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U.S. and Vietnamese Universities are collaborating to build Vietnam's first Green Village
Learn how you can take part in this historic venture.
If your team was given US $1,000,000 to design and help transform Qui Nhon into Viet Nam's first "Green Village"...what would be your plan?
The Qui Nhon Practicum "Green Village Challenge 2010" (QNPGVC) is a historic collaboration between the Republic of Viet Nam, the University of Hawaii-Manoa, Columbia University, M.I.T., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, University of California at Irvine, 3rd Rock Development Company LLC, and the project's international partners and supporters that offers students from five schools a service learning course that provides a structured and supportive format for students to apply policy, design and environmental and economic principles learned in the classroom to the real world of people and policy as they help to build Viet Nam's first
"Green Village."
Students will utilize environmental technology and community building skills to help transform Qui Nhon, a small village along the South Central coast of Viet Nam, into a model for sustainable urban planning and positive socio-economic growth. This practicum will work with local and national authorities to address some of the unique challenges of building a sustainable economy in a region with a range of development choices in front of it. Issues to be addressed are likely to be of interest to planning and other students focused on tourism development, coastal planning, environmental planning, social development, public administration, and regional economic development.
The Green Village Challenge 2010 is more than just an environmentally friendly or "green" development-it's an engine for local economic growth; a catalyst for local green development; a locus point for community collaboration and participation; and a community resource.
