1-800-LAW-F I R M

Renderings of the 1-800-Law-Firm building green plans

greenhouse gas emissions.
Before working on PACE, Levin
served as deputy, then acting director
of the Michigan Department of Energy,
Labor and Economic Growth. For 30
years, the graduate of Williams College,
Harvard Law School and the University of
Michigan has repeatedly dreamed up and
executed strategies that combine public
policy, business, labor and social change.
He says nearly half the energy used in
the United States ($202 billion worth,
according to the U.S. Energy Information

Administration) helps heat, cool and light
our buildings, but 30 percent of it is inef-
ficient or unnecessary.
"This is a real opportunity to help com-
panies tackle that waste problem:' Levin
said. "When you turn these clean energy
projects into a no-money-down, cash-
flow-positive deal for the property owner,
it's very beneficial. There's no taxpayer
money involved. At this time, when the
question of what to do about energy poli-
cy may seem controversial in Washington,
D.C., and Lansing — and there's a lot of

disagreement and fighting between politi-
cal parties — my hope is that PACE can be
something everyone agrees on to greatly
reduce our energy use and produce a lot
more renewable resources:'
For-profit and nonprofit businesses and
buildings of all kinds are eligible to par-
ticipate. Improvements can include insula-
tion, heating and cooling systems, water
use reduction, biomass, solar, wind and
other types of renewable energy. For more
information, go to leanandgreenmi.com
or call (248) 808-1420. n

Newly Named Ford CEO
To Keynote JVS Event
Ford Motor Company COO Mark
Fields, who will take over as CEO July
1, will give the keynote address at JVS's
17th annual Strictly Business network-
ing and awards luncheon on June 12 at
The Henry hotel in Dearborn.
More than 700
business and com-
munity leaders are
expected to attend
this dynamic event
to hear Fields speak.
Event-goers will also
hear from Jacques
Mark Fields
Panis, president of
Shinola, the 2014
JVS Business Leadership award winner,
and Max Surnow, co-founder of Cooper
Street Cookies, who will receive the
2014 JVS Rising Entrepreneur Award.
The Strictly Business luncheon is a
fundraiser to support JVS in its efforts
to put metro Detroiters back to work.
For sponsorship or ticket information,
visit www.jvsdet.org/strictlybiz or con-
tact Judy Strongman at jstrongman@
jvsdet.org or (248) 233-4213.

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