[GSBN] Chris Magwood's new "Endeavour"

[Bohdan Dorniak]

Congratulations Chris.

What a great idea.

These types of learning centres should be established throughout all
countries - as centres of excellence for sustainable construction colleges.

 

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Bohdan Dorniak

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From: GSBN-bounces at sustainablesources.com
[mailto:GSBN-bounces at sustainablesources.com] On Behalf Of Chris Magwood
Sent: Wednesday, 7 September 2011 12:10 PM
To: (private, with public archives) Global Straw Building Network
Subject: [GSBN] Chris Magwood's new "Endeavour"

 

Hi all,

I'm really pleased to be able to announce the launch of the web site for the
new, not-for-profit education centre of which I am a founding director. I
have decided to move on from my position at Fleming College and be part of
this new initiative to create a more coherent and comprehensive sustainable
building education centre, based in my hometown of Peterborough, Ontario,
Canada.

You can see the new web site here: www.endeavourcentre.org

I hope you'll take a moment to check it out and hopefully link to it from
your own web site. I'd be glad to reciprocate if you let me know.

Those of you who are familiar with the program I started and have been
running at Fleming College for the past seven years (!) will see a strong
resemblance to that program in Endeavour's Sustainable New Construction
program. A similar model is being applied to our Sustainable Renovation
program. To these, we are adding a new Sustainable Design program as well.
All of these are full-time, intensive programs with lots of hands-on
involvement on the part of the students. Active participation in full-scale
projects will continue to be at the core of our methodology.

To these full-time programs, we're also adding a workshop schedule full of
shorter courses on specific topics. If you're somebody who teaches workshops
and you'd like to do so at Endeavour, please let us know. We're excited to
be able to host lots of you in this part of the world and help you share
what you do (while paying you to do so!).

Of particular interest to members of GSBN is the fact that Endeavour will be
able to accept students from outside Canada with no penalties or increased
fees. This was not possible at Fleming College, and we look forward to the
wider mix of students who will be able to join us from around the world.

We've put a lot of work into trying to make the Endeavour web site
informative. We are committed to "open source" sustainable building and I'm
keen to continue building the site and adding more detail and documentary
about what we do. I hope you find it interesting, and I'm keen to hear your
feedback.

I am really excited about this new Endeavour, and hope to include an awful
lot of you in it at some point or another!

Sincerely,

Chris Magwood



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