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The Claymont Foundation, Inc. 2021 Scholarship Applications deadline has been extended to March 1, 2021 at 3 p.m. An earlier press release announced that the applications were due on an earlier date.
These scholarships are available to Claymont High School Seniors, current college students, who graduated from Claymont, and sophomores and juniors who will attend Buckeye Career Center in specific areas. The applications are located online at https://www.claymontschools.org/foundation/scholarships.html with the deadline for applying set for 3 p.m., March 1, 2021.
The 2021 Buckeye Career Center Carl McPeak Memorial Vocational Scholarship is given in memory and to honor the life of McPeak who was a skilled Carpenter, Electrician, HVAC expert, Plumber, Mason all building trades. This is to be used for a sophomore or junior attending Buckeye Career Center to cover tuition, lab fees, materials and supplies, such as uniforms, boots or tools.
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A plan to upgrade a cluster of nine unremarkable apartment buildings in Brooklyn typically would not merit a second look. But this isn’t a quick fix; the project, called Casa Pasiva, aims to be a new model for the sustainable transformation of the city’s housing stock.
Sleek new skyscrapers that incorporate the latest energy-efficient building materials like mass timber may look impressive, but when it comes to solving the climate crisis in New York, the real challenge lies in the city’s decades-old structures.
More than 90% of the buildings in New York today will still be standing in 2050, and nearly 70% of the city’s total carbon emissions come from buildings. Taken together, these facts suggest that the fate of those nine nondescript Brooklyn buildings, and others like them, is essential to cutting emissions.
New Yorkâs Real Climate Challenge: Fixing Its Aging Buildings
Nearly 70 percent of the cityâs total carbon emissions come from buildings. A project to retrofit nine buildings with green technology is pioneering a new solution.
The Casa Pasiva retrofit project is the first of its kind in New York. The city and New York State have zeroed in on buildings in pursuit of meaningful cuts to carbon.Credit.John Muggenborg for The New York Times
By Patrick Sisson
Dec. 29, 2020
A plan to upgrade a cluster of nine unremarkable apartment buildings in Brooklyn typically would not merit a second look. But this isnât a quick fix; the project, called Casa Pasiva, aims to be a new model for the sustainable transformation of the cityâs housing stock.
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The Montgomery County Community Foundation is pleased to announce that Sidney Campbell has been named the 2021 Lilly Endowment Community Scholar for Montgomery County.
Sidney will receive four years of full tuition to any accredited public or private nonprofit college or university in Indiana. In addition, a $900 stipend for required books and equipment will be made available to her each year. She is the daughter of Jon and Martha Campbell and a senior at North Montgomery High School.
“I am extremely blessed to have been named this year’s Montgomery County Lilly Endowment Community Scholar,” Sidney said after being notified. “It is such an honor to be supported by such a loving community, including my principals and counselors, coaches, teachers, family, friends, the congregation at Woodland Heights Christian Church, and the Montgomery County Community Foundation. I am undecided where I w