Preservation and Sustainability presentation to be held at Heritage Friends Meeting in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, October 4th

September 23, 2008For Immediate Release
Contact: Tim Razzaq
(206) 202-2883
info@weareboost.org
http://www.weareboost.org

Preservation and Sustainability presentation to be held at Heritage Friends Meeting in Philadelphia, PA on Saturday, October 4th

(Philadelphia, PA) – September 23, 2008 - Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (BOOST) cordially invites everyone to an information session by Registered Architect and LEED™ accredited professional Jason Kliwinski. Mr. Kliwinski will deliver his presentation on ”Life-Cycles: Historic Preservation, Adaptive Re-Use, & Sustainability - Natural Fits”. The presentation will be held on Saturday, October 4 from 3PM - 6PM at Heritage Friends Meeting located at Fourth & Arch Streets in Philadelphia, PA.

Key topics that will be presented and discussed include:

• Defining what sustainability means in the built environment
• Understanding carbon neutrality and the impact of the built environment
• Understanding the relationship between preservation, adaptive reuse and sustainability
• Explain the environmental impacts and the relationship of sustainability to others.
• Understanding the importance of sustainability and benefits/economics

As the Associate Director of Sustainable Design for Trenton, NJ-based Spiezle Architectural Group, Inc., Mr. Kliwinski has more than thirteen years of experience in the practice of architecture and sustainable design principles and is one of the preeminent professional’s active in the field of environmentally responsible design. Mr. Kliwinski educates contractors, building owners, and professionals at presentations and conferences regarding the cost-effective incorporation of sustainable design and “green” construction into everyday budgets.

He is actively involved with the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) and New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability (NJHEPS), and serves as the Second Vice President and Chair of the Committee on the Environment for the New Jersey Chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIANJ).

Advanced registration required: $35 for adults, $15 for children under 12 years old, and children under 5 years old are admitted FREE. Special group rate applies for groups of ten or more ($30 per-person). For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email lifecycles@weareboost.org. Special, limited time offers are also available on the BOOST website (http://www.weareboost.org) and email newsletter.

Since 2007, Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (BOOST) has planned, promoted, and coordinated over 50 forums, initially in the Trenton-Mercer County region. As a result of the demand for sustainable design education in the Philadelphia region, BOOST is happy to offer a series of informational presentations on environmentally responsible design and sustainability in the city of Philadelphia. They have developed a speakers' bureau that includes academics, architects, business owners and entrepreneurs as well as professionals and practitioners. Within this bureau, speakers have expertise in areas ranging from green building and sustainable community design to personal and organizational leadership capacity building. For more information, visit our website: http://www.weareboost.org

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Join We Are BOOST Speakers’ Bureau Today at www.weareboost.org

“On a personal level, as a mother of three girls, I can fully relate to BOOST’s principles for healthy living. It is my belief that BOOST stands for all that is right in the design and planning community. WESKetch is excited to partner with BOOST to encourage individuals and communities to think about how to best utilize our resources for the benefit of ourselves and our neighbors.”

-Anastasia Harrison - LEED-ap, IAQA with WESKetch Architecture + Interior Design
-- full testimonial

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Whether you are in the public or private sector, you are likely to have a message you want to get out about your company, organization, business, corporation, institution or agency.

We Are Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (We Are BOOST) has planned, promoted, and coordinated over 100 workshops, lectures, seminars, focus sessions, redevelopment site tours, conferences, and public awareness forums over the course of the past two years.

Your program, project, policy work, product, or service deserves attention and We Are BOOST are one of the leading visibility-builders in the New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan region for new and emerging leaders and markets. To become a member of our Speakers’ Bureau, please request or download our We Are BOOST Membership Guidelines and Application at http://www.gss-set.com/weareboost/index.php?/all_speakers_trainers/profiles or call (206) 202-2883 or our email request @ speakers@weareboost.org.

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“As a real estate investor and former banker I have worked with thousands of people on numerous projects. But Tim is without question the hardest working man I have ever met in community development. He is humble and brilliant. This gentleman focus on teamwork is so engrained, that he used the word we so much, I thought he was speaking French (smile). His work ethic, integrity and ability to deliver are beyond reproof. Because of Tim my latest book while in its “pre-release” stage has sold 30,000 copies. Tim is worth his weight not in gold, but diamonds”

- Greg Jones - Chief Credit Strategist at USA Credit Program – on We Are BOOST Founder and Executive Director, Tim Razzaq – visit http://www.linkedin.com/myprofile?trk=hb_upphoto&goback=%2Ehom%2Eprf for Tim’s profile…

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Leading the way in green technology education and awareness, We Are Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (We Are BOOST) plans, promotes, and coordinates educational forums and public awareness events. We also develop customized training modules for public and private groups and leaders.

Our Mission is to facilitate personal, organizational, and social empowerment through our consortium of academic and industry leaders by offering everyday citizens innovative, yet practical ways to use green technology and sustainable design in everyday living. Our industry professionals also provide real estate developers and municipal officials technical assistance for incorporating green and sustainable features into their building plans and community design. To become a member, please request or download our We Are BOOST Membership Guidelines and Application at http://www.gss-set.com/weareboost/index.php?/all_speakers_trainers/profiles or call (206) 202-2883 or @ speakers@weareboost.org.

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“My experience with these organizations and understanding of implementing workshops, State regulations, current and pending sustainable design legislation, available incentives, and job market opportunities in sustainability make our partnership an excellent opportunity for both organizations to ‘get the word out’ about the benefits and opportunities of sustainability. I am extremely pleased to be coordinating with your organization to provide an excellent training workshop series for the community.

Your efforts at BOOST align with Spiezle’s objectives of moving New Jersey towards greater energy efficiency, carbon-footprint reduction, and being the hub for green collar workforce development”

-- Jason Kliwinski – LEED-ap and Co-founder of the US Green Building Council’s New Jersey Chapter -- Read full testimonial

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To become a member of We Are BOOST Speakers’ Bureau, please request or download our We Are BOOST Membership Guidelines and Application at http://www.gss-set.com/weareboost/index.php?/all_speakers_trainers/profiles or call (206) 202-2883. Our email request address is speakers@weareboost.org

Register for We Are BOOST Fall Lecture and Film Series of Events at www.WeAreBOOST.org

Leading the way in green technology education and awareness, We Are Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (We Are BOOST) * www.weareboost.org * plans, promotes, and coordinates educational forums and public awareness events. We also develop customized training modules for public and private groups and leaders. To inquire about one or more of our Speakers, please call (206) 202-2883 or email speakers@weareboost.org. For Sponor Opportunity, please email sponsors@weareboost.org.

Early-bird special: register for debut of Christopher Zelov's new FILM, "City21", parts 1 & 2 by Friday, September 26 and receive Automatic $10 discount on We Are BOOST Philly/NJ metro events with Jason Kliwinski (October 4 at Heritage Friends, Philadelphia) and Anastasia Harrison (October 26 at Dock Street Micro Brewery, Philadelphia). Registration forms for City21 can be obtained by calling (206) 202-2883 and by email request at city21@weareboost.org

We Are Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (We Are BOOST) welcomes registration for fall lecture and film series. We encourage individual, organization, small business, corporation, institution, or agency interested in investing a marketing sponsor for our series to read through our Corporate Sponsorship Package to gain additional information about the sponsorship opportunities and benefits. Click for sponsor package http://www.gss-set.com/weareboost/index.php?/sponsors

Friday, October 3 - 6PM - 7PM for Friday Night Lights at Maxine’s Caribbean Restaurant (2nd Floor Private Party Room) located at 120 South Warren Street in Downtown Trenton – Professor Alvyn Haywood facilitates a screening and community discussion of "American Blackout: Take Action, Join the Movement", and more.... Advanced registration required: $12 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years old and under 5 yrs. FREE. For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email info@weareboost. Also visit www.weareboost.org for full list of topics and additional resources. For speaking engagement inquiries, email speakers@weareboost.org. Buffet-style refreshments will be available.

Saturday, October 4 - 3PM - 6PM at Heritage Friends Meeting @ Fourth & Arch Streets (Philadelphia) Jason Kliwinski - AIA, LEED-AP - Co-Founder US Green Building Council NJ Chapter on "Life-Cycles: Historic Preservation, Adaptive Re-Use, & Sustainability - Natural Fits". Advanced registration required: $35 for adults, $15 for children under 12 years old and under 5 yrs. FREE. Special group rate for groups of ten or more ($30 per-person). For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email lifecycles@weareboost. Also visit www.weareboost.org for additional resources.

Friday, October 10 - 6PM - 8PM for Friday Night Lights at Maxine’s Caribbean Restaurant (2nd Floor Private Party Room) located at 120 South Warren Street in Downtown Trenton - The first public screening of Knossus Project's film, "City21", part 1 of 2, hosted by director Christopher Zelov (part 2 to be held on Friday, October 17). Advanced registration required: $12 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years old and under 5 yrs. FREE. Special group rate for groups of ten or more ($7 per-person). For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email info@weareboost. Also visit www.weareboost.org for full film director's statement and additional resources.

Friday, October 17 - 6PM - 8PM for Friday Night Lights at Maxine’s Caribbean Restaurant (2nd Floor Private Party Room) located at 120 South Warren Street in Downtown Trenton - The first public screening of Knossus Project's film, "City21", part 2 of 2, hosted by director Christopher Zelov. Advanced registration required: $12 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years old and under 5 yrs. FREE. Special group rate for groups of ten or more ($7 per-person). For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email info@weareboost. Also visit www.weareboost.org for full film director's statement and additional resources.

Friday, October 24 - 6PM - 8PM for Friday Night Lights at Maxine’s Caribbean Restaurant (2nd Floor Private Party Room) located at 120 South Warren Street in Downtown Trenton - Anastasia Harrison continues her workshops created exclusively for We Are BOOST with part 1 of 10, "Recycling – what is really done with your garbage when it leaves in that magic truck! Have you ever wondered what happens to your garbage after you pack it up in a plastic bag and leave it on the curb?" Advanced registration required: $12 for adults, $7 for children under 12 years old and under 5 yrs. FREE. Special group rate for groups of ten or more ($7 per-person). For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email info@weareboost. Also visit www.weareboost.org for full list of topics and additional resources. For speaking engagement inquiries, email speakers@weareboost.org.

Sunday, October 26 3PM - 6PM - at the Dock Street Micro Brewer ( Philadelphia ) TOUR OF BREWERY and special presentation by Anastasia Harrison on, “Why live green: What are the real reasons to change your perspective on our world: Filter out the ‘Green Noise’” Advanced registration required: $35 for adults, $15 for children under 12 years old and under 5 yrs. FREE. Special group rate for groups of ten or more ($30 per-person). For more information or to register, call (206) 202-2883 or email info@weareboost. Also visit www.weareboost.org for full film director's statement and additional resources. BUFFET STYLE DINNER INCLUDED AND TOUR THE BREWERY

Haywood, Zelov, Kliwinski, Harrison and You Are BOOST: We Are BOOST October Calendar of Events at www.weareboost.org

Haywood, Zelov, Kliwinski, Harrison and You Are BOOST: We Are BOOST October Calendar of Events at http://www.weareboost.org/.

Leading the way in green technology education and awareness, We Are Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (We Are BOOST) plans, promotes, and coordinates educational forums and public awareness events. We also develop customized training modules for public and private groups and leaders. To inquire about one or more of our Speakers, please call (206) 202-2883 or email speakers@weareboost.org.

Our Mission is to facilitate personal, organizational, and social empowerment through our consortium of academic and industry leaders by offering everday citizens innovative, yet practical ways to use green technology and sustainable design in everyday living. Our industry professionals also provide real estate developers and municipal officals technical assistance for incorporating green and sustainable features into their building plans and community design.

Here is a snapshot of some areas of focus our Bureau addresses:

Clean Indoor Air Quality
Community Outreach and Advisory
Earned Media Generation
Eco-Entreprenuership Education for Sustainability (K-12)
Emotional Intelligence
Entrepreneurship for Youth and Adults
Green Building
Historic Preservation, Adaptive Reuse & Sustainability
Leadership & Organizational Capacity Building
Smart Growth
Solar and Photovoltaic Energy Systems
Strategic Planning and Business Development
Sustainable Community Design
Sustainable Modern Metal Work and Functional Sculpture Art
Sustainability for Healthy Homes and Families
Urban Farming and Gardening
Urban Mobility
Whole Ecological Design

More GSS-SET Blog News coming sooon.

Registration Still Open for Healthy You, Healthy Homes, Healthy Planet: Urban Structure and Green Design Eco-Lawn and Garden Party - Raindate Set Alsp

Saturday, September 13 Eco-Lawn & Garden Party Still Registering!

Anatasia Harrison, AIA, LEED-AP, IAQA - (Healthy Home, Healthy You, Healthy Planet)

Dominique Defranco Trio (live jazz)

Modern Metal Work (Sustainably Designed Functional Sculpture-Art)Yes, you & your family are having a BonFire with Pete Abram's FireBowl (see pic. above/center)

Green Light 2-Day (Vegetaian Cuisine: BBQ Tofu, Teriyaki Chicken, Whole Grain Brown Rice, Spring Mix Salad with Fresh vegetables & dressing, Vegan Strawberry Cheesecake and Fudge Brownies with Walnuts)

Barbara Stange (Assessing Personal and Family Health: Mind, Body, & Spirit)WHEN & WHERE:

Saturday, September 13: 3pm-dusk Lawn & Garden Party @ 2320 Stuyvesant Ave. in Trenton's Scenic West Ward

Register Today @ http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=z9e85qcab.0.0.l7p8upcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weareboost.org%2F&id=preview RSVP Now @ info@weareboost.org. ONLY $12 per-person, $10 group-rate for 10 or more, children under 12 only $7, children under 5 FREE

Simply Print this Message & Register byMailing Check or Money Order to:

We Are BOOST
P.O. Box 104
Bordentown, New Jersey 08505

Or Visit http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=z9e85qcab.0.0.l7p8upcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weareboost.org%2F&id=preview and print and mail downloadable Registration Form

Voice (206) 202-2883 Vision http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?t=z9e85qcab.0.0.l7p8upcab.0&p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.weareboost.org%2F&id=preview Velocity: info@weareboost.org

RAIN DATE & LOCATION:

Sunday, September 14 Indoors @ Maxines' 2 Restaurant 3pm 'til dusk
@ 120 S. Warren Street - 2nd Floor @ Downtown Trenton

Urban Structure and Design, and Green Living Featured in Trenton

The photo directly above is a "Fire Bowl" crafted from recycled elevator rope! Peter Abrams of Modern Metal Work (pictured at right), will showcase many of his functional and sustainably-designed sculpture works at BOOST's and Simply Natural Living's Lawn and Garden party on Saturday, September 13 from 3PM until dusk at 2320 Stuyvesant Avenue in Trenton's scenic west ward.

(Trenton, NJ) It is a collaboration featuring sustainable, healthy, environmentally friendly living ideas, as Modern Metal Work, WESKetch Architecture + Interiors, Inc., Simply Natural Living, We Are Building Open Opportunity Structures Together (We Are BOOST) , and the U.S. Green Building Council, New Jersey Chapter, invites everyone to our Lawn and Garden Party Saturday, September 13th, from 3pm until dusk, at 2320 Stuyvesant Avenue in Trenton's scenic West Ward. There will be presentations by featured guests and representatives from the sponsoring organizations, great food, and music. This event is a family affair, and the sponsors encourage parents to bring their children along.

The festivities will feature presentations by architect and indoor air quality expert Anastasia Harrison, AIA, LEED-AP, IAQA, Barbara Stange, owner of Simply Natural Living, and Tim Razzaq, founder and executive director of BOOST. Sculptor Peter Abrams, of Modern Metal Work, will unveil his latest work, made entirely of recycled materials. The Dominique DeFranco Trio will perform, providing a jazz-filled backdrop in which visitors can meet and talk with the presenters and sample vegetarian cuisine prepared by GreenLight 2-Day.

The past few months have been an exciting time for Stange, who recently moved her Simply Natural Living operation out of its retail space in a Ewing, NJ strip mall to operate exclusively online at www.simplynaturalliving.com. "Facing all the various nuisances, acknowledging that change is constant, we are moving with grace," said Stange about the transition. She will share valuable insight on how individuals and families can assess and improve their personal and family health by understanding the importance of that balance between mind, body, and spirit.

Anastasia Harrison is the first LEED-AP architect in New Jersey to earn an indoor air quality certification from the Indoor Air Quality Association. She will present an overview of a ten-part workshop series she has developed exclusively for BOOST, outlining such topics as "Living Healthier Starting Today", "From Recycling to FreeCycling", "Babies: What You Put on Goes In" and "Green Renovations and Fix-ups".

Peter Abrams' Modern Metal Work is a Trenton-Based company creating art out of recycled items such as elevator cable wire and various metals. Modern Metal Work also hosts an apprentice program in which Abrams teaches students the finer points of architecture and metalworking.

Since 2007, BOOST has planned, promoted, and coordinated over 50 forums, primarily in the Trenton-Mercer County region. It has concrete plans to hold meetings throughout the entire Tri State region, educating local groups and building relationships. They have developed a speakers' bureau that includes academics, architects, business owners and entrepreneurs as well as professionals and practitioners. Within this bureau, speakers have expertise in areas ranging from green building and sustainable community design to personal and organizational leadership capacity building.

The cost for this event is $12 for adults and $7 for children, age five to 12. Special group rates are available upon request. Please RSVP for this event before Friday, September 5th. To register, and find out more about this enlightening event, call (206) 202-2883, or visit www.gss-set,com/weareboost to obtain a printable registration form or email info@weareboost.org.

BOOST & Simply Natural Living to Collbarate on Forums

Increasingly, nonprofit, for-profits, and public organizations have been cooperating in producing and distributing a wide range of goods and services. Simply Natural Living is pleased to announce to you, our valued customers, that we are partnering with Tim Razzaq and Building Open Opportunity Structures Together, also known as BOOST.

BOOST is a creative community solutions organization that develops and utilizes innovative and customized strategies to build structured relationships between individuals, organizations, businesses, institutions and agencies that lead to beneficial social, economic, and educational outcomes and opportunities in under-served communities and emerging markets. BOOST compliments and enhances the work of Simply Natural Living by affording our company and its customers with access to leading-edge planning, promoting, and coordinating public awareness forums, customized workshops and seminars, conferences, on-going courses of instruction, and distribution of print and digital information. BOOST has an excellent Speakers’ Bureau made of some of the top professionals and practitioners in the fields of green building, sustainable community design, smart growth, and the emerging environmental economy.

As a Simply Natural Living customer and supporter, you will be receiving first-hand invitations to BOOST’s events and activities that will take place throughout the entire state of New Jersey and Philadelphia metropolitan region. For more information about BOOST, please visit their web site at www.weareboost.org and their blog at www.gss-set.blogspot.com.