fair showcases local artists, food, musicians, and poets. Attracting 10,000 visitors each year, it features a diverse mixture of musical styles and venues, and is a non-profit, volunteer-run weekend.

Leaders from six institutions which hold conservation and sustainability intrinsic to their values and mission provided a snapshot of ‘what green means’ to University Circle on Wednesday evening. Around 150 volunteers, staff and Circle Neighbors from the Women's Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra, MOCA and the Western Reserve Historical Society were updated on the green activities happening in Cleveland’s second largest employment district, the heart of its cultural life and, increasingly, a location that’s putting sustainable ideas into practice.

David Beach, director of the GreenCityBlueLake Institute at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, laid down a challenge to harness the collective brain power in University Circle to work toward a big goal. “We can be a ‘zero waste district’ or we can figure out how we capture all of our stormwater on site,” he suggested. 

Beach also highlighted some of the green initiatives at the Natural History Museum, including financial incentives for staff who bike, walk or take public transit to work, and a shared Prius hybrid for off-site meetings.

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Meeting of the University Circle Green Team, composed of representatives of many institutions in the Circle area.

For more information, contact UCI's Chris Bongorno.

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Recognizing that forty-nine percent of American meals—or about a half-billion per day— are produced in commercial kitchens, sustainable food service provider Bon Appétit Management Company isn’t leaving the responsibility up to individual consumers. The company’s 400 chefs, including Matt Auck at Case Western, are taking an active role in showing diners how small changes made by individual eaters can have a big impact on the health of the planet.

On Earth Day, April 22nd, the company’s second annual Low Carbon Diet Day, diners at all 400 Bon Appétit cafés in colleges, universities, corporations, and specialty venues will dine on dishes specially created to illustrate what low carbon eating tastes like. Cheeseburgers are out, because cows produce methane, a dangerous greenhouse gas. Expect instead creations like turkey burgers with molé sauce and roasted vegetable sandwiches livened up with vibrant herb pestos and flavorful bean spreads. At Case Western, diners will feast on Honey Glazed Sock Eye Salmon with Herb Mushroom Orzo Pasta.

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Want to know more about how to make University Circle a leading “green” district? The Womens Council of the Cleveland Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Cleveland Botanical Garden, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, The Women’s Committee of The Cleveland Orchestra, MOCA, and the Western Reserve Historical Society, invite you to a Circle Neighbors’ panel discussion on “What Does Green Mean to the Circle?”

The event takes place at 5 p.m., Wednesday, May 6, 2009 at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in University Circle. A reception will start off the evening, with the panel discussion beginning at 5:30 p.m. and ending at 7 p.m. Representatives from several University Circle institutions will speak. Places being represented include the GreenCityBlueLake, Cleveland Museum of Natural History; the Cleveland Clinic; University Circle Inc.; the Cleveland Foundation; Case Western Reserve University; and Cleveland Botanical Garden. The panel will discuss ways University Circle can be known not only as a leading cultural district but also as a leading “green” district.

To RSVP to this event, please call Lauren Kelly at (216) 231-4600, ext. 3279, (216) 231- 1177, or E-mail lkelly@cmnh.org.