Colin Joern Named RE-Volv Solar Ambassador

2018 Apr 16

Through the national nonprofit RE-volv and its solar ambassadors program, Colin Joern is among the 15 University of Dayton students who have launched a crowdfunding campaign to raise funds for an 11.5 kW solar installation to move Dayton's Mission of Mary Cooperative closer to its goal of running entirely on renewable energy. Watch video.

With two weeks left in the campaign, the students have helped raise a little more than $18,000, or about 58 percent of the goal. Donors can contribute to the project here. Donations, which the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation currently is matching dollar for dollar, are tax deductible.

RE-volv is an inaugural member of the White House National Community Solar Partnership and a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Catalyst program Business Innovation Award.

Mission of Mary Cooperative, the only lay-Marianist founded, operated and funded nonprofit organization in the country, works in East Dayton on issues of food and economic social justice, especially healthy food affordability and access. The cooperative also farms at Lincoln Hill Gardens, a site in the Twin Towers Neighborhood developed in partnership with the University of Dayton Hanley Sustainability Institute and East End Community Services that has produced nearly 2 tons of food in the last two years for 80 families plus more sold at local markets.